Plane Tickets!

Ok, so if you are on this blog then you probably already know, but I am going to Athens, Greece this summer for two months to work with a missions team helping Muslim refugees.  It's a big adventure, and I've set up this blog so that I can share the ups, downs, and crazy turns that God takes me on through this journey.

Speaking of journeys, after months of being asked when I leave for Greece, I finally have my plane tickets that tell me when this journey officially starts! I'm going to be flying out of the Indianapolis airport at 3:30pm on Sunday, May 29th.  I will have about an hour's layover each in Minneapolis and Paris, and then arrive in Athens at 2pm Monday, May 30th.  Almost 24 hours of travel time! I'm kind of looking forward to it though.  It's definitely going to be an adventure, and I feel like it will be an exhilarating start.
On my return trip I stop at the same places, leaving Athens at 6:30am (ugh) Tuesday, August 9th , and getting back to Indy at 5:30pm.

I'm only 10 days away from flying halfway around the world for two months.  Wow! Every time I talk about this trip, or someone else mentions it the word "excited" gets used, and I think that that is a pretty good label.  I've been thinking about and preparing for this trip for months, and now it is almost here.  It's going to be big, but it's also going to to be amazing and difficult and strange and wonderful in so many ways that I can't even imagine yet.  Whatever happens though, I know that I'm going to grow through it, and that is the most exciting thing of all!