Where is my brain????

Man - WHAT A DAY !!!!!

Today Chris was scheduled to leave for Nicaragua on a missions trip. The tickets were from Washington, which is 2 hrs from us, as the price was so much cheaper. I had made all the travel arrangements for him. The flight was at 2:05 pm, so we had planned to leave the house at 10:30am. Of coarse we were running late, it was a crazy morning getting the kids to school. We have Chris's parents dog staying with us, a golden retriever, well he loves shoes - especially taking them outside and hiding them, so this morning we could not find Benjamin's shoe anywhere - and I know it was there last night - so we actually had to run to Target and buy him a pair of shoes - fortunately they were old, and he needed new ones. Needless to say we were stressing a little on the way to the airport, especially when we hit traffic outside of DC.

Fineally we arrived, just in time 1 hr and 10 min before the flight - except we were at the WRONG airport. OH MY - I had thought it was Dulles airprot when actually it was National airport - they are both in DC.

We jumped back in the car and made a dash for National, knowing that there was no way we would make it - we got there at 2:05pm just as the plane was leaving, Urrrr, you can imagine how awful I felt. We spoke with continental and they said for $150 we could switch the ticket for tomorrow, but that would mean he would loose a whole day as it doesn't arrive until 8pm, and they were on a pretty tight schedule in Nicaragua.

We then spoke to several other airlines to see if we could purchase another ticket, but no one had flights. The last person we spoke to was American Airlines, we explained what had happened and that he was going on a missions trip. The earliest flight he had was 7:30am, but would get there at 11:00am - much better, and even better we could leave from our airport instead of DC.

Then came the question - HOW MUCH? lets see, a ticket, one way, the day before from our small airport I was thinking at least $600 - money we did not have or want to spend - $600 could go a long way in Nicaragua - so we held our breath and prayed - he asked for our continental ticket, and then stated typing for what seemed like forever - and then he went over to the printer and handed us a brand new ticket, and said he was able to transfer it, and there was no fee - WHAT - nathing, nada, even continental was going to charge us to change the ticket, and this was a completely different airline.

Thank you God - I have no other explanation than that God is alive yesturday, today and forevever - and I know we witnessed a miracle.