We're in Turrialba!

I will write about our day later, but I wanted to let everyone know that we've arrived safely in Turrialba.  We got here around 2:30 and we're just settling in.  We'll be leaving in a little bit to explore the town, get ice cream, search for hammocks, etc.

The wifi was down at the hotel last night and this morning, so I didn't get a chance to update on the game.  WOW!  What an experience!  These students are going to remember this for the rest of their lives.

We found the game in English after halftime.  The satellite gets the ABC station from Miami, so we could listen to the commentary.  The feed, however, was on a 10 second delay from the Spanish language ESPN.  We kept watching in Spanish and didn't have to understand the language to know what was going on: we won the championship.  WE. WON. THE. CHAMPIONSHIP.

We were gathered in our rooms and as the game went on, no one was sitting: we were all huddled around the TV.  You could hear the screams of excitement when we hit the three at the end (I have no idea who made it- LeBron?  The TV screen was so small I couldn't even tell), when they missed their shots, when LeBron got fouled.  There was an absolute UPROAR when the final buzzer sounded.  Mrs. Wooden and I screamed and hugged each other.  The boys sprinted out of their room and jumped into the pool.  I cried.  And cried. And cried.  All of us were overcome with emotion in our own way.  It felt like a dream: was this really happening?  We all believed it could, now it finally did.  WE DID IT.

I hope that everyone in Cleveland had fun last night and stayed safe!  What a great moment for our city!