Trek to Ireland: We're here!!

And we haven't slept in way too many hours to count. We got up yesterday, Friday, at 8:00 Texas time. It's now Saturday, 9:00 Ireland time, and we're just now getting to bed. It's been a loooong day (or two??) but we're here and we're alive! The host family we're staying with is super nice. David and Sherry are also staying at the same house with us. Partaaay :) A wonderful surprise: the house has Wi-Fi! So we shouldn't have any problems updating this blog, checking emails, etc. Hooray!

The flight to Chicago was fairly uneventful. And we survived the loooong flight to Ireland. The landing into Dublin was quite interesting. Apparently they had some serious wind and our plane was bouncing all over the place, quite literally. Talk about leaving fingernail marks in the seats! Anyway, we made it.

After we arrived in Dublin, we went to the Trinity church office building (which they just sold and have to be out of in 2 weeks, which is yet another reason we're working so hard to finish up some stuff!) to have an orientation, then meet our hosts. We drove to our hosts home and got settled. They live only a 10 minute walk from the beach!! we can't wait to see that! Afterwards, we met up with Kim Garrity and he showed us around downtown Dublin. We didn't really SEE much, it was more of a "this is something you may want to see" type thing. It was great because he showed us where the basic stuff was and how to get to it. Plus, I think we were all way too exhausted to actually do any real sightseeing.

Tomorrow, we'll head to church and then we're going out to the countryside to see some stuff. We're all really excited about that! Then, on Monday, we'll start our work with the church which is going to be really great. We can't wait! Please keep praying for our team as we are all completely, utterly exhausted! Here are a few pictures from today (yesterday?) for your viewing pleasure: