The Day Before
We survived the "day before."
1. When we called to confirm our flight (48 hours in advance), the automated recording said our flight left yesterday! Ouch!!! When we got to a real person, he explained (very nicely) that the flight is a daily one and each day the flight is the same number, but we are indeed booked for the flight today, Wednesday. (Lower blood pressure here.)
2. The United representative explained that our ticket names needed to match our passports. Ooops! Passports match birth certificates. So what about Jose (on his driver's license), and Lori (on my driver's license?!) It worked fine for domestic flights, but my passport name is Glorilyn and his is Lance. So we got that taken care of. Luckily, they could have charged $100 for a change. (Lower blood pressure here. Thank YOU for your prayers!!!!!)
3. When we got everything in our luggage, we had room to spare (surprise!) but each piece was overweight by 10 pounds. Ouch! Its those darn textbooks that do it. (Loralee, could you please speak to text book companies, thank you?!) Also my files. I had gone through every lecture and put in handouts used in previous classes. Paper is heavy!!! Also we took our printer/fax/copier and two laptops. We HOPE we will be ok at the airport. Lloyd will come with us and take back whatever is overweight, or maybe we'll see Aaron, our son-in-law, who is flying out of Boston 3 hours later than we are, and we can talk him into bringing us the excess?
4. Teri McCarthy, the IICS staff, who helped with my placement, called me to pray together yesterday. I feel spiritually ready, am sure we have forgotten something we wish we had taken, but we are ready to stay up all night tonight, arriving a little before midnight in Frankfurt, a 3 hour layover, then an hour to Prague! Our landlord has arranged for Vladimir to be there with a Wiley sign to meet us and take us to the apartment. Tomorrow morning in Prague!
5. Dad and I spent a couple of hours together yesterday. I'm going to miss him, and he won't even know I'm gone!!!
1. When we called to confirm our flight (48 hours in advance), the automated recording said our flight left yesterday! Ouch!!! When we got to a real person, he explained (very nicely) that the flight is a daily one and each day the flight is the same number, but we are indeed booked for the flight today, Wednesday. (Lower blood pressure here.)
2. The United representative explained that our ticket names needed to match our passports. Ooops! Passports match birth certificates. So what about Jose (on his driver's license), and Lori (on my driver's license?!) It worked fine for domestic flights, but my passport name is Glorilyn and his is Lance. So we got that taken care of. Luckily, they could have charged $100 for a change. (Lower blood pressure here. Thank YOU for your prayers!!!!!)
3. When we got everything in our luggage, we had room to spare (surprise!) but each piece was overweight by 10 pounds. Ouch! Its those darn textbooks that do it. (Loralee, could you please speak to text book companies, thank you?!) Also my files. I had gone through every lecture and put in handouts used in previous classes. Paper is heavy!!! Also we took our printer/fax/copier and two laptops. We HOPE we will be ok at the airport. Lloyd will come with us and take back whatever is overweight, or maybe we'll see Aaron, our son-in-law, who is flying out of Boston 3 hours later than we are, and we can talk him into bringing us the excess?
4. Teri McCarthy, the IICS staff, who helped with my placement, called me to pray together yesterday. I feel spiritually ready, am sure we have forgotten something we wish we had taken, but we are ready to stay up all night tonight, arriving a little before midnight in Frankfurt, a 3 hour layover, then an hour to Prague! Our landlord has arranged for Vladimir to be there with a Wiley sign to meet us and take us to the apartment. Tomorrow morning in Prague!
5. Dad and I spent a couple of hours together yesterday. I'm going to miss him, and he won't even know I'm gone!!!
posted by Pastor Lori Wiley at 7:01 AM
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