The Xenia group at Cleveland Airport
The Xenia group (Abby Smith, Caleb Dingus, Matthew Somers, Nathan Herr, Sam Vine, and Shari Vine) left Cornerstone Bible Church at 6:30 pm. After a 3 hour drive that pastor Bill graciously handled to Cleveland, we spent a very short night in a hotel and woke up at 4:00 in the morning to grab our flight. Pastor Bill dropped the team off with all the bags and snacks we could carry and we boarded our first flight to Los Angeles. The whole crew minus Sam Katon were together on one row of the plane. One side of the row slept the whole way and the other side watched out the window at the mountains, farmland, and desert we flew over. The four hour flight was smooth and uneventful. It felt long, but the far longer 11 hour flight ahead of us put it into perspective. Sam Katon had a more eventful flight and is currently delayed in Denver after leaving from Kansas City. We hope to have him arrive and meet us right before boarding. We are waiting on our 7 hour layover in LA praying for safety, brushing up on our Japanese, doing math homework, planning our day of sightseeing, and continuing work on the VBS material.
~ Caleb Dingus on behalf of the Japan Team
Does the Tokyo sign mean we’re there? The Xenia group on our way through the LAX airport