My God Is An Awesome God!!

October 30, 2007

My God Is An Awesome God!

Today we traveled from Tulsa to San Jose, Costa Rica. We set our alarm clocks for 4 am! The flight left at 6:10 am. I prayed all morning about our trip. I prayed for God to go before us and prepare the way. I was hoping that traveling with 6 small children was enough of a challenge of its own without adding traveling issues on top. Thankfully, it was! The little ones were perfect on both flights! Lily and I were upgraded to first class on the first flight. She nursed and slept the entire flight. Then George and Bo were upgraded on the second flight. This gave us an open seat for Lily’s car seat! She was great! They showed an ok Disney movie and all was well for all of us. Then off to customs… All of our 13 checked trunks/bags arrived unharmed. We found someone to help push us through the airport to immigration. We had so many children and so much luggage we just passed right through without even asking us anything! We hardly even had to wait in line at all! On the way out of the airport there is a large glass window where people stand outside and wait for others coming out of the airport. I have never felt so much like a fish in a fishbowl as this time! People even had their faces pressed up against the window staring at all of us! It was so hilarious. Bo’s biggest concern was the luggage and how would we get to Tuis with all of us and all of our stuff. Hector arrived at the airport to pick us up. We all fit in a 12 passenger “mini”-van and our luggage behind us in another vehicle. No problems at all. Talk about “God going before us”! It was awesome! I sang the song all afternoon. We drove through San Jose about 1 ½ hours to a restaurant. It was our first experience ordering and waiting to see what we actually get. It was all good, just a bit too much food! J There was a huge rain while we were there. The kids had a ball running around outside in the downpour! Then we drove another hour to our house in Tuis. The countryside is beautiful. There is sugar cane and coffee growing all along the sides of the roads. It all reminds me of a movie. Little tin roof homes built into the mountain side. The houses are all different beach inspired colors. Our house is coral. I will send pictures as soon as I can get a time to actually get online and post on the blog. The house….hmmm. I will write more about that tomorrow. Thank you God for our traveling mercies!