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He's Home!

Our second son came home on Friday night.  It turned out to be kind of an ordeal.  He got up at 3am in Latvia (6pm Thursday night for us) and spent the next 30 hours getting to our house with just a few hours of sleep.  The layovers were the problem.  The layover in Denver was longer than planned because the flight was delayed almost two hours.  We could have almost driven to Denver and picked him up and driven back home in the time that it took for him to fly from there.

We ended up waiting in the airport for most of that delay because our online info was inaccurate.  It's a good thing we had time to figure out we were in the wrong terminal.

My oldest son got engaged, married, and had a baby while his brother was gone.

Finally he arrived and we got home close to midnight.  My youngest was so tired and not feeling great thanks to an ear infection.  (Have I complained enough?)  Oh yeah, and his luggage didn't arrive with him!  So at 4:30am we got a call from the driver who was dropping it off.  Thankfully we could sleep in a little the next day.


Anyway, it has been good to have him home, enjoy having him around, and ask him questions whenever I want about what has been happening the last two years.  I'm not sure if he's completely happy to be home yet.  He was such a dedicated missionary that he misses that life and that focus on sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ full-time.  But eventually he will settle in.

Some of his roommates from his freshman year came to greet him.

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