Okay, time changes dictated that Feb. 18th would be a 39 hour day! It started at 6 am Brisbane time (3pm Tuesday eastern time) and after 33 hours of flying, laying over, going through customs, flying some more, getting caught in delay in Chicago, finally leaving Chicago after midnight, landing at 1am, seeing Drew Brees (QB from New Orleans Saints) in the baggage claim area and realizing he was on our flight from Chicago, finding out my bag was lost, finally leaving the airport at 2am, driving back to pick up my car at Church at the Crossing, and making my way through blowing snow to Pendleton, I finally arrived home at 3am. It took about 1/2 hour to wind down a bit and get to sleep. And then...it was time to get back to work again this morning at 9:30am.
I'm sure it will take a few days to get fully recovered. And if you don't like flying, a trip like this is probably not all that exciting to think about. But even though it was only a week, and even though the travel was extremely long, this was still the trip of a lifetime, and I will look forward to the next opportunity to be with my new friends in Australia and to take Carlotta and Camden along.
This weekend is Camden's birthday party in Elizabethtown, and then on Monday I'm flying to Atlanta with the Crosspoint team and a couple of guys on our launch team for a church planting conference. I'll post a blog from there on Monday about highlights and where Catalyst is headed.
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