Friday, December 15, 2006
We are home! Safe and sound
Thank you for all your prayers for the logistics and travel.
Daniel managed to get out of Australia and back into the US with his slightly mangled passport (its been through the laundry a couple times), after only minor delays. Not one of our bags missed the layover or got lost in transit. None of us got stopped for inspection by customs (even though some of us declared that we were bringing food in the country!).
Michelle was there and waiting to pick us up by the time we got through customs. We hadn't heard back (via email) whether she knew she was picking us up, and had been sending emails to her (and our) friend Mary to get ahold of Michelle and let here know. As luck would have it, Friday is her day off. She wouldn't have been able to come if we'd arrived a day earlier or a day later. And borrowing the van got worked out at the 11th hour, 9:00 the night before! But it all worked out on God's timing, and he's prepared even when we "should have" been more prepared ourselves.
And cool bonus blessing when we stopped to use the restroom and to get some drive-through breakfast (on the way home) we couldn't have picked a better spot--at that exact exit was the only known grocery store in two counties with a persian deli, giving Michelle the treat of having time to pick up some Persian take-out to take home with her while everyone else got their breakfast burritos and whatnot!
It was with sadness we said goodbye to each other--to Lia and Diana at LAX and then everyone else back at school a couple hours later...but a happy reunion to see the team members at school and our friends and family.
The weirdest thing about being back is driving on the right side of the road again!
Daniel managed to get out of Australia and back into the US with his slightly mangled passport (its been through the laundry a couple times), after only minor delays. Not one of our bags missed the layover or got lost in transit. None of us got stopped for inspection by customs (even though some of us declared that we were bringing food in the country!).
Michelle was there and waiting to pick us up by the time we got through customs. We hadn't heard back (via email) whether she knew she was picking us up, and had been sending emails to her (and our) friend Mary to get ahold of Michelle and let here know. As luck would have it, Friday is her day off. She wouldn't have been able to come if we'd arrived a day earlier or a day later. And borrowing the van got worked out at the 11th hour, 9:00 the night before! But it all worked out on God's timing, and he's prepared even when we "should have" been more prepared ourselves.
And cool bonus blessing when we stopped to use the restroom and to get some drive-through breakfast (on the way home) we couldn't have picked a better spot--at that exact exit was the only known grocery store in two counties with a persian deli, giving Michelle the treat of having time to pick up some Persian take-out to take home with her while everyone else got their breakfast burritos and whatnot!
It was with sadness we said goodbye to each other--to Lia and Diana at LAX and then everyone else back at school a couple hours later...but a happy reunion to see the team members at school and our friends and family.
The weirdest thing about being back is driving on the right side of the road again!
