Picures Report
Thursday evening we gathered at church to pray and send the team off.
Yes, you are reading that correclty, we were at the airport before 3am Mountain time,
we actually gat there just before 4am CDT.
We were really awake. Kristi was one of the few who joined me in not getting Starbucks. I think that it showed.
Houston, we have a problem.
Here Kristen, sarah P, Lindsey, Danny and Matt H. wait at the gate for the plane that we were hoping to be able to board,
and some of us went on that flight.....the next day.
Continental was really nice to put us up in a hotel and give us food vouchers. Here is the girls' room.
Jim and Sharon suffering and celebrating their 25th anniversary while we are stuck in Houston.
Houston Day 1 – July 20, 2007
Wow! What a Day!!! So to start off, we wake up at the hotel around 2:30am to get to the airport bright and early so we can stand in line for like an hour. We got through security fast enough for everyone to get Starbuck’s and then run to the plane! Literally! Run!
The first flight went smoothly, but we had to land in Louisiana to refuel and there was bad weather in Houston so we couldn’t land there for our lay over. The stop in Louisiana seemed like it went by pretty quick even though it was over an hour and then we headed off for Houston for our layover, where once again we had to run to our plane across the airport and because of the stop in Louisiana, we missed the plane headed to Costa Rica from Houston. That’s when things got complicated, so Eric and Catie talked with people in charge at the airport. While they did that the rest of us laid down by the terminal for about two hours playing catch phrase and making jewelry out of duct tape…and getting funny looks from people because we had matching shirts. But the strange looks got stranger when Eric and Catie told us that we had to stay overnight in Houston to fly out on Saturday and we all got really excited and sort of freaked outJ. The airlines paid for everyone to stay at the Marriot in Houston and for each of us to get $26 of food wherever would accept the certificates that they gave us.
This was quite the eventful day, and it seemed like the day went on and on. We all felt like we were eating a late dinner when we were really eating lunch at about 2pm. Then most of us went to the mall for about half an hour. After the mall, some people crashed in their rooms until dinner at 7:30, or when I got woken up by Danny banging on our door – I actually corrected him and said, “Don’t you mean breakfast?” because we had been up so long and then we went to bed, I actually thought Lindsey and I had slept all night and it was 7 in the morning.
While we ate our Chinese dinner we had a meeting, and it was so cool to realize that we dealt with the situation well. Nobody had bad attitudes towards the free food and free night in Houston. We all realized that for some reason God made this situation part of our trip, just He knew about it and we didn’t have a clue until it happened. We all had faith in God and trusted Him that for whatever reason this happened, it was His will and good will come out of it. We all totally could have been upset that we missed a full day and night in Costa Rica but instead we made the best out of what God had prepared for us…like some extra sleep that we all needed a lot! And the most comfortable beds we have ever slept in! I felt like I was in a cloud!
So this was quite the fun filled day…even though we we’re not in Costa Rica yet!
Love you all!
Kristen