Friday night Cason and I met the team at the airport promptly at 8:46. They were exhausted but in good spirits. I think each one of them would like to go back sometime soon.
We had a helper as we headed out.
Don’t call CPS that suitcase was actually empty. See, the church collected a bunch of Halloween and fall items to send over to the Gerecke’s so they can host families in their home all through the fall. Everything took up 2 large suitcases that were included in their checked baggage.
They got to Lisbon and the luggage and the team would not all fit in the Gerecke’s car for the trip to Coimbra so they left the 2 suitcases with decorations behind to pick up when they returned to Lisbon a week later. When they picked them up and emptied all the items into Cristi’s car and then tried to figure out what to do with 2 large empty suitcases. Kim was able to put her full suitcase inside one of them but there was no more consolidating that could be done so mike dumped half his stuff into it and flew home with two half full suitcases. You do what you have to do.
Anyways, back to the picture. Cason was pulling an empty suitcase. The people staring at us at the airport didn’t know that though. I kept telling him to hurry up and he kept saying “it’s heavy” in a sad voice. I got some strange looks.
