The Joy of Serving

Hi all,

It’s Saturday Jan 26 in India and I now have some time on Jayamani’s computer so I will try to get a quick post done.

The plane ride went well with the second attempt.  We arriverd at check in at Sea-Tac somewhat earlier than necessary and there was hardly any line.  Although things seemed to be going routinely we were relieved when the plane actually started rolling.  Then we knew we were actually on our way.

The flight to Amsterdam was mostly smoothe but 10 hours is a long time anyway.  It was 7:30 AM Wednesday when we landed.  Then a 5 hour layover before the final leg to Hyderabad, another 9 hours.  A long time, but we got here.

Roger met us at the airport in Hyderabad and got us over to the hotel.  By the time we got to bed it was about 3:30 AM local time.  I think we had been awake for about 28 hours.

Roger gave us a wakeup call at about 8 AM same morning.  We had breakfast and hung around until the prearranged taxi showed up at a little after 2 PM and drove us the 2 hours to Jangaon and the orphanage.  So, from the time we left home until we arrived here was about 65 hours . . .whew!  But the kids make it all worth it.

I have a better-thought-out post which I composed on my laptop yesterday and copied to my thumb drive in anticipation of having this computer time.  But once I was here I found there were no available USB ports.  So that post will have to wait til later.

Suffice it to say I now fully understand what Jan was up against in getting timely posts on her blog.

I hear the kids singing in the courtyard.  Got to go.  More later.

Mike M.

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