Well, just got back this morning from my big trip. I left Guinea and flew to Kansas City to attend Jonathan’s graduation from Blue Valley West High School. Andrea was with me. We had quite a shock when we got to Atlanta and found out that we had two different flights from Atlanta to Kansas City!! And everything was booked solid. When I finally told them that Andrea was only 13 years old they were able to work something out for us and we traveled together.

The graduation was really nice. Joel and Gramma and Grampa Heiney all came down from Michigan, so we had quite a reunion! It was just a great couple of days. Soon after the graduation the Michigan crowd took Andrea and headed back north. Two days later I boarded a flight headed to Europe and then Kenya for a financial manager’s meeting there.

Kenya was really fun too. We did get everything done that we wanted and made a little time for seeing some of the local animal population…the elephant orphanage and the giraffe park. Awesome animals all!!

My flight home took me through Dakar where I laid over for 9 hours. So I got to spend time with Katie. She’s doing well and is in the midst of exams. She will get home this Thursday, so we’re real excited about that. Just arrived home this morning (the 2nd of June) at 6:00 AM. In order to ARRIVE at 6:00 you have to leave pretty early. My flight was from Dakar at 3:45 AM!! That’s when all the action is at that airport. So today was a lot of catching up and sleeping!!

Tim is in the Forest and will be there until later this month, so we won’t even see him until he gets to the USA in early July!! A long separation this time. Katie and I leave on the 11th for the US. We’ll go through Minnesota for a Volunteer Coordinator’s meeting, then on to Michigan. A lot of traveling these few months. Thanks for your prayers for us!!

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