tomorrow tomorrow...

Well here we are with less that 24 hours to go before our departure. We are packed (mostly) and I think we are ready - apart from having every possible paper and emergency accounted for in triplicate. Ah yes, the only thing we don't have yet is a flight from Jakarta to where we need to be. We are expecting to stay the night in Jakarta airport before flying in the morning. So the journey from start to finish is looking at being about 4 days - give or take a few hours difference. Oh my goodness. It does give a real sense of the distance that we are travelling.
Please pray for Luke and Isaac as we travel - that they will be happy and sleepy at the right moments and entertained. Also that they would have patience with grotty parents and that they do not lose their favourite teddies... can you imaging the distress?!
So Sunday - train to heathrow and hotel over night
Monday - fly to Hong Kong
Tuesday - take in the delights of Hong Kong Airport
Tuesday night - fly to Jakarta, hopefully stay in a hotel
Wednesday - fly to town.
WOW. I can't believe we are actually doing this for real.
It is hard to imagine that we have our lives in 4 suitcases and that our address is now on the other side of the world.
Please also pray for safety, easy flights, easy entry to Indonesia and quick settling in.
With much love and thanks for supporting us all through this transition so far,
Em for the family xxxx

never use ebookers...

today Paul rang ebookers to confirm the flights we had provisionally booked for Sunday and had taken card details for a deposit. After much horseplay and promised confirmation of payment and flight details etc, ebookers finally admitted that they had sold our flights to someone else. Rubbish or what. What's more they had had no intention of telling us - we have spoken to them every day this week and the whole time they let us believe that our names were on the list.
ANYWAY, Paul was a hero and managed to find flights from Heathrow on Monday so we will train it down on Sunday and stay the night in a hotel before our final departure.
Praise the Lord for the availability of flights, and although it seemed awful at the time, enforced relaxation before we travel is actually a good idea since we will hit the ground running on Tuesday (so God does know what he is doing after all!)
Well, the packing is almost done so I'm off to bed.
Love Em x

visas - the final episode (hopefully)

Well, paul collected the visas from the embassy this afternoon and jumped on a train home. WHOOOPPPEEEEE!!!!!!!!

It seems we are finally on our way!
Thank you all, again, for your emotional, practical , prayer and financial support - what a great team.
We are expecting to confirm flights for Sunday.
Watch this space...
Em