Things are coming together

Today we have passed two major hurdles! The first one was we received our passports! We only went down and turned the information for them a few weeks agO, and they are already here, in our posession! We were so concerned about hem getting here on time and the Lord was faithful yet again to our needs.

The second bit of information that we got was that the airfare is going to be the same price that was quoted to us back when we were putting together our fundraising letters. We should be able to book the flight next week!

Do you ever get the feeling that things are really just "falling into place"? I know that is a silly statement becuase God made all of this possible through his great power, but the feling remains... Maybe we are being sent here. It could just be that we are going to find peace about our current lives and learn to love it just the way it is, or maybe it is something more. Only time will tell.

Airfare

We recently found out that after a few more checks that we are expecting come in we will at last have enough funding to purchase our plane tickets. That is as long as the fares have not gone up due to all of the terrorist activity that has rocked London. Traveling internationally sure has gotten me a little more nervous after the bomb attempt hit the news for more ways than one! I am a little concerned about our safetly, but mostly I have been thinking about all of the new restrictions that are even tighter in England than they are here. The flights we are going to be on are very long. I really hope and pray that everything goes smothly and maybe a few restrictions will be a little lighter.

Dear Lord, thank you so much for your abundant blessings as we have been getting ready for this journey. Please continue preparing us for what lies ahead and be preparing our flight staff for a pleasant and safe trip. Help us to stay sane and calm if and when Jacob becomes restless during our long flights. Also, please give an extra measure of peace and patience to those souls who will be onboard our flights! We Love You!

New Report

Today has been a very productive day. We went this morning to receive our most-important shots for the trip. Then once that was finally over we headed out to the post office to turn in our passport applications.

We were a little nervous about the shots and how many we would all have to get. They were not even able to tell us how much the shots were going to be before out appointments! We arrived at the travel clinic and after a lengthy consultation (where the guy tried to scare the pants off of us about rabees) we found out that little Jacob would only have to receive 2 shots because of his tender age of 17 months, Billy would get 5 shots and I would come in the winner with a whopping 6 shots. Jacob went first so he wouldn't have to watch us get multiple shots before his turn, and he did great. He cried for about 5 minutes and then watched in horror as we both got our shots. Just so you know, it does hurt worse to get a lot of shots, the first one didn't hurt at all, but as she kept going in the same arm, in generally the same spot for three turns it began to get painful! I am glad Billy happened to turn Jacob away because I made a face on the third and sixth injections.

Turning in the passport applications turned out to be a little bit of an ordeal as well because we had waited to long to do it. It is going to take 8 weeks for them to arrive (even though I read online that 6 weeks is enough time). We are cutting it dangerously close to our trip dates. It was either take our chances or pay $90 per passport to expedite the process. We obviously decided to take our chances, the clerk made it sound like the passports would not be late (she even projected the date of their arival at Sept 28th).

As you might imagine, getting that many shots at once can be very costly! The final bill at the clinic ended up being $1200! Since this cost was so high we are now waiting for $3000 more to come in before we are able to purchase our airline tickets. This may be a blessing in disguise because of the whole passport situation. We might end up pushing our leave date back a week. I'll let you know!

Thank you for your continuing prayers!