Day 1 in Oaxaca
Well, we made it! This is our first morning in beautiful Oaxaca. We made it to Seattle fine on Thursday, but our flight to Houston was unable to land due to a thunderstorm. We diverted to San Antonia, sat on the plane for two hours, and finally left for Houston. We arrived to chaos (several planes had been stuck with us) and our flight to Oaxaca was either cancelled or gone. Long story short, we ended up at the biggest dive hotel for the night. Loren and Chris' room had blood on the wall...our room said "Kid Rock" on the mirror when it fogged up...it was impressive.
We went back to the airport the next day with the plan to catch a 11:30 pm flight. When we got there we discovered that the plane was very overbooked and we were on standby. At that point, we weren't sure that we'd get there before Sunday, when the rumor was that the next flight would leave. Then, HUGE miracle, seven people cancelled on a direct flight to Oaxaca. We were ON!! We spent all day Friday at the airport and hopped on a flight at 7, arrriving in Oaxaca last night at a little before 10. We stayed up late catching up with Nathan, had a sweet time of prayer in his backyard, and collapsed.
Today the plan is to check out downtown and all of the upheaval down there, try to find our luggage at the airport (did I say that we have NO luggage here?) and I'm not sure what else.
Thank you for all of your prayers. We are doing great, and ready to feel a little more like we're on a mission trip than "The Amazing Race". We'll be checking email a couple times here, so keep us posted on your lives. Keep lifting us up!
We went back to the airport the next day with the plan to catch a 11:30 pm flight. When we got there we discovered that the plane was very overbooked and we were on standby. At that point, we weren't sure that we'd get there before Sunday, when the rumor was that the next flight would leave. Then, HUGE miracle, seven people cancelled on a direct flight to Oaxaca. We were ON!! We spent all day Friday at the airport and hopped on a flight at 7, arrriving in Oaxaca last night at a little before 10. We stayed up late catching up with Nathan, had a sweet time of prayer in his backyard, and collapsed.
Today the plan is to check out downtown and all of the upheaval down there, try to find our luggage at the airport (did I say that we have NO luggage here?) and I'm not sure what else.
Thank you for all of your prayers. We are doing great, and ready to feel a little more like we're on a mission trip than "The Amazing Race". We'll be checking email a couple times here, so keep us posted on your lives. Keep lifting us up!
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