One last view of Brazil on the way to the airport. Notice the donkeys grazing in front of the gas station!!!
We flew over the Amazon river and forest - it is AMAZING!!! God's world is so beautiful!!!
That's us on our way to Miami. It's an 8 hour flight from Recife to Miami. We arrived in Miami around 7pm and by the time we went through customs (long line) it was about 8:30. We went straight from the airport to the hotel, ate a snack and had a very restless sleep. Will was very concerned about missing the morning flight so he was waking me up every hour in a panic - by the end of our trip we were just alittle bit paranoid about having cockroches in our room at night. At that point I was so tired that I really didn't care if we spent an extra day in Miami :)>. We got up at 4:45 for our morning flight and I was thankful that we were able to lay horizontal for a few hours as opposed to sitting in an airplane all night.
More of the Amazon.
The airport in Houston was pretty cool - wouldn't you like to have a lollipop that big?
I do believe that here we are arriving in Vancouver and that's the Richmond
delta down there on your right. You can see the airport in the middle of the shot.
Will was fascinated with the airbrakes and flaps as we landed.
At this point I always breathe a sigh of relief. If you crash from only 100 feet up - one could survive yes??
Almost down!! Almost home!!! Can't wait to see the kids again!!!
Yippee!!! Safe and sound - Thank you LORD for all your care and guidance in such a BIG trip.
What a blessing it was!!!
I bought similar souvenir shirts for Nadia and her partner in crime.
Nadia was confused when we first picked her up and didn't know us at all - it took three days for her to want to nurse again. Somebody warned me that that would happen so I was expecting it and planned for it in my mind - that was good because otherwise I would have been devastated. It just showed me how well she was taken care of and loved - Thank you so much Alice!! For nursing, eventually I just shoved her on and hoped for the best :). I cried when she nursed that first time because it was tender sweet to reconnect with her in that way. It was also good for me to pump in Brazil - I did it two times a day and that gave me time to relax, think or pray for the kids. It helped me to feel connected to them, Nadia mostly, when we were so many miles away from each other. I'm still nursing her months later and I'm really happy about that :).
Well, that concludes our trip to Brazil - I have some more pictures to go through from Suzanna yet - she is an excellent photographer so hers have more artistic flare than ours and a different perspective - I'll be publishing some of those in the summer (once I've caught up around here).
I think I've said everything I want to say about the trip but one thing is definitely worth repeating.
We could NOT have done this trip on our own strength and we could NOT have felt so safe when in fact the places we were in were very unsafe if the LORD had not been with us. His Spirit guided us and gave us peace every step of the way. If you were one of the saints praying for us I thank you from the bottom of my heart. We could feel those prayers and we experienced the good ness of the LORD because of them.
This trip strengthened my faith in ways that I could never have imagined. With faith you can move mountains!!! Not of my own doing of course but out of God's eternal grace. Three years ago my health was soo bad that it seemed impossible to see a future on this earth. Fear of almost everything took over. I still fight those fears but through Christ I can conquer them, have conquered them and will continue to conquer them. I know this is true.
I am very thankful for spiritual and physical healing that have allowed Will and I to be a blessing to others in the church and in the world.
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