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| Eilidh's first trip to the beach. |
Four weeks ago we left the bitter
temperatures of winter in Ohio and made the 17 hour road trip to sunny warm
Florida. You may or may not recall that
Andy went to Florida in November 2011 for a rapid response trip to Missionary
Flights International in Fort Pierce. MMS
now send their apprentices in their final year, to work with MFI for three
weeks to gain experience on turbine engines and line maintenance. Andy has really enjoyed his time at the MFI
hanger and was able to cycle to work each day (Florida is very flat : 0). This has
been the first trip away that myself and the children have been able to tag
along! MFI has a trailer that visitors
can stay in and there was enough room to accommodate us all. Kirsten, my niece, was able to fly out for
our first two weeks and keep me company.
We were very sad to see her go.
It was great to have another pair of hands to play with Matthew and
Eilidh while I home school Abi. Abi was
able to link our sightseeing with a few school projects such as the Manatee, Citrus Farms, and obviously ‘The Beach’. The wild-life here is amazing and we have
seen Manatees, dolphins, wild alligators, pelicans and many other beautiful birds. We have been looking at space also and
enjoyed a super day out to the Kennedy Space centre.
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| Enjoying the Kennedy Space Centre with Kirsten. |
This July,
Andy and I will have been married ten years so we had planned a special
family trip to Disney World in our final
year of being in America. We had no idea
when we planned it two years ago, that part of Andy’s training would involve
him going to Florida so it worked out great.
Our friends Sam and Sommer Morel live in Orlando and we were able to spend lots
of time with them while we were in Florida.
Matthew also enjoyed his fifth
birthday in Florida. Making a cake was
not really an option (the trailer was not equipped for baking), and we would
never finish a store bought one as we were leaving Florida the next day. Instead he had five candles on a birthday bagel
for breakfast and we all went out for a slice of cake at a bakery that evening.
We plan to have a little party when we
return to Ohio.
We are now in North Carolina where Andy is completing
a weeks training course at JAARS (Jungle Aviation and Radio Services). Myself and the children are staying with the
Baisley’s for the week in NC (at last we have the internet : 0). JAARS is about
an hour and a half’s drive away. We will
all be returning to Ohio on Saturday. I
can hardly believe we will have been gone from Ohio for five weeks. Abi and Matthew and Eilidh are doing an
amazing job with all the changes that have been going on. Eilidh has just begun to crawl forwards, thankfully
she is still a little wobbly and slow but I have a feeling that as soon as we
get back to Ohio the stair gates/ socket covers etc. will be out. Although it has been an amazing experience, I am looking forward to putting the suitcases
away for a little while and getting into some sort of normality again.
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| Abi getting a peek inside a DC-3 |
Please pray for Andy as he completes this
week’s course. Please also pray for my dad in Scotland who has liver
cancer. He was due to get out of
hospital last Friday after a small procedure but has still not been released
due to abnormal blood test results. We
thank God for His protection on the roads and for the way he has kept our car
going so smoothly. Thank you all for your support. We would not be here if it was not for our amazing
team of supporters.
Heatherx
