our trip to Zoe {for you detail-loving folks}

We'll sleep until morning on July 3. Knowing our kids, that'll be around 6am.

We'll take the kids to our friends' house mid-morning.

We'll come back and try to sleep as much as we can during the day. 

(Please, please, please pray we will get sleep then. Please. Especially for Lee, who doesn't sleep as easily during daytime as I do. As you read on, you'll see why we need it.)

We'll set an alarm, but even if we sleep through it, a friend is taking us to airport, and she'll wake us up.

 

We'll head to the airport, arriving around 3:00 to be safe.

We'll fly out at 5:10 to JFK.

We'll have six hours-ish in JFK for... um... whatever JFK has to offer. 

We might meet up with some travel buddies at JFK, but that's a story that will have to wait until it happens.

We'll get on a plane at 1:45am Eastern time on July 4. 

We'll fly for 15 hours and 50 minutes.

We hope to sleep for enough of that to be rested. (Please pray that God will allow that.)

We'll arrive in Taipei at 5:30am, Taiwan time (which is 12 hours ahead of NC, so it's 5:30pm on July 4 Eastern time).

We'll head from the international airport in Taipei to the domestic airport and catch a plane from Taipei to Taitung, leaving at 11:30am and lasting about 50 minutes.

Our friends in Taitung will pick us up from the airport.

They will take us to the church in Taitung.

Zoe will be waiting for us at the church.

It will be completely worth it, but this means that we will arrive at RDU at 3:00pm Eastern on July 3 (which is 3:00am on July 4 in Taipei) and we will arrive in Taitung and immediately meet Zoe on the early morning hours Eastern time (or the afternoon Taiwan time) on July 5. That's about 36 hours of travel, if you're keeping track.

We will be tired.

But we will have our daughter.

Praise be to God. 

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In the next few days, I'll be posting details about the trip home and some details about what we'll do while in Taiwan. Thanks for praying through the details with us!