We made it!!!

After a long 30 hours of travel we made it to our new home in Puerto Galera! Our trip was pretty uneventful, which is good. Layla did awesome! She slept on every flight we were on. Our long flight was 15 hours and she slept for 11 of those 15 hours! Can you believe it?! She was such a good sport...no breakdowns or tantrums the whole time! So, just to give you a run down of what our day looked like, we left Denver at 8:23am on the 14th. We flew to San Francisco and had a 2 hour lay over there which ended up being a good thing because we got lost at that airport and we had to switch airlines so we had to get all new boarding passes. It was a pain, but we made it to our gate about 5 min before we had to board. Then we got on the long 15 hour flight. I didn't sleep much at all, maybe 2 or 3 hours, but Layla and Jack slept better than I did so that's good. The food on the flight wasn't bad at all which is definitely a plus. I watched a bazillion movies and tv shows on the flight while Layla slept through most of it. Then we arrived in Hong Kong. That airport was a little tricky, but no too bad. We had a 3 and a half hour layover there so we just hung out and Jack made friends with some of the other Filipinos in the airport. I was super tired by then, but we had to go on. Then we flew from Hong Kong to Manila and that was only a 2 hour flight...not too bad at all. I think the worst part of all the traveling was the lack of sleep and sore rear ends. After we arrived in Manila we got all of our bags and found out that one of our bags split open and was all wrapped in plastic. We have since learned that some of our stuff is missing. :( After all that Vicki from Mercy in Action picked us up at about 1am Manila time. We went back to a small apartment she has in Manila and slept for about 2 hours until the van arrived to take us down the the port so we could catch the ferry and make it to Puerto Galera. Luckily there are a lot of porters around that helped us with our bags. The ferry over to the island was really choppy this morning. We were sitting in the front of the boat and with the bigger swells Layla, Jack, and I all got soaked. Unfortunately, Layla and I got it the worst because of our seats. Layla did great though because she was laughing and giggling the whole time! She didn't mind being wet at all! It was great...she is an awesome traveler. So now we are at our home and just trying to settle in.

Thank you all for your prayers, we appreciate it so much! God definitely protected us and gave us traveling mercies. Please pray that we get settled in and that all of our stuff shows up. I am missing all of my "bottoms." So all of my shorts and capris are missing. We're hoping that once we get things all unpacked they'll show up, but there is very little chance that they will. We're also missing some of our toiletry items. Hopefully everything will work itself out. I must just have to go and buy some pants/shorts. We could also use prayer for strength, health, and a quick adjustment to the time change. I will update you all again soon! We love you all! Here are some pictures of our travels.


Layla standing in front of our plane in the San Fransisco airport. The is the big plane that took us to Hong Kong.



Passing time in the Hong Kong airport.



We just arrived in Manila! Yeah, we made it!!!!



Layla and I on the ferry heading to Puerto Galera. This is before we got soaked from the big swells! :)