Norm and Debra on their way to Guinea!

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The past 24 hours have left me confused as to what the day and time really is but I’ll try my best to keep things straight. We boarded our flight at JFK for Conakry (with a brief planned layover in Brussels) around 5pm Monday evening and quickly got ourselves situated in our seats. The Lord even blessed us with an empty seat to put Canaan in, a couple was willing to switch with us. We waited anxiously for our flight to begin… waited some more until a few hours had gone by and we were informed that all flights out of JFK to Europe were grounded.

It didn’t even sound like we were going to be leaving that day but after some more waiting the weather apparently cleared and we were ready to take off. The only problem for us was that we were leaving three hours late and our layover in Brussels was only two hours long… the math wasn’t adding up.

Canaan did great on the flight, slept for much of it and wasn’t a bother to anyone. As we neared Belgium we were informed that most flights would have to be rescheduled. As we left the plane we were met by an American Airlines agent who was assigned to make sure that we were taken care of. We learned that the next flight from Brussels to Conakry isn’t until next Tuesday and that just doesn’t work for us. The plan ended up being that tonight we will stay in a hotel in Brussels and in the morning we will be driven to Paris, France and from there catch a flight with Air France to Conakry. American Airlines is taking care of all of that and have been really good to us so far.

So here we are, waiting it out in a hotel in Brussels, Canaan is exhausted but doing ok, we are trying to get his naps timed out so that the time change will be easier for him. Keep us in your prayers as we drive to Paris and get onto our flight to Conakry. It’s been a long few days for Canaan, we left Sunday morning from Shelburne, Ontario. Thanks everyone for your prayers and comments, they are a blessing and encouragement!