Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Show me the way to go home

We struggled our luggage from the Air New Zealand terminal to the United departure gate. We had to clear customs again upon landing and had to go up an escalator with all our luggage in tow. We went to the boarding area and waited until the time to board. We called Emily from there but couldn't talk long because it was time for our flight. We had gone to the ticket counter for check in and obtained an earlier flight that left at 4:30 LA time. We boarded and had a snack and had to buy a box lunch to share. We also slept a bit as we arrived at ORD at 10:35. We were all glad to be early so we could get home early. As the Lord willed it, however, one of my pieces of luggage did not make it on to our plane. We had to go to the Hertz rental station, and I had to come back to see if it had made it on the later plane, our original flight. Praise God it had. We packed everything into the van and headed home at midnight. We were hungry and stopped to get a big load of White Castle hamburgers. We ate most of them and drove the 150 miles to Fort Wayne. Exhausted but safe, we picked up our car at Louise's and left for the motor home. We realize immediately that Evelyn had left her cushion in the van. It was then off to the motor home and bed for four hours. One of Darrell's brothers had died a day before and we awoke to a family dinner. They graciously gave us some food to eat. Then we went to get the cushion from the van before it was returned to the airport. We went back and went to bed but couldn't sleep well, being on Tahiti time. The next day we went back to Fort Wayne to have cysts removed from Evelyn's head. I also received a pathology report stating my cancers were really cancers. I will have to have surgery in NC. I should have asked that doctor to do it but it was Friday afternoon and they all wanted to go home early. We went back, packed up the motor home, went to get gas at Kroger ($1.83 per gallon) and left for NC. We made it to Middletown, Ohio and spent the night. We drove on to Waynesville the next morning, arriving at 5:00. We took what we had to in and went to bed.

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