Travel, Chickens, and the Furby tree.

Me, "Karmy!  I'm home!"
Karmy, "You were gone?"

It was an incredibly long trip, nearly 24 hours, but I made it the good old Panama and my family again! After five weeks of not seeing them it has been so nice to just sit and talk and show them all their presents!  Lucas hasn't stopped following me around since I got here.  He is so excited!

Me, "Lucas!  I'm home."
Lucas, "Gasp! Glarb glarble glarbins."
Me, "Totally."

The trip itself was very tiring.  I my first flight left at noon, and because I had to take my Stick of Justice and Elias' lightning McQueen blanket, plus two carry-ons, I was constantly loaded down with a lot of weight.  The Stick and blanket may not weight much, but they sure were tough to juggle and not randomly whack people in the head with.

After that came the dreaded seven hour bus ride.  I slept awkwardly through most of that, and way too aware of how bad I probably smelled with nine hours of flight time under my belt already, but I made it. Ironically, after everything went so smoothly during that whole ordeal, on the very last leg of the trip, nobody was there to pick me up when I got to David.  I had made it all the way for it to break down there! It wasn't too bad though, I just grabbed a taxi and went home!

Me, "Elias!  I'm home!"
Elias, "Did you bring Minecraft?"

Since then it has been a flurry of movement.  I have this one day to get settled, and then immediately at 7 am tomorrow morning I am heading to David to look at a truck, and from there I am going to sign the contract on our house.  Karmy also just informed me that there is a very impoverished family that just had a baby and needs help, so we plan to put together a baby basket of sorts full of diapers and food, etc..., to help them get started.

If all goes well we will start moving our stuff on Thursday to the new house, and begin the whole process of getting settled into YWAM again.  I am excited, and know God has great things planned!

In the meantime, I have a full day crash course of acclimating to the culture again.  The visitors, the food, being stalked by employees in the stores who seem convinced you are there to steal everything you can find, and so much more!  Not to mention the fact that it's only five and the sun is starting to go down....

"Yes, I'll have some, uh, chicken?"

"Is that where baby Furbys come from?"

Here begins the new adventure!  God is so good!