The Third Phase of a long Journey

We started very early Thursday, May 31. I opened the garage door at 5:30 AM and John was in my driveway, 45 minutes early. For those of you who do not know our Youth minister, John Dollar, he just loves to cut it close on time. I recovered from my stroke and so the day began. We flew from ATL to London by way od LGA and bus to JFK. We were late departing JFK, but only sat on the runway for a little over an hour which was alot better than February.

We got to London on time at 6:30. We landed in Gatwick and took a train to Victoria Station, and after much confusion we ended up taking a London taxi to the hotel. The tube was going to cost 22 L, or $45 and the taxi was only $20 so it was faster and a bargain to boot. The hotel is very nice but the lifts do not seem to be working. We took a nap then went to lunch. We walk the streets for a while and viewed the many tourist traps, saving the good for tomorrow when we are rested. Aaron and I will go to Stamford Bridge for a tour of the stadium that his beloved Chelsea Futbol team plays, Robin is wimping out and going to do some walking and window shopping in some of the more "fancy" places in London. I will leave that part for her report.

We are all on pins and needles. We can pick up Deniss on Monday morning and he never has to go back. Hard to believe someone can wait that long to have a family. So many years no mom, dad or brothers and sisters, but finally he will have it all, just no sisters. I will update the blog daily from this piont on. I will being adding pictures as time and weather permits.

I am closing for now so that we can feed our face once again and try to get a full night sleep tonight. For now may God bless and keep all of you safe in the days to come.

One last request, our Church is sending a group to Mexico this week . Robin, Aaron and I usually go with this group but we could not figure out how to be in two places at once so we chose to pick up our new son. There are alot of you out there praying for the Hartzog family so just add this group to your prayers also. If you are interested in what they are doing please visit www.casaporcristo.org . We have being going for a couple of years now, so please pray for the group and especially for Alan if he needs to go out at night.