Day 10

Chaos-the time change wasn’t just in America. Bulgarians recognize Daylight Savings too. So, we were supposed to be at the bus at 5, and we were actually there at 4. Apparently only 2 people knew about the time change so the whole team was out waiting. Svetlo was all worried about us and called Jeffrey. And we just went to the airport really early. It was sad saying goodbye to Bulgaria. It felt like we didn’t have enough time to really take in all that was going on. Brandi and I talked at the gate some and it’s neat to see how the Lord faithfully works in the hearts of His children.

Our plane was about 20 minutes late leaving-no big deal since we had a 3 hr layover in Munich. We got to hang out and get some lunch. Then on our flight to the States. It was super nice-I’ve decided I’m flying with the Germans wherever they go! I stayed awake most of the time since I didn’t want to have a hard time sleeping that night. I sat by Brian Baker who is just funny, but I hadn’t really got to know him so we got to talk a little. He’s traveled a lot too so we got to talk about the places we’ve been.

Once in the states we had to go through customs and passport control in Chicago. It was a little crazy, but not too bad, not near as bad as Munich where we literally got every inch of our bodies patted down-gross. Then we grabbed our first American food in 10 days at a little Chili’s in the restaurant and just about the same time we all started crashing from all the travel. Some of the guys watched football and I read a magazine trying to stay awake. Our plane was pretty much on time and we boarded with no problems. We pulled away from the gate and then everything changed. We just stopped and pulled back up to the gate and they told us there was something wrong with the computer system and a mechanic was coming out to look at it. When he got there he determined he couldn’t fix it and they needed to totally replace the computer-so we sat there while they did. Of course normally getting in at 9:30 wouldn’t seem that late, but by that time we had been awake for over 24 hrs so we were not happy. And neither was our flight attendant!

But we made it, and several people showed up at the airport to welcome us home. And lets just say I didn’t have a problems sleeping that night!