Hola amigos!
We finally arrived here in malga,Spain on Friday the 19th. If you did not hear it took us three attempts to get to Spain. We flew out of jfk on Wednesday--but around 3.5 hours into our flight we hit some very rough turbulence. It was vey scary as we thought our plane was going down. It was so bad Dave flew up and hit his head on the ceiling. Some passengers ended up in the aisle and I ended up covered in wine! The people around me were drinking wine when it hit so their wine flew everywhere--ended up on the ceiling and was dripping down all over me. The pilot came on after a bit and reassured us everything was okay--but then a little later came on and said there had been damage to the plane---to the ac aunit. We could not fly into Spain and continue across the ocean with only one ac unit working so we had to turn around and fly black to jfk. So basically we flew 7 hours and ended up right where we started. We were never so glad to land. Our third flight was much better. When I get frustrated here because of lack of American comforts---such as clothes dryer, no internet at our home, no ac, I remember how good it feels to be on solid ground!

Lynsy has met some friends from church and the boys all like it except Ethan of course. I think he will adjust once he meets friends from school.

It is very beautiful here, quite amazing! The toughest thing right now is our sleep schedule. I watched the sun rise Sunday morning!

We went to our church Sunday--it was nice and the sermon seemed very good but we had no clue what he spoke about! We did understand the music better because they put the words up on a screen. It was very very hot with no ac in the church. We bought little hand fans for next sunday! We met many people and some could speak English---praise the lord! The youth group seems it will be good.

The boys played around in the gym afterwards. The service is held in a gym much like horizon.

Dave has his first meeting at church on Wednesday so it wil be interesting to see how it goes.

We have no phone right now and no cell phones either. We have to go the mall for wifi. Do not know about the free phone now since we cannot get Internet at our home. We will let you know as we find out more.

Sorry so long will keep the rest shorter if I can.

Hope all is good back home and you and your families are well.

Thank you all for a nice send off and for your prayers.

Adios amigos!
Karen

Hola, we're back!  Yes that's right--- we are still here in Indy!  The morning started off well-- we headed to the airport , got checked in etc... but as we approached our gate the schedule monitor read cancelled!  From the time we checked our luggage, to the time we approached our gate, our flight was changed to cancelled.
So we are now leaving for Spain on Wednesday morning.   We were all disappointed except Ethan.  He was grinning from ear to ear and said "Yes, one more day at home!"

One more thing....as we headed down to the baggage claim to get our luggage Dave noticed an email from the Spain consulate office in Chicago.  The email was notifying us that our children's visas were now ready to be picked up.  So staying a day longer here in the states will allow Dave to drive to Chicago on Tuesday to pick up the visas.  Now Dave will not have to fly back from Spain to Chicago to pick up the visas---this will save us money too!  So I guess God is good and knows what he is doing!

So we will do it all over again on Wednesday!

Blessings,
Karen