Adventures Traveling to Hungary

WE MADE IT TO HUNGARY!!! HOORAY! Thank you so much for your prayers! We literally felt them and inspite of a wild trip, there was a very real sense of the Presence of Jesus the whole way. We almost missed the flight in Chicago to London...then security in London did not like our carry-ons so we had to go out immigration, check our "extra" bag and then go back through security before we finally made our flight to Budapest. It was delayed so our family as very anxious for us to arrive...but arrive we did and promptly slept eleven hours last night!

The most horrific but hysterical part of the journey was concerning one of our action packer trunks. It was "slightly" over weight and while packing it, we had been cautious to use only the handles on either end. While checking it in Cincinnati, the kind sky cap grabbed the middle handle and promptly broke off a huge chunk of the front of our trunk. Not just the handle, an entire chunk of the plastic trunk ripped open!!!

Overwhelmed...we debated what to do in between tears and laughs and after finding a role of duck tape and several bungie cords, we prayed over it and sent it on its way. Well, it arrived...minus two of the cords and in a huge plastic bag which miracleously held it together. When we opened the plastic bag, we realized the trunk had literally broken into pieces and the above picture is our witness. Fortunately we think everything made it, although Joanna's tennis shoes were scrapped from where the trunk had been drug across the concrete. Hilarious and Terrible all at the same time.

We are so thankful to Jesus to be here and for His merciful grace. We are short one bag which did not make it but hopefully it will turn up. We love you all dearly and are excited to be in the journey! Hallalejuh! Praise God Forever!