I have been humming “Delta Dawn” all day it seems, thanks to Alisa’s wonderful Auntie who sang it to us as we drove to the airport at around 5 am this morning, in preparation for our flight to Salt Lake City and then Cincinnati. (Yes, 5 am, and I was up at 3:50, followed shortly by the others!) We stayed with her uncle and aunt in Kent, along with their son Nolan and had a great time with them!
First of all, we made it! And it is so great so far! Just thought I’d get that out of the way.
We had a semi-long travel day, but overall it wasn’t too bad. I was surprised to see that many people are up bright and early, at 5:30 am on a Saturday to fly out of SEATAC… but we made it to our terminal with a few minutes to spare and boarded our plane to SLC. You may be wondering why I was selected to write this entry. Well. Let me tell you!
On our flight to SLC, we were all spread out because we pretty much got the last tickets for that flight. I happened to have seat 7F, strategically placed next to an attractive young man! Just my luck. Well, the whole flight went well, and in about the last 15 minutes, I fell asleep, which is really unusual for me. Before I knew it we had landed, but not so smoothly. As we basically “hit” the ground, I was startled awake and in the process grabbed the upper thigh of the poor, attractive guy sitting next to me. He jumped and gave me quite a look, and I apologized profusely and tried to cover up my embarrassment. Needless to say that seemed like the longest taxi to the terminal I have ever had ☺
Aside from that embarrassing episode, we had a good time getting here to Ohio!
Oh, and God takes care of everything ☺ For our second flight, Monica didn’t have an assigned seat and we were a little scared because they said there was no extra spots, “especially in row 25”; but the second time we went up there, they had a seat for her, 25F, just a couple away from us. God is good, even in the small things.
The beautiful Cincinnati skyline greeted us as April, the youth pastor’s wife, drove us to their home. I had Chick-fil-a for the first time (yum!), and saw many other places I want to try (like Panera Bread!). We are excited to hang out with the Taylor’s kids as well as Marley, the little girl of Ben and Joanna who are mine and Monica’s host family for the week. They are so sweet already, I feel very at home here.
Tomorrow we will be teaching Sunday school, each of us giving a testimony on either prayer – perseverance – praise – pain. I am excited to see what God has in store for us with these kids and for our hearts in general. Pray that the kids will be excited, have open ears, and that we will be excited to serve them and the community of Cincinnati! Thanks for reading!
In Him,
Dana
You'll love Panera it is the bomb, as for the boy he may never fly again. (Is that why they call it the friendly skies...who knew?)
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