47 hours and 45 minutes of travel time finally brought Nathan, Kathy, Graham, Abigail, Joy, Esther, Elijah, Isaac, and Graham back home! The top photo is a selfie that Kathy took last night on their layover in Honolulu. They had four flights—Manilla to Guam, Guam to Honolulu, Honolulu to Denver, and finally Denver to Nashville. The amazing thing to me was how on time or even slightly ahead of schedule each of their flights were. On their trip back they had longer layovers at each airport which added several hours onto the time it took for them to get to the Philippines. The trip there "only" took 42 hours. I imagine they will all be very happy to crawl into bed tonight. Kathy told them they had to stay up to at least 6pm! Wonder if that worked!
They immediately began the task of unpacking. they had to get the wash started as the three teens have a church weekend away planned.
Interesting things pop out of their suitcases...like these unicycle parts!
The children all had fun souvenirs bought with pesos while they were there. They also had some fun bringing some Hawaiian souvenirs home. I even got something from Hawaii since I never got my trip there! (Woody and I had one planned when we lived in California many years ago, but Woody ended up getting word that he was going to be transferred back to Tullahoma for work so the house we bought when we moved back here became "our Hawaii.")
It's good to have them back. I'm sure I will be hearing some interesting tales over the next days. It sounds like they all had a very good mission trip.
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