Thursday morning we head to Memphis. My sister, Cortney, helped us out by driving us to the airport. It was during that drive that we started realizing how much I had left behind. Sheesh. I will confess now - I AM A PROCRASTINATOR. For those of you who have known me for longer than a day, you know this to be true. I am good at it. In college I could pull together a 10 page paper the night before and get a better grade than if I did it a week out (no lie). My adrenaline rush keeps me focused on the finish line I guess. For that reason alone, I should have known that having the luggage laid out in the hallway for 3 weeks before hand wouldn't turn out so well. I got the luggage & as I bought stuff or thought of things that needed to go on the trip, I'd throw them in there to pack. BIG MISTAKE. I didn't know what was in there & what wasn't. It was crazy. I forgot my makeup. I forgot my blue jeans, but didn't know that until later in the trip. I forgot my belt (so I bought one in the airport at that $10 place) that was needed for the blue jeans that was also not in the luggage. I left my extra $ in an envelope on the table. Thank goodness it was just a little bit. I had my major amount of bills already in my security belt. I forgot my tweezers (don't ask). Then when we got to Bulgaria we realized I didn't have my measuring tape. I still don't have accurate measurements of A - we've requested those to be taken after we pass court. SHEESH. I think I was loosing my mind, so much so that I started a list. It became quite comical. Later in the trip we added a category. LOST: I lost my NEW pair of prescription sunglasses only to find them on the last day in Andy's bag. He lost his jacket - hope someone in Paris enjoys it. ;0)
The flights were good. The prayers of the people were heard again & honored. No major turbulance. A couple of times I got a little nervous, but it didn't last long enough for me to pop a pill. ;0) Thank you Jesus.
When we got to our big flight to Paris it was overbooked. Andy was worried they would bump us to another flight since we were so late in booking so he started getting nervous. They started giving out vouchers to folks for catching the next one. Andy did his research & knew there were several more going out that same day. We were scheduled to be in Paris at 6am so it really wasn't that big of a deal to get in a little later. Long story shorter, we accepted $1000 vouchers and by flying via a detour through Detroit we landed in paris around 10am. CRAZY. We didn't think it was going to work out because they were having trouble finding our luggage, (you HAVE to fly with your luggage on all international flights now) but God worked it out. God never ceases to amaze me at how He works things out.
So next post : Paris, France
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