On The Road Again

Here we are once again on the road, heading south to Tennessee.

Samuel is better, but had a high fever on Sunday so decided to wait and leave out on Monday. It was a good decision as he slept through the night.

So we headed out, settled in and realized that the energy converter for the powerstrip isn't working. Yikes what will we do with no WiFi, no iPods, no laptops running? Ummmmm...... Maybe we might have an old fashioned conversation? Now that is a rare thought. :) But thank goodness we had the other plug for the portable DVD player for Mr. Samuel. :) Now, you may be wandering how I am posting this information? My clever Elizabeth figured out that the car charger for the Blackberry's will also charge the WiFi, yipee!!!!! Now Mom can jump onto the computer and post up my thoughts for those of you who are interested. :)

So, what am I traveling with close by my hands - plastic bags and paper towels!

Passing through the USA border control was interesting. I have never seen so very many cameras on one car ever! Gone are the days when I was a child and my parents just showed a drivers license.

We will miss the city life - public transportation with buses every 4 minutes and Metro trains every 6 minutes. It was a great experience for everyone.

The evening we spet in the ER of the Children's hospital will forever be impressed on our hearts as we saw a very sick Muslim toddler boy who had been burned and was in quite a bit of pain. The look of hopelessness on the families faces will be always remembered. And the single mom who's 5 year old daughter had been sick for three days. As our family hugged each other for the New Year in the midst of me and the other two little ones getting sick, tears came to her eyes. I don't think I will ever forget that we have everything as we have Jesus in our hearts and we have each other. What more could one ask for in this life?

A New Year to Remember

This was our 20th New Year together. The first was in the UK when I gave a party and this particular we were in the Emergency Room at a Children's Hospital! A night to remember. Samuel started getting sick yesterday afternoon in the shopping center. We had to travel back to the house via Metro with a plastic bag and paper towels for Samuel. Later in the evening I started, then Victoria. At 10:00pm we decided to make our way to the nearest emergency room as Samuel had not been able to keep even Pedilyte down. It was an experience. The emergency room was packed, many children throwing up and the place was absolutely filthy. OMG!!!! It was going to be a 5 - 6 hour wait for the doctor. They gave us a bottle of Pedilyte for Samuel to try to keep down. No one spoke a word of English - thank God Joabe was able to communicate in French. It was an experience never to forget. As we rolled the New Year in this setting and Samuel, Victoria & myself getting sick all I could think of was no one in the US would go for a health system like this! Nashville General was 150% better than this had to offer - it was chaos. About 1:00am I thought of call my dear friend, Dr. Karri, who is a Peditrician in Dallas. She was a God sent!!!! She told me not to worry about dehydration with Samuel until late morning. So we packed up and came home. Thank goodness it was not sub-zero weather, it was just cold and actually raining. JoJo proceeded to get sick when we got home. It was a rough night, but we made it. We are resting today and praying for a good day tomorrow.