FROM LONDON

Good morning everyone!!

It is Sunday morning here and we are staying at a series of wonderful homes in Chingford, Walthamstow area in the northeast of London.

We arrived quite safely close to 7:am London time yesterday. There were some adventures getting to our billets as we took the underground to travel diagonally across the city. Because the price of leaving our bags at the airport would have been prohibitive (about $500USD) we had to take most with us and only leave the largest. That meant scrambling with our heavy bags through trains and buses with far more transfers than normal due to construction and therefore a ton more walking. What should have been an hour journey to our billets was over two. And since we did not clear the airport until after 9:00am, it was almost noon by the time we got there. We were exhausted to say the least.

Our billets are wonderful and gracious....obviously gifted in hospitality as well. They fed us right away, gave us time to nap and then we met as a team for a few hours of de-brief and discussion. After this our billets picked us up an took us to a home which hosted a wonderful reception for us and our hosts (about 30 people or so) and then to bed for a good night sleep.

Shortly we will be heading to church where we will take about 1/2 of the service, and then we will head into the centre of London and be tourists for the afternoon.

We fly our tomorrow and then home.

On that note - I think that Kapteyns, John Stanford, Weeses, Stogryns, Veits, Andrew and Dawn will be at the airpost to meet us. If not....well, we've just come back from Ghana and we are used to the un-expected, so we'll run with what happens!

Once we get through the airport inspections and such, we will need to gather for a moment before anyone leaves just to make sure that we can say good bye to each other in a less rushed way.

So! We'll see you tomorrow.

And please continue to check the blog over the next few weeks as we post more pictures, video material etc....

Later

Daryl