Temperature

In case your are wondering on the left side of the blog you can see the current weather and time in Tambov.  It was so cold this morning getting off of the train the Mike’s head was steaming.

Stitches...

So just before our trip Kathryn had arthroscopic surgery on her knee, which required some stitches. Now that a few days have passed she had to have the stitches taken out and we are blessed to have an RN on our team. Today while we had some free time Debbie removed the stitches from Kathryn’s knee. Here are a couple of pictures for those who are interested. 

Kathryn and I (Mike) talked about her classes in order to distract her (the future PA) from the process. She was getting queasy….which I personally think is very funny.

We are in Tambov

Just  a quick note. We made it safely to Tambov and are getting ready to eat breakfast (even though it is 10:30pm in Idaho. We will write more later.

We made it!!!

We were at JFK airport and looking out the window at our plane…and then we saw them take the plane away!! We were delayed until about 5pm as they replaced the plane again. Finally with the fourth plane, over two days, we were able to leave New York and make it to Russia. We are now waiting in the SGA offices in Moscow until this evening and then we will get on an overnight train to Tambov.  Here are some pictures of our time in the airport. The first two are while our team waiting in line for our hotel vouchers (sometime after midnight). The bottom picture is the second day at JFK just before we boarded our plane. Thanks for your prayers!!! Keep praying for the Immanuel’s Child outreach!

Uneventful first day….just kidding :)

So we have had a very interesting trip so far. At this point in the trip we should be getting on an overnight train heading for Tambov, but instead we are at a Holiday Inn in New York. We got on our first plane for Moscow and they had a mechanical problem that they weren’t able to get the part for. So we got of the plane and the moved us to a different gate and loaded us on a plane way out in the middle of nowhere. After being on the plane for a few hours while they transferred luggage, food, water, and fuel they were ready to take off. We were fourth in line when they told us that they had another mechanical problem and we had to return to the terminal. When we returned to the terminal we were told that we would leave at 12:45 am and a half hour before we were to board they canceled the flight. After a long wait in line we were sent a hotel.  We are now getting ready to go back to the airport and try again.  Even with all the bumps we are doing well and our spirits are good. Please pray for our the rest of our flight and the rest of our trip (I hear that there is a big snow storm in Moscow).  Hopefully when I blog again it will be from Moscow.

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Pictures from Trip

I had been really slow with updating this blog and I appologize for that. Here are some more pictures from the trip.

This first picture is the traffic outside out hotel in Moscow

Second picture is us at My My (pronounced moo moo), it had a cow theme.

Next is a picute of the team that won the Wilson log course (they were really fast)

After that is the disc golf olympic team (the Red team one after Mike H. got a hole in one)

Last is a picture of a group getting ready to get their whole team over the wall behind them (13feet high).