HALLELUJAH!

Okay...so after spending the day at the OUTSIDE the airport getting the lay of the land we are thrilled to announce that we have been able to PRINT our boarding passes for tomorrow's flight. This is HUGE because the entire departures terminal for KLM flights has been SHUT DOWN all day...meaning they literally have blocked ALL entrances into the entire Departures 2 building. I have never seen a longer line in my life! 8 people wide, at least a mile and half long from the other departures building with no hope of getting through. We don't have our baggage as it was checked through to Rome so we don't have bags to check...we just needed a boarding pass to get back IN to the airport tomorrow and we needed to get to a kiosk to do that and couldn't access any kiosks ALL DAY! We also could not print our boarding ALL day after several phone calls to KLM...it just wouldn't pull up the info online. So we were feeling VERY hopeless all day! Josh was even going to spend the night standing in the hopeless line just to see where he could get. A security guard told us not to try that but to go back to room and see if we could try again in the morning. So we left and came back to hotel to try and see if we could but another flight that was NOT KLM so we could get boarding pass to get INTO airport to work from there. Well, we decided to try to print boarding passes ONE more time and it WORKED!!! And we even have the EXIT ROW...now we're nowhere close to being where we need to be. These tickets are supposed to go to Paris tomorrow afternoon and then on to Rome and get us in at 10:00 where we hope to make our Ethiopian Air connecting flight at midnight and then we'll be BACK ON TRACK for the rest of trip. SO PLEASE PRAY that our flight leaves here tomorrow and then leaves Paris as it's supposed to snow in Paris tomorrow also. We've completely written off our luggage...who knows where it is, which if FINE with us. We packed one extra outfit in our carry on and then all the care packages and even bags of chocolate for nanny gifts so we'll be OK without (though it would be great if we did find it for the donations to make it to Ethiopia). So we're closer but not out of the woods...please pray for the snow to not be heave and for our flights to leave on time and for us to make it to Ethiopia by Monday morning. We know God is in control even when the ENTIRE airport is not in control of anything!! We will be praying for extra doses of patience as well...one day this will be a great story for Zadie!! We worked HARD to get to that little one! And we'd do it again if we had to...let's just pray we DON'T have to!!