Hey, its ebeth.  Hope you are all recovering at home.  Don't you love your own bed and food from your kitchen at home?  I do!  I had lunch at California Pizza Kitchen with my parents and Don at the airport before we left. - yummy.  Don had all of Tuesday off so we stayed at home all day.  I've been working on the pictures.  Soon I'll have a CD for each of you. 

Keep posting and let us all know how you are doing. 

peace,

e.hill

Ricky Owens today compared our mad dash to the
gate, only to see the plan pulling out, to a romantic
comedy where the guy finally realizes how much he
loves the girl, then drives like crazy and runs
through the airport to tell her, only to see her
already on the runway pulling away.  I thought it was
quite appropriate.

We ate some good food tonight (a 24 hour greasy spoon
right across from the hotel).  The airline is covering
the hotel costs, but not dinner.  We met a nice
Christian man named David who was in the shuttle with
us on our way back from the airport to the hotel, and
we shared our story with him (he is likewise the
father of some mission-minded kids).  While we were
all checking in, one of the assistants reached over to
me and handed me vouchers for the Breakfast Buffet
here for all of us (I knew that this cost was NOT
included, either by the hotel or the airline), and I
looked over and David had bought us all breakfast for
tomorrow!  I politely tried to say, "You don't have to
do that", etc., but he insisted.  What a blessing!
You see the crazy kind of stuff that happens when
you're on an adventure like this?

Today and tonight was hard on the kids, I think.
Please keep praying for them.  I know it was very
frustrating for them to have waited so patiently these
last few days to come home, only to be delayed again.
Definitely more of a low than we've had in the past
several days or so.

You guys are awesome.  Please pray, if it's in God's
will, we make it home tomorrow.

Peace,

Abram.

(mom EB)

another change of plans...thanks Katrina.  we finally made it to houston after stopping for gas in San Pedro Sula, HN and then flying a different route to TX.  so, here we are at the Hilton Garden Inn in Houston.  we have nice rooms - two for the girls, one for the boys and one each for EB and AKJ.  we ate dinner across the parking lot....yeah for american food!  now we are very tired and we have an early wake up call. oh, there was a guy on the hotel shuttle with us and he listened to our story.  as we were all checking into the hotel he insisted on buying our breakfast for tomorrow morning....God provides in fun ways..  so, we don't really have our hopes up for arriving at DCA ontime.  we understand that Katrina is chasing us.  we almost made the flight to DCA....we watched it pull away after running and cutting security lines.  some of us cried at the sight.  continental tells us that our bags were on that flight. 

by the way, i left my cell phone at the hospital.  i had used it to look up a number and left it out.....now its locked up in the doctors office.  rene will mail it to me.  that will take about 10 days.

i'm sure we will all have a chance to call you from the airport tomorrow. 

please pray that we will be patient with each other as we continue with this adventure. 

thank you doug for making all the phone calls and helping us from home. 

peace,

e.hill

p.s. there was a small internet cafe near our gate in tegucigalpa....they let me have a few mintues for free to get that last post up. 

..wahooo...we are at the aiport..at the gate...all checked in....passed security....passed the gift shops....ready to go.....just about to get on the plane....they are calling our flight....thanks for your prayers...we will see you ASAP. 

love,

elizabeth hill