New York New York

After eight days in a desolate region and 10 hour train ride followed by an hour car ride followed by a 10 hour plane ride we found our selves strained in New York. Our plane circled JFK for 45 minutes, taxied down the runway what seemed like another 30 minutes. We ran through the terminal with only minutes to spare waited on luggage and ran to another terminal across the highway down an icy slope pulling my luggage out of breath hoping to get home. We found our flight that we were already late for but hoping it would be late too was CANCELED!!! Stood in line with the other hundreds of people who's flights were canceled for 3 hours. Tired ,stressed, wore out completely and the line didn't move for 2 hours. 650 flights were canceled that night.

Thank God for my daughter Tiffany who was truly amazing, she was on the cell with me on the computer with the airlines on the phone with the hotels, Before long we had a great hotel room at the Majestic Hilton downtown Manhattan over looking ground Zero and the Statue of Liberty. The only thing available,Thank you GOD!

We went from pure hell to pure Heaven, 50Th floor over looking New York at Christmas,with no where to go until Monday. It was like a dream. We shopped, walked, took in the sights I loved it.Its nothing we could ever really afford but we had no choice,there was no trains,planes or automobiles available for 3 days. So we just embraced it all and rested and enjoyed being back in America.

We will return to Ukraine about the 19Th of January to bring our daughter home. Hopefully that trip will only be about 2 weeks. It was a very long hard trip with allot of ups and downs ,We will need to rest to take it on again.

I learned allot, was challenged physically, spiritually. I really enjoyed the fashions in Europe, and was surprised with New York's . We were stretched to the max and then rewarded to the max. We were so blessed in the midst of chaos , no matter what the situation God made sure we were comfortable with first class accommodations whether plane or hotel it was always the only option left . A year ago a prophet of God spoke over us and said God was going to cause us to travel and had lots of surprises for us, Boy did He!! Bye for now, we will resume when we return to Europe at the end of January, We will see what other surprises God has for us.