Run, Run as fast you can!

 Well we have made it as far as Singapore and we are now a short 45 minute plane ride to PKU.  I would like to say that everything went without a hitch but as we have come to expect, when you are traveling internationally nothing always goes just as planned.  Even though things were a little touch and go there for a while we knew that God's provision for our group would be enough.  We also know that He has a sense of humor and boy was it on display over the last 24+ hours.

First our flight from Seattle to San Francisco was delayed for 2 hours.  So glad we all got up so early to be at the airport at 6:30:)  This delay meant that we were in real danger of not making our connection in S.F. to Seoul.  This would be a problem for a multitude of reasons the biggest one being that there was no way to rebook 24 people on a subsequent flight, effectively shutting us down before we even left the  good old U.S. of A.  Thanks to many prayers and the Lord using Linda Grierson to make many contacts with Singapore Air we were able to make our connection with about 30 seconds to spare before they shut the gate down.

Have you ever seen those movie's where people are running through an airport to make a flight only to watch it back away from the gate just as they show up?  Well that thought was running through all of our minds from the second we boarded the plane in Seattle, knowing how close the connection would be.  Alaska Airlines was gracious enough to get on the intercom as we landed in S.F. and asked all of the other passengers to please let our group off of the flight 1st, even before 1st class passengers.  This was a huge help and as soon as we got off the flight Linda had arranged for us to be met at the gate with a rep from Singapore Air who led our group at a quick jog all the way to the international terminal.    This was HUGE because none of us knew the S.F. airport well enough to have gotten our team there as quickly.  Listening to people talk about us as we ran by them was pretty funny as they were trying to guess what such a big group was doing running through the airport.

From there we then had to go to the Singapore Air ticketing desk and get our new boarding passes.  24 people all with passports having to wait on the computers to verify them took a least 15 minutes.  We then had to all go through security again where the lines were slow.  Once we made it would there we had to RUN to gate and the we were literally the last ones on the plane as they were getting ready to shut the plane door.  Crazy!  Once we got on the plane there was a collective sigh from all of us.

One of the great things about trips like this is they show how God provides for our needs.  There is no way that without his intervention that we make that connection.  If not for Him looking over our trip we would all be at home now pouring over our travel insurance for a lost trip.  God is good!

Waiting in line in to get our S.F. to Singapore boarding passes.