What a trip

Wow I had a great week at home. Thanks to everyone who visited with me while I was home it was so awesome to see everyone. After that great time home I was hoping for a nice trip to Ireland... it didn't quite go as planed.
Everything went fine getting Checked in at the Cleveland airport, but our plane was delayed. We got to Newark (our connecting flight to Belfast) right when our other plane was supposed to be leaving. It was still on the ground but they were done boarding. We couldn’t go that night. They gave us a hotel room and some food vouchers, and the next plane was going out the next night, and we might get on it. So Saturday I spent with Amo Daoud’s family (after we could find them with the messed up NJ train system). Tata (Grandma) found out that I was going to be there so she made Aunti Phoebe take her. Tamara and Yasmin also come down to see me. It was really a good time, and again showed me all the people who cared for me, and would be praying for me. So we went to the airport hoping to get on the plane. It was overbooked, and we only had standby tickets. The terminal was packed with people. While we waited for the workers to load everyone else on the plane and tell us if we had seats, I used all my food vouchers to buy snacks for the flight. Finally we were called! There was just enough room for us. The plane was packed, but we were on it. I slept for some of the flight, but about 6 hours later we landed in Belfast. We had finally made it after two full days of traveling, but when we went to get our bags they weren’t there. We waited around for a while, then waited in line for a longer while, waiting to tell the workers what had happened. My guess was that our bags had somehow gotten on the plane the night before, which we had missed. The clerk said that it had probably been misrouted, and we would have it hopefully by tomorrow. I had already spent 2 days and nights in those clothes, and didn’t want to spend another, but we left and waiting for us in the pickup area was Tim (the guy in charge while we are in Ireland). He welcomed us and told us what had happened to our bags. The plane that we missed was stuck on the runway for half an hour, and then the people were sent back inside for another 2 hours (all of this after we had “missed it”). So our bags had gotten on that plane, and were waiting for us at the airport. We got them and stuffed them and ourselves into Tim’s small car. He took us to his office where the three of us could eat change and relax after our long trip. We were finally in Ireland.