Today is THE DAY!

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CANNOT believe it ... Today is THE D-A-Y!!! - the day we've planned for, prepared for, lost weight for, and prayed for! 

We're leaving on a jet plane, heading to a ship that will circumnavigate the world and be our home for the next few months! The super blood wolf moon complete with its eclipse started the day, and it is the perfect start for our trip. 


We were seen off on our voyage by so many friends and family this past week.  We've been wined and dined, sung to and toasted, prayed over and for, texted and telephoned, skyped and whatsapp'd!  Such an outpouring of love and well-wishes has overwhelmed us!  We are so very blessed, and we know it. Thank you, all!

A special shout out to Susan and Susan for breakfast, and to Dixie and Dolly for seeing us down the driveway, and to dear daughter for ferrying us to the airport.

Leroy and I have been weighed and measured by the TSA agents.  Although, we are very thankful they were here to see us off safely, given the government shutdown, it was still  quite an ordeal of dumping belts, shoes, coats, laptops, tablets, phones, cameras and scarves into an array of buckets.  It took us an hour to re-dress! 

So, we are off.  We ask God's blessing on our trip, and as the pastor prayed yesterday, may we be a light for God .... wherever we go!  Farewell for now ....

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  1. UnknownJanuary 22, 2019 at 10:10 AM

    Ahem, "dear daughter" needs a travel name too. She humbly suggests "Melba Jean". Glad y'all made it down there ok... happy boarding day!

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