Sam and Maria.

We just got back from Illinois where we were visiting Sam’s parents. It was a lovely visit, and I’ll post pictures soon. Thanks for having us.

Yesterday we had a plane to catch back to San Diego. Our flight left at 8:10 PM. It takes about 2 hours to get to the airport from where they live. Conscienciously we left at 3:30 to give us a generous 4+ hours to get there. Half an hour into our journey we hit traffic, in more than 2 hours we moved only 5 miles.

There was an accident on the highway, and all the traffic was being rerouted. As soon as we got off that highway we hit traffic again as everyone was in the same pickle we were. We spent another hour or so in traffic. Our GPS told us that we were going to arrive at the airport 15 min before our flight.

We were really praying as it’s just such a big trip to lose your tickets. But, we also reconized that it was one of those things that was just out of our hands and we had to just trust the Lord. We called San Diego to let them know we were likely to miss our flight, and started calling the airlines to make arrangements, etc.

A little later we got a call from home, Orbitz had called to let them know that our flight had been delayed and would now depart at 10: 00 PM. Is that cool or what!!! A perfect answer to prayer.