Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Almsot Stranded in London!

The flight from Knoxville to Chicago was great. It was on time and there were no problems. When I got to the Chicago Airport I had about a ten hour layover. So, I decided to get something to eat and waited till my next flight. At about 3:30 pm, I met up with missionaries that I was flying and working with in Central Asia. When the missionaries got to the airport, the clerk told them that our flight that was suppose to leave at 7:15 pm was delayed two hours. This is where we ran into our problem. Now that our flight was delayed two hours that only left us with an one hour layover in London. The missionary checked at the front desk the flight's arrival and the clerk said that we would probably miss our next flight that was heading to London. Just to let you know that London only flies two days a week to the country that we were flyign to. That would leave a party of five stranded in London for three days, because the next day that they would leave would be Tuesday. We saw that there was a flight that leaving for London at 5:25 pm, which would give us plenty of time to connect to our next flight in London. The missionary talked to the flight attendant and they scheduled us to be on that airplane. Well, we ran into another problem. There were two people that we suppose to be traveling with us to Central Asia, but their flight was not arriving in Chicago till 4:40 pm and that would only give them about thirty minutes to connect to the new flight we were taking. So, the missionary called the two people and told them to run as fast as they could to get to flight because it was leaving right away. By the grace of our Father, all five travelers made it on the flight in one piece.

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