I made it to Poland!!!! …Not without an adventure along the way.
ODBC prayed with me and gave me a great send off. My parents brought me to the airport at 11:15AM, in plenty of time for the flight scheduled at 1:11 PM. Sue Graf came over and prayed with me and then the adventure truly began… The plane that we were going to be taking us to Newark was greeted by fire trucks…only told there was something up with the landing gear. My insider informed that it was a service light that came on. So they were going to use another plane…the attendant kept saying in 10 – 15 minutes we would start boarding…that turned into about 45 minutes. Needless to say we finally took off from the Rochester airport at 3:20 PM. I texted out prayer requests and appreciated all the prayers – I had a calm about it all. I was reading the book, Radical by David Platt, it was rather timely and I got some of my homework done. Thank goodness there was going to be a 3 hour layover in Newark. It turned out to be ½ hour and we were boarding the plane. Newark plane was also delayed about an hour due to weather conditions. That was reducing my time in Hamburg…or so I thought. On flight to Hamburg, I sat next to a nice German couple from Kiel and they made me laugh and also get out of my seat a few times…no swelling of the ankles! Then I follow the crowd because I thought I needed to pick up my suitcase and tired. Then realized the suitcases would go on and it would be a race to catch my flight. Needless to say…that flight went early and I missed it by 5 minutes (they would not hold the plane). So I got to go down to pick up my bags, rebook flight and wait. (Just wanted a little more time in Germany and FREE coffee!!) I was routed to Munich (hey, I was never at that airport). It was a bumpy flight from Hamburg to Munich. There were times where the plane felt like it dropped a few hundred feet a few times in a row.
Hey, Karl – like going over the railroad tracks maintaining the same speed…only this time I was more of a shock! Or I am getting old! LOL
Ended up paying to internet just to let Robert & Rachel know that I would not be on earlier flight and they might as well wait till 5 PM to pick me and the college guys (Beau, Keith and Travis) up.
So then I got to Warsaw around 4:15 PM (2:15 PM in Rochester) , but should have been there at 10:05 AM! After waiting a while at Terminal 2, I went over to Terminal 1… to be sure that I was not forgotten….and was tired of the taxi drivers asking if I needed a ride! Then saw Robert walk into Terminal 2, so I scooted back dragging the 2 suitcases in tow. Shortly after Rachel & the kids came and met their friend, Joe, who had a van to help us out and is involved in a ministry through another organization. We enjoyed dinner at the Hostel and got settled in. I am calling it a night…and looking forward to the fun of tomorrow!
I am so glad to be here! Tracy – your gifts were a great hit! John – Robert said the Polish people do not like the Polish jokes…they tolerate them because we think they have similar jokes about the Russians.
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with Thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” Phil. 4:6
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