Back Home, New Beginnings from Linz

Linz, Yvonne and Charles at the Equator! Not as hot as Dallas or London.

So I've been home for almost a week but have been flying with hardly a minute to sit down! With the help of some WONDERFUL friends and family members, I completely moved into my apartment on Sunday, started unpacking Monday, painted all day Tuesday, went food/necessity shopping Wednesday, went teacher shopping today, and still have to finish unpacking! But I'm loving it! Having my ownplace is great so far :)

But, back to Africa, I must finish the tale!... Sooooooo, that night we had dinner with many of our friends at a favorite Italian restaurant (yes, I wasn't there long, but already had favorite restaurants!). It was a great time of laughter and interesting conversation (roles of men and women in relationships, serious stuff, but always fun!).

We went home and packed everything up, woke up and left the house by 6 to go to the airport. Once in the airport, we mosied (sp?) on over to the gate and hung out there til our flight left. Lucky for us, we got bumped up to World Traveller Plus, which is like middle class on BA. As I've said, BA is nice to begin with, and this middle class was GREAT! Lots of leg room, bigger seats, more mobility, good stuff! That made the trip to London quite enjoyable. We landed in London, got a taxi and headed to our Bed and Breakfast in Harmondsworth Village. :) It was such a cute little area. We walked around and talked with some of the locals, ate at a nearby pub (burger for me, fish and chips for Yvonne) and came back to our HOT room. I don't know if you heard, but there was a heat streak in London, and of course they don't have AC over there. There was no breeze and our fan was very weak. Oddly enough, it was the hottest we'd been on the trip! Who'd of thought London would be hotter than the equator!haha :) Plus, the sun stays up forever in London. It rises by 6 and doesn't go down til at least 10! I couldn't wait for the sun, I went to sleep around 9:30 that night. :)

Next morning we woke up, had some breakfast, took a taxi back to the airport, got some Starbucks, and headed to our gate. Not without any trouble though. After flying all the way to Uganda and back, Heathrow was telling me my carry on was too big...... sure it was. So I had to check my bag, praying all of my souviers wouldn't be broken. Praise the Lord, only one little chip occured, which my dad fixed when I got back :) thanks daddy! We then boarded our plane and were AGAIN bumped up to Word Traveller Plus! The Lord is good! :) We breezed through customs in O'Hare and our bags were all there :) We walked around and chilled in the food court until our plane left. It was slightly delayed, but no big deal. :) Finally we arrived back home! We waited for our bags (only to discover one was sitting on the floor behind us the whole time! haha) then headed home. It was such an amazing trip, I've uploaded my pictures onto Webshots so you can get a glimpse of our adventures! http://community.webshots.com/user/pinzy06-date

Thank you so much for your support financially, in prayer and in emails! I've loved communicating with you the whole way through! At this point, I would love to go back and focus on just one of the places we travelled on this trip. I would love to deepen some of the relationships I started and invest in some of the ministries. I'll let you know if anything comes up! :) God bless for He blesses richly!!Linz :)