Levi left for London yesterday. If I'm doing all the time change calculations correctly, he's now in the air between London and Delhi. ! I wonder what all that flying feels like....what he's doing. Hopefully sleeping a lot. : )
Anyway, the day before the HopeTakesFlight team's flight left we all went up to this little retreat house on a farm half way to Raleigh (where they flew from). It was really sweet and chill and nice to just hang out. The next morning Levi, Isaiah and I left early for the airport to try and do all the customs paperwork for his camera equipment. It was a HUGE headache. We got the the airport, Levi carted all his stuff in, and while Isaiah and I sat with the stuff, Levi ran around talking to about a half dozen different people trying to figure out where the customs office was. I kept watching him go out one door and come in another, each time with this "who knows?" look on his face. Apparently he got a different story every time!
Meanwhile, Isaiah was a handful because he hadn't taken a nap. The only thing that he wanted to do was either a) run around or b) throw his ball around. Neither of which were good for an airport, obviously. So that was hard....it was not what we had been hoping for. We wanted to spend some fam time together before Levi left watching the airplanes take off, but alas, there were no windows facing the runway that we could find! : (
Ok, so the final straight scoop on the customs office: it was located about 10 minutes away from the airport! Once Levi found that out he rushed us over there and then *phew* sat in a calm little waiting room filling out a few sheets of paper and letting the officers inspect his stuff. It took about 15 minutes. It was such a nice change from the busy airport. Isaiah played with a ball the whole time. : )
Back at the airport the rest of the team met up with us and we all sat around for a while. Isaiah was being mischievous and entertaining everyone. Sigh. Time to go home. Levi walked us out to the car. It was like the first taste of missing him and I felt torn.
Deborah, who had come along as my angel : ), left with Isaiah and I to help with the driving.
I'm so glad they are on their way!!
So much of this adventure is new to me....the preparation, the leaving, and now the "holding down the fort" or whatever you call it when I'm at home with Isaiah for 2 weeks.
The next few days I plan to just rest. Isaiah NEEDS to catch up on his sleep if we are going to remain sane and happy people! ; ) I'm exhausted right now. A nap dawns on the bright horizon. "Hope Takes a Nap"
I'm sooo excited to talk to Levi with Skype. I don't know how soon that will happen and I have yet to find the charger for the audio head set, but I can't wait!
Ok that's all.
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