Trip from you know where

Trip from ????? You can guess!

Well we finally arrived after our trip from ????? you know where!
Just a few details here about our trip to Kharkiv Ukraine from JFK in NY. Just so happened that the day of our departure from NYC somebody flew a small plane into an apartment building in Manhattan. We never received the details about what happened and have not gotten any news since we have been here about it either. But that incident along with bad weather in the area, delayed our flight from JFK to London by over 2 hours. Needless to say we arrived at Heathrow airport in London over an hour after our plane had left for Kiev Ukraine! Well let the nightmare begin. Since the recent problems in London the government has passed a law that lets you carry on the plane at England airports only one piece of luggage. So no laptops and a carryon or no purse and a laptop etc sooooooooo we had to go thru customs and go thru the whole check-in process all over again including making new arrangements for a flight from there to Kiev Ukraine. The only way to get there the same day was to fly to Munich Germany and then catch a flight from there to Kiev. Of course we had our friends meeting us at the Kiev airport that afternoon at 3 pm their time and we would not arrive there until 11 pm. But thanks to those that helped us out we were able to make contact thru USA to someone’s cell phone in Kiev, and were able to get a message to them. So to make a long story short we arrived in Kharkiv on the morning of Friday the 13th rather than Thursday the 12th in the evening. From the time we checked in at NY and arrived in Kharkiv Ukraine it was right around 36 hours or a day and a half! Just a little longer than planned but we arrived safely so praise the Lord! Oh did I mention that one of our bags got left in Munich :-) And oh yeah we went thru security 4 times on this trip including twice in London. We decided next time we fly we will wear our bathing suits and sandals to make it easier to go thru security checks! We did receive the bag on Saturday so all was well that ended well!
Ok here is the weird part!!! After we got settled a little we went to bed for the better part of the day. When we woke up we had a hard time remembering if we had even left Kharkiv for the 3 months in US?? Wassup with that?? Even the sound the toilet makes when you flush it sounded normal to our ears!! Ok enough details but you get the idea! It really felt like we were at home. It was really good to connect with some of our friends rite away as Vova and Tanya Sukhov met us at the Target (grocery and department store) and took us back home with all of our stuff we bought to restock our “pantry”. It was good to see them and their son Max. Also we got to catch up with the Sashchuks whose apartment it is that we stay in. What a blessing being in their apartment has been. If you have never rented here you have no idea what a blessing it is to know and be friends with your landlords! Takes a lot of hassle out of your life. Many people here are just looking for a problem to have with you because they seem to enjoy being upset about something. :-)
We also went to a conference that was going on at Sasha Kosiev’s church. It was a team from Randy Parker’s ministry. We got to see a lot more people there also. It was really good to see everyone and we are looking forward to reconnecting with everyone.