Well everyone, things have not gone as planned.  We left Friday from Nashville for a 1hr and 45min flight to JFK.  Along came a storm and camped on top of JKF.  We were in the plan over 3 hours.  It was so long, we had to land in Harrodsburg, Pennsylvania.  Every flight was stopped going into JFK. You can only imagine the Chaos.  I stood in line in Harrodsburg at the Delta counter the entire time almost.  I did manage to re-book us a flight.  But the agent didn’t have time to print the tickets he handed me a old school in-house print out.  We had to get our flight orders re-issued by the FAA.  We got in the air somewhere after 10 pm last night.  By the time we got off the plan in JFK around 11:30 pm …our flight for Paris was gone:(  So you can imagine the chaos at JFK with all the missed flights.   When we got there…we went into survival mode…for our flight to Paris was not going to leave until Sunday.  Jon went to the car rental place…and his wife started looking for us a hotel.  All the hotels were booked around the airport.  What does a Kentucky team do?  Luggage…yeah, about that, it never came to the carousel.  We checked the baggage tracker and some of them said Paris on them, wow.  I went to the office for baggage issues and they said if we want the luggage…it would take 3 to 4 hours to request them…if they were there…really!!!  I was told it would meet us there. It was 3 am in the morning.  I also tried to negotiate our tickets again, but no luck.  Everyone remember, hundreds of people are in line everywhere.  So about 4 am, we have our carry-ons and some instruments and two rental cars.  The iphones and GPS were going over time to try and find a hotel.  We learned that NYC is a busy place on the weekend, and the hundreds of missed flights didn’t help.

So we drove all around NYC…let me tell you Manhatten early in the morning…scary.  The freaks come out at night.  It is also very expensive for hotels in New York.  I am used to paying $100 for an awesome hotel…here, jump up to the $200 range:(

We finally found a hotel in Westbury…an hour a way.  So 5:45 am on Saturday we finally got in bed…what a day.

Now seven hours later and with a five hour power nap…I have been on the phone with Delta for over 2 hours.  For you see they booked us a flight to Paris that had a 30 minute layover to catch our next flight.  Eight people to get baggage, go through customs, and switch terminals in an international airport, not possible.  You think they would have caught this.  So here I wait.

Everyone on our team has been troopers.  We are safe.  We did sleep.  Eating…well, that will come.  I praise the Lord for some great people he sent our way.  Diane at Viana Hotel in Westbury.  She was so kind to us.  She gave us all toothbrushes and some personal items.  Veronica at Delta…she is working hard to find us options to get there quicker.

Be praying for us strength, we got a long way to go.  Pray for health, this kind of force marching can wear a person down. Pray for us to find a cheap place to buy some clothes.

The missionary told us that Satan has been working hard to shut this trip down.  She said last time something like this happened, a team lost their luggage.  When it was delivered the missionary shared Christ with him and he accepted Christ.  That made me think…is this pain worth someone coming to Christ.  Yes it is.  May God receive the glory for this amazing adventure.