July 13th 2006 @ 2am….
Well I am finally sitting on a bed waiting to sleep for a few hours before it all starts…again!!!
Yes we made here, we made it in one piece, yet our luggage did not! After arriving from our long haul, we awaited in anticipation our luggage coming through those beautiful black strips of plastic on the conveyer belt.
It started off quiet well! Then slowly but surely we hit the point of dread as we just watched as the same bags kept gliding past us over and over and over…then we heard the announcement!
“Any passengers that have just arrived from Copenhagen (that’s us!) And do not have their luggage please come to the lost and found office to make a report.”

Hmmmm…that was definitely the case for us, seeing that 15 bags had yet to be accounted for! Crap! So we rummaged through our ticket and got the luggage tabs (that always seem to be such a unnecessary thing, until something like this happens and then it clicks, “ah, this is why they stick these things on my ticket cover!”)
And start making the LONG report of bag, size, color, weight, brand, etc.

We found out that they were on the next flight to Riga that would arrive at 11pm (at this time being 6pm and none of us had really slept for over 24 hours).
They said that they would deliver the bags to where we were staying; so then we left in hopes of seeing our bags, and our sleeping bags later on that evening!

We hit the town for some yummy Pankukas and then just came back and rested and waited for our sleeping bags to arrive so we could get some sleep!
1:00 am could not come sooner! They arrived and we had all of our stuff! Praise Jesus!

(Not bad for a lost luggage story! God is so good to us!)

The next few days are days to acclimate and train for the camp that starts on Monday.

I wil write more when I get the chance!