What a big week it's been!  From deciding on Monday morning to go (if Maddi's passport got through) to being up in Perth on Friday collecting her passport to hopefully flying to Holland next Monday!!  Everything has gone so smoothly this week from passports to tickets to finding wonderful people to look after Bianca, Angus and Xavier.  it was very unfortunate but I didn't have time to clean the house...:)  Even the trip to Perth went smoothly.  The little car wouldn't start only once and that was solved quickly with a few taps of a crescent in the right spot (which Steve had nicely spray painted silver so I would find it easily).  The only other problem was trying to open a can of Monster Energy Drink (I thought it would help keep me awake).  The only person I could think of to tell me how to do it wasn't available, so I did the next best thing and stopped next to a school bus of teenagers at the next service station...

We are staying at Ron and Anne Bosveld's house whilst in Perth where we have been made to feel very welcome.  It was during the first few hours there that I discovered something, or rather 3 somebodies had snuck into our suitcases!!  They were a ladybird, a shark and a giraffe!  And they told me their names were Bianca, Angus and Xavier, just like Maddi's brothers and sister!!  They begged me to let them come to Holland and so I told them they could as long as they behaved themselves and weren't too noisy.

Feeling a bit guilty, are you?

 




Getting some fresh air after being trapped in a suitcase
in the little green car.



We are very thankful to God for protecting us on the road and letting things fall into place so smoothly and we also pray for His blessing on the coming journey as well as providing everything everyone at home needs.