Sunday, June 24, 2007

Up at 3:20 a.m. to check in for our flight, which we discovered was postponed. Had we taken that flight, we would have missed our connecting flight in Florida. So Martires and Vonda worked with the ticket agents to get us on entirely different flights. We flew Delta out of Santo Domingo into Atlanta, Georgia, where we went through Customs, then American Airlines to Chicago, Illinois. Dilio and Martires stayed with us at the airport as long as they could, but they had another team waiting for them. We prayed for them – they’re scheduled with back-to-back teams for a month, and Dilio’s family lives too far away to come into Santo Domingo while he’s there.

We planned to take the Van Galder bus from Chicago to Madison, but Lynn’s husband, Kent, and their son and his wife, Reed and Becca, drove down in vans to take us home. He said: “My wife and daughter are two hours away and I’m going to wait for them to ride a bus? I don’t think so!”