A Day in the 'Fair City'


Believe it or not the best route (and least expensive) for us to go back to the states was through Dublin, Ireland. So, on Wednesday morning with about two hours sleep, we headed out of Edinburgh en route to Dublin


We checked into out hotel, got a little rest and then headed into the ‘Fair City’ on a quest for some good music, souvenirs and of course a pint of Kilkenny. We were successful on all accounts and had a great time even though we were dog tired. Actually one of our goals was to see the Book of Kells at Trinity College but we were too late as they just closed right before we got there. I think he saw us coming and raced to lock the doors. Actually even if it were still open we wouldn’t have paid to see it as they were charging 8 Euros to get in.

Well after a great night sleep at the Tulip Hotel, we headed to the airport and took off from Dublin around 11:15am. For the most part the flight was good but we did have some turbulence. I wasn’t enjoying that particular aspect of the journey as my imagination begins to go wild thinking of all kinds of potential catastrophes all the while putting on the, this is no big deal face for the kids. Actually, they thought it was fun like they were riding on a roller coaster or something. All I could think of was, how much stress are these planes designed to handle and I wonder how old this plane is.

Well the plane held up just fine and we landed smoothly at JFK in New York at exactly 1:01pm. We were scheduled to land at 1:00pm but I decided I would (being a Christian) extend them some grace and not complain.

To be continued…

Our Stuff is Packed and We're on Our Way Home...

This was the scene on Friday as some of our goods friends here came out to help us load the container. Since we had a somewhat multicultural team here, we decided to assign them roles that would go along with their geo-stereotypes and it worked to perfection.

We had Frank the German in the truck making sure everything was organised so that it would fit perfectly and it did. Amazing job by Frank as I'm still sitting here in utter amazement that all of our stuff fit in there. Then we had a few Americans telling everybody what to do and a Scot and Pa Dutch team letting us know how we could do this much cheaper. Oh and Pastor David who kept us all in prayer and no one was hurt and we filled the truck with 15 mins. to spare.

Thanks again to: Frank and Becky (Becky is an admin. master who typed out our whole inventory in a few mins. which would taken me a whole day), Gary who kept us laughing and thinking with his great sense of humor and keen insights, Pastor David who kept encouraging, praying and working hard (reminded me of Nehemiah rebuilding the wall), Dave for his never ending enthusiasm, energy and creativity and great sense of humor, Louise for looking after the kids while all this was going on. You all are amazing and we will always remember you and miss you greatly.