Wow, what an incredible 27 hours!!
A van ride, 3 airplanes, a train, and a bus ride later we arrived to our hotel at around 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, Switz time. We are 7 hours ahead of eastern standard time (usually 6 hrs. but they started their daylight savings time this past Sunday).
Thanks to all who are praying. It was a very long and trying day with ups and downs.
We were blessed with the plane in Detroit waiting for our delayed flight so that we could make the connection.
We were blessed with each seat on our long flight having an “on demand” in seat personal video system with many videos, music, and games to choose from. Our girls started with watching Sound of Music (their favorite movie). It made it even better, because at the end of the movie the VonTrap family fled over the hills of Austria into SWITZERLAND!! The girls loved that we were going there too and want to twirl and sing in the hills tomorrow.
We were blessed with very helpful team mates who loved on our girls.
We were blessed by smooth travel and a very helpful steward on our final flight.
Some of our trials were a late flight to start with, the older two girls getting about 3 or 4 hours of sleep in a 28 hour period (we had MELTDOWN on our train ride! God was good in helping us give grace and patience to the girls), phils guitar got cracked, one of our suitcases busted and spilled out on the baggage people, 3 or 4 bags of our team mates were lost and should be delivered tomorrow by 9.
Our accomadations are really nice here and we are blessed by some kids play areas in which our girls are already making good friends with the other children here. Much to look forward to and now that the girls are nestled in their beds asleep, things seem to even feel better. So I am off now to do some sleeping myself.
Some great pictures, I’ll post them tomorrow!
Good night!
Yea God that it’s all behind you! Sorry to hear about the luggage struggles, (and lack of sleep struggles!) We will continue to pray, and my MPACT group will be praying for their “prayer partners” tonight in your Switzer Land youth group. I am going to pray for Seth and Sean
(easy to remember!) Love you guys!
Wow! Sounds like you had a real experience just getting there. Glad you finally made it, and hope you all get some rest. I hope my “Yankee” granddaughters get to “swirl and twirl” on the mountaintops there like in the movie.
My best to all of you! – Grampy
Glad to hear most of the travel went well.
Thanks for your prayer calendar we are using it as a family to pray for you each day.
Praise God for your safe arrival and providing the blessing of the plane waiting for you all to make the connection. Looking forward to those pictures. Addie and Emma, have fun twirling and singing in the mountains. Will continue praying for the team.
Love, Grandma
We have been anxiously waiting to hear of your safe arrival. Praise God. I hope you get videos of those beautiful little girls twirling and swirling on the hills. What memories. Love to all from the church office.