Off to Australia--together!

4:00am and it's time to start the day! We bounced (or maybe it was more of a crawl from the kids) into the car and hit the road by 5:15am. The flights to LA were wide open so we were able to sit together and enjoy the four hour flight to California.

When we checked in with Qantas in LA, Barbara the very nice agent told us every flight was oversold and unlikely that any of the standby's (Sara and the kids) would get on today. Not encouraging. However, we weren't discouraged, to a person, because we had prayed about this for many weeks (and had many friends joining us in the praying). Barrett quote: "Remember Seattle!", a call back to another impossible non-rev time that turned into an answered prayer.

We had some high quality Admiral's Club time before heading to the drama that every non-revver knows at the gate of an overbooked flight.

When we got down there, Barbara had a bit of sparkle in her eye. She thought she might be able to get some of us on (we were willing to split). Within 15 minutes or so of departure we hear, "Kaufman Party of 4, please check in".

Yes!

Our seats were scattered all over the plane but at least we were going to be on the same plane! But then another gift from God: a conversation here, a conversation there, and guess what.... I'm sitting three across with the boys and Sara is sitting next to Christa about 15 rows back! We were overwhelmed with thankfulness. Christa's quote of the day: "I just want to laugh out loud to God!", as she put into words how thankful we were to get on.

More on the flight later. For now, thank you for joining us in praying!