We're Here!!! Praise the Lord.

So after a ridiculous course of events, we are ALL in Granada, Spain.

Well, we got to the church all right and left promptly after some prayer. Then we drove down to the Philly Int Airport (not Newark, Jesse is an idiot). We all got to Heathrow in London and then stuff went nuts.

Our plane in Philly waited to take off b/c we would've arrived too early. Then we were actually late b/c other planes were in line. So we got to London with barely enough time to make the plane to Madrid. Jesse was pushed in a wheelchair lightning fast by Nick. We rushed through customs. Then eight girls went to the bathroom together (imagine that). There was some confusion about what gate. Once corrected we went to the gate where we were bussed to the plane. We actually were separate onto two buses. Once the second arrived at the plane, we all were boarded. Or so we thought . . .

Once on the plane, people started counting heads and asking where Erin Burke was.
Answer: not on the plane

The kind British people on the plane (who we loved to listen to. Really made my Harry Potter read come alive) told us that she was taken by pirates and that there was no hope!!
All right, just joking. They told us she was fine but would have to take another flight.
1 down, more to come.

We made it to Madrid, which was an architect's dream, just fine. We went to pick up our luggage b/c we had to switch to a Spanish airlines. After walking around for a billion years, we ended up at the luggage claim. After waiting hopefully for like an hour, only five of our bags appeared.

Then we had to tell the airline reps about our bags. Another hour down the drain on no sleep whatsoever. We sauntered on over to the Airline check in to get our new tickets to Granada only to find that our flight was OVERBOOKED. Seriously??

So we all laid on the ground (this happened wherever we went, we were the homeless American troupe) until we got our tickets. Erin was finally reunited to us as was Pat Solt who we left at luggage to meet Laurel who stayed back for Erin. It was like the 21 little monkeys not jumping on the bed but flying to Spain and we were down to 15. Who was next?

We then rushed to our gate for our Granada flight which was stupid b/c it was delayed. It turned out that five couldn't go. Then we squeezed one back on. Dave and Pat Solt volunteered to stay behind with Emily and Chrissy. We hopped over to Granada.

The airport was tiny. We got out of the plane on two stair cases, then walked to the airport which was smaller than the Amarillo airport. It was beautiful, though, in the mountains. The four left behinds flew in about two hours after. Around 10 PM after the majority of us had eaten some tapas and Spanish kabobs, we were all together.

YAYYYY! The Lord was so gracious to us. This was a ridiculous adventure. But God was with us. Most of us have had to borrow soap today and clothes. Hopefully our baggage will be at the convent when we get back today.

Thanks for the prayers. We needed every one of them!! Will keep you posted.