We wanted to be at the airport at around 6 :30 AM in order to get all of our luggage into the airport and checked in with plenty of time. My parents (in from South America), my Brother (in from Maine), my Sister (in from the Philippines), and Misty and Andy (in from Hartland, WI) were able to spend the night in a hotel in Chicago. Casey, Jenny, Levi and Tigue (read Ty) joined us for the evening and we ordered in Pizza from Giordannos to enjoy one last time before leaving.
In the morning we all went to the airport together and spent our last hours together before our departure. We shed our share of tears as we headed through security and waved good-bye to our families who were there to send us off. God allowed us to go through the security rather quickly, so that was a real blessing. Our first flight was delayed by about an hour. It was nice that we had 4 hours scheduled for our layover in Dulles, so the delay did not affect our connecting flight to Senegal. We had planned on going out through security to see Jenny’s Uncle who came to the airport at our layover, but after arriving late, we got nervous about going out and getting back in through security with enough time.
The flight was rather uneventful, which is generally a good thing! We did not all sleep, but some of us were able to sleep, so that was good. Thank you so much for praying for us, we are so blessed to have a team of people praying for us.
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