We made it!

Anyone following the travel drama on Facebook or Twitter last night knows that we had quite an adventure getting here.

Reminiscent of a recent trip I had from Seattle for work a week and a half before, the plane that was supposed to take us to Prague for our connecting flight to Tallinn did not show up to the gate, and our flight to Prague was delayed out multiple times for "maintenance" reasons.  This was causing us a little bit of concern because we only really had a 2 hour layover scheduled in Prague - good if your flights are on time, but in the situation we found ourselves in a little nerve racking.

Eventually, Delta pulls a "new" (one of us commented that it may have been the original Delta 767 plane purchased from Boeing) plane out to fly us to Prague and we eventually take off at 8:15pm (or 2 1/2 hours after we were scheduled to leave).  From that point, and my Facebook status of "pray for us!", we knew that our chances of catching our original connection were somewhere between "slim" and "none."  But we trusted that God would enable us to get there, and I knew from experience that what we think of as "Plan B" in many times is God's "Plan A" because he isn't so much concerned about our smooth travel as in our trusting completely in Him.

Anyways - short story.  I fall asleep and wake up about an hour before we land in Prague.  We land at the airport exactly 15 minutes before our Tallinn flight is scheduled to take off, and it takes us a long time to get off the plane.  With the walking through the airport and having to go through security, I'm looking forward to day full of airports and strange transfer flights.  And then we walk off the plane....

And greeting us is a cute little blonde Czech girl from the airline with a sign reading "Tallinn 9" with an escort from Czech Airways that tells us to follow him and he'll get us to our flight.  He gives us passes to rush us through security and Czech Airways holds the flight for us, and we board our scheduled flight to Tallinn.  The pilot did mention as they were taking off:  "Sorry about the delay, we held the flight because some Americans were late."  Ha Ha.  Good times.

An hour and a half later, we are meeting Innar in Tallinn.  Okay, we do not have our bags, but who cares about bags... we are in ESTONIA... ON TIME... AS SCHEDULED.  Based on Delta's delays and my recent history, this should not have happened.

Now you can't tell me that God doesn't have something awesome cooked up for us at this camp!

So, anyways we finish our day with a BBQ at Craig Hamner's house and right now I'm writing this blog from Daniel's house and am about to shower and get some much needed rest.  We are going through training for the camp tomorrow and on Sunday will be starting our adventure.  I'm excited!

Now, all that needs to happen is for our bags to arrive tomorrow :-).