Well it's been an eventful couple of days since we began our journey. We just wanted to update all of you and ask that you pray for the remainder of our travels back to the States.
Thursday morning started out normal enough; we settled the kids in the car, packed up our bags, checked and double checked to see if we had everyone's passports and started off for Zagreb. We had a pretty good idea of how we wanted our trip to Hungary to go; we needed to stop in Zagreb at the American embassy to renew Thomas' passport, that was supposed to take about a week so we had planned to stay with some friends in town while we waited, after that we'd continue on to Hungary where we could visit some friends until we would catch our flights out of Budapest on the 13th.
So, a little past halfway on the way up a mountain, something blew in the engine of our van. Thankfully there was a space to pull off the highway that was right by one of those emergency phones. Tim called the service and they came about forty five minutes later, they agreed with Tim that we would need a tow truck. The service men called the tow truck, who arrived after another hour, bringing a rental car with it so we could continue to Zagreb while they towed our van back to Split.
So, a short little trip that should have taken four hours at the most turned into an all day event! We arrived in Zagreb about 6:00 that night. We were able to use the rental car until Friday at noon and thankfully the airport where we needed to drop it off was close to the Embassy, because they are both out a bit out of town. So, we were able to get the paperwork done for Thomas' passport, we still need to wait about a week for them to process it.
So, it was a little more difficult using the public transportation around the city with the kids instead of our van It was an interesting day yesterday getting back to where we are staying, but the kids got to experience their first tram and bus! We are thinking we will take the train up to Hungary now, please keep that in your prayers!
We also ask that you pray for Oliver, this morning he woke up with a fever, threw up and has been pretty lethargic all day. Please pray that this sickness passes quickly and that it doesn't get passed around!
So, we know that while we may have planned our way, the Lord directs our steps. These circumstances may not have been according to our choosing but we know that the Lord has a purpose in all of it. We just ask that you keep our little traveling troupe in your prayers:
- Thomas' passport to come back as quickly as possible.
- The huge expenses we've incurred by our breakdown, tow, and rental. Not to mention the cost to fix our car when we get back.
- Oliver to get better quickly!
- Our travels up to Hungary.
- Our flight back to the States.
Thank you and much love from the Warholics!
