Traveling

We are scrambling around this morning packing and trying to get ready to be gone for a week. Monday evening Garry phoned and talked to his mother, who has been at home for the last couple weeks after being in hospital for a month after we saw her in August. Tuesday we found out she had gone back to the hospital and on Wednesday we found out she was being moved to hospice care there. Many of Garry's brothers and sisters were able to go and be with her and Dad, sharing in singing, prayer and scripture around her until Friday evening when she went to be with the Lord.

Meanwhile our passports were in the registration office in Dnepro as Victor had started our yearly renewal when I returned from NJ two weeks ago. He phoned them and they said they could be ready Friday afternoon for us to pick up. So yesterday we went to Dnepro earlier than normal to get them and another massage for Garry's back. When we got home after the English Bible study, Garry looked at various plane possibilities, but decided to wait until morning to book it. He went to bed at 11 pm our time, I checked for messages after midnight. Then I woke at a 4 am and read that she had passed away shortly after I had last checked.

So we got up and booked tickets at 4:30 am for an afternoon flight out of Dnepro, which gets us to Toronto at 1:30 Sunday afternoon. Rented a car that I will have to drive because Garry does not have his drivers on him. We will be back here next Saturday at 2 am, even though we leave Thursday evening, but it was the best set of flights we could find this morning. 

Garry is off making his morning batch of feed and then we need to figure out what is wrong with the house water pump (no water when we got home last night) and what we are doing with Alona, our live-in student while we are gone.

Hopefully all goes well and we are able to spend this important time with family, and every thing here goes smoothly while we are gone.