What a WILD Jounery

We were SUPPOSE to leave friday AM from Columbus @ 1:00 and fly to JFK (New Yourk) - but the flight was cancelled with just one hour before departure because of the snow storm on the east coast. At first we thought it was a cruel pill to swallow - for us to spend the last two years doing all kinds of things, having a wonderful "send off" at the airport - and then a few inches of snow cut us off from traveling, and the airlines refused to rerouted us to the West Coast, even though that was the direction we really needed to travel anyhow. But, by God's Grace alone, the snow ended up in a BLESSING. We ended up rescheduling our trip, starting from Cincinati flying to LAX (Los Angelos - who knows what the X stands for?) - which meant a 5 hour trip, followed by a 14 hour trip, rather than one long, eternal 19 hour marathon! But to do that, we had to get to Cincinati. Well, get this: in the midst of the cancelation, the airlines rerouted 2 of our 5 baggages to Atlanta - who knows? Again, at first we were frusrtated, but in the end that TOO WAS A BLESSIng - because, we had to drive to Cincinati right away to catch the necessary flight; but there was NO WAY that our 5 large pieces of luggage would fit into an average sized car (beside our 5 smaller carry ons- yes I know, we over packed- very clear now:)). So because the two biggest pieces of luggage were transported for us, free at charge might I add, we had just enough room to squeeze us all in a car and run down to Cin. -THANKS mom and dad crawford for rearranging your entire day to get us on that plane!!! Its amazing how love comes out in different ways through different people - that we my parents (eric's) great act of love for Evan.

If you would have seen us, you would have thought we were in the AMAZING RACE - literally RACING from one point to the next. Our longest layover, to this piont in time has been only 2 hours - our shortest was a SPRINT ACROSS LAX to catch the flight, that was half boarded when we showed up to the gate. (FUnny story = we have three carry ons, a computer and a video camera... by the time we were done with our srint across LAX, I had all three carry-ons with kayla tossed over my shoulder like a soldier carrying his wounded mate safely home - OK I'm exaggerating with kayla, but I did have the overloadedcarry-ons on my back.) So here we are in Tapei, Twain, about one hour from our final flight into Siagon... we have now been awake (besides a lousy nap or two) for 36 hours... and its only 5:45 AM HERE!! So we have a whole other day to enjoy before the blessingof sleep hits us. We are in good spirits even though our BO is rounchy and our breath could melt paint off a car:)

If is misspelled or don't make sense, blame it on the sleep.
Eric writing for the clan