Who's sitting at the airport right now???

Have you ever had the dream that you get a phone call, and the person on the other side say, "Hi, it's me, I am here, I am at the airport, can you come pick me up?" I had this dream last week. The power had gone off at my house, which meant I couldn't get any of my work done, so I was forced to take a nap. When I woke up from that nap have dreamt I got a phone call from some new missionaries coming in a few weeks saying that were here and if I could come pick them up. Let me just say this is one of my biggest nightmare, that a team or someone would call me and say, "We are here, come get me!"
Well that nightmare came true yesterday, but it was not a missionary or team that was stuck at the airport, it was the AG National World Mission Director, John Bueno, (aka my boss) sitting at the airport. My first thought was I was dreaming, my second thought was oh my goodness I have to go get him.
As I went up to tell my roommate who was sitting at the airport, her first response was,"Yeah right Ellena, that is not funny." (She says I am always playing those kind of jokes on her, so she didn't believe me). When I told her I was serious that another missionary had got a call from his secretary in the States, that he missed his connecting flight and was now stuck at our airport. We jumped into action. Called the hotel found him a room, got in my car, and headed for the airport.
As you can imagine, I was a little stressed having to go to the airport, but to make me more nervous, my friend turns to me as I am driving and says, "When we get to the airport, do you want me to drive?" I looked back at her and said, "Is my driving that bad? I thought I was doing good." She responded back, "You are doing good, I just didn't know if you wanted to drive in traffic with Bueno sitting next to you." Well to make a long story short, I drove (did a great job, I don't think I shocked him), we had dinner and dropped him off at a hotel near by. This morning we got him back to the airport and hopefully he is on his way to original destination.


So what have I learned from this experience? First, dreams really do come true. Second, to stop playing jokes on my friends cause when something really happens, they will believe me. And third, to be ready for life's unexpected events.

Cross country adventure

Last weekend was my last weekend in Timisoara. My roommate had to go and get her car in Bucharest, and she didn't want to drive back by herself, so I let a friend drive my car from Bucharest, she followed him and then I drove back with my friend with my stuff. I worked out for all of us, cause she was able to follow someone, our friend got to visit his family, and I got back to Bucharest.

So on Sunday at about 11 am we packed up my car and I drove out Timisoara. I won't go into all the detail, it was pretty much an uneventful ride. Except we did sit for over a hour in a small village in traffic. Romania is the size of Oregon. It did take us about 10 hours to drive about 600 KM. That roughly 375 miles. So you do the math on how fast we were driving, it was anywhere from 40 miles/hour to about 75 miles/hour. (Actually that was my friend driving).

I think the stressful part was driving thru the mountains. The roads are so narrow and you have huge trucks passing you on the other side. The whole trip is on a two lane road. But I made it home safely.

I have decided that the next 2 weeks is going to be "Ellena Time." Time for me to relax, figure out how to drive in Bucharest, (All of the roads are torn up, it crazy), get settled in, and to catch up on some paperwork. And if I have time, read a book.

The nice thing is, well at least yesterday and today, the weather is cool. In fact last night, it started raining and has been raining all morning. I love it. But of course it needs to stop by 1 so I can run to the office, make some copies and then run to hair dresser. Don't want to have to drive out in the rain.