Jan 25, 2010 - We arrived in Santo Domingo late last night and spent the night at Hostal Bella Epoca. We had a short, post-breakfast meeting this morning on security and a briefing on the latest updates on our set-up in Haiti.

The group awoke refreshed this morning. Morale is great and we are all looking forward to getting to work.

Not to jinx us, but things have gone amazingly well so far. All of our personal and supply bags arrived. No major delays at airports. Our local organization, Endeavor, has been instrumental in helping arrange everything. Gracias!

A special thank you to US Airways officials who really were very helpful in helping us get all our things on the aircraft. Thank you!

Also, we appreciate the help from Dominican officials who assisted us through the airport upon our arrival in the Dominican Republic.

In a few minutes we will head out by bus to the Haitian border where we will spend the night in order to enter Haiti early in the morning during daylight hours. We will update the blog this evening or tomorrow depending on Internet service.

Thanks to all of our loved ones at home and to all those who have supported us through this endeavor.

JM

Dr. Jeff M. Mjaanes
Adult and Pediatric Sports Medicine
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics & Orthopaedic Surgery
Rush University Medical Center