Made it safely home, after a long day of travel. Right now it is midnight in Detroit, Michigan. We are at a Hampton Inn cause we thought we would be exhausted, and not able to drive home. If you ask Nick, he'll tell you I'm already a great driver, and I'd probably be an even better driver with ZERO hours of sleep.
But... we are in the USA!
Long and stressful day of travel. We arrived at Warsaw airport at 10 am, our plan left at 12:10pm. 2 hours, plently of time... Wrong! The place was packed, about 1,000 people all trying to check-in through 1 gate. It was a disaster.
Nick and I just calmly (who's kidding there) watched the clock.
You know me I can't sit for a minute, so I am running all over, trying to be real nice and get people to let us cut in line, as it is now noon. Finally someone takes us seriously, and passes us through. We check in and guess what... no surprise, (as it happened on the way here) Nick's bag is overweight.
With 2 minutes till our plane leaves, I tear open his suitcase, and start pulling stuff out. I'm thinking we'll put the extra stuff in his already jammed backpack. You know, the backpack that we searched all over town for yesterday, cause he knew he would be overweight.
Ends up, here I am in the airport throwing clothing everywhere. (not sure what Nick is doing now... maybe checking to be sure his vudka didn't break in his suitcase)
Ends up the clothes that I am tearing out of Nick's suitcase, and jamming into the backpack, is his underwear. Poor Nick, his drawers were already all over the airport before he realized what I was doing.
Well, finally his bag was only 3 pounds over and they let him slide.
Long story short, with sweat pouring off our bodies, and after we ticked everyone off by cutting through customs and security, as we are in a huge hurry. We get to the gate, and of course... 1 hour delay.
It took me about the entire 9 hour flight to get calmed down.
BUT... we made it!
That's not all, I won't even get onto the drama in Chicago where we were not able to bring our sealed alcohol bottles on the plane, they had to be checked. No problem, we'll put them in one of our carry-ons, check it, and be good to go.
Umm... no. It has to be a hard cased suitcase, so these grown men and their vodka decide that they will go to another bag checker in-er, and just "not mention what's inside"
Jeeezzzz... Isn't Nick the one who says I push the limits, and have to test everything and everyone.
It is 1:15am here in MI, which is 7:15am in Poland, the time I have been used to for the last 12 days. Maybe I should go to bed.... probably a good idea.
I think this jet-leg thing may hit me hard... Yet, I have all these plans for tomorrow, clean the offices, see my family...
Can't wait to see Tyler, my newest nephew. In his pictures, he reminds me alot of baby Ali, and Marsha's boys. I'll have to take baby pictures with me to compare. I'm so excited to meet that sweet boy, he is perfect.
Warning to Richard.... yes, I will be in tears when I come over. It will be one of those menatl pictures that you'll have to file in the "Crazy Kristy" file of your brain!
Nick and I reflected on our trip... we are speachless. Amazing trip. Amazing country. Amazing God we have. What an experience. I take for granted all I have, even my job, of course. Yet, I see, this is God's plan, he reigns over everything. Even though I had the biggest stress of my life (almost missing our plane) I see now that He was in control and always is. I need to remember that I am not in control all the time. As my Mother Dearest says: "The Lord has a Plan!"
Love you, See you all in 10 - 12 hours! Praise God for safety and for his beautiful creation. His work is unbelievable! Our God is an Awesome God!!!
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