Just a quick update from Oxford!

Hannah and Valerie met me at LAX. From there, we headed to Denny's for a long leisurely breakfast. It was so nice to be reunited with friends! Hannah was sad that she couldn't be going with us, but still excited for us to be able to go. After Denny's we tried to go the beach, but the traffic was terrible, so we hung out at Border's briefly. And of course, we got a cop to take a picture of us outside of the airport!

Valerie and I had an easy flight, though neither of us were able to get any significant sleep. We haven't slept (or brushed our teeth) for thirty hours! We met a young English teacher named Lisa who was traveling by herself. She was meeting up with a tour group in the morning. How scary!! I'm so glad that I have Valerie here to help find things with!

At Heathrow airport, we met some of Valerie's family to give them a suitcase full of gifts packed by her aunt...unfortunately British Airways misplaced it!! They promised it would be sent shortly to Val's relative's house. Keeping our fingers crossed!#

From there we took a train to Hayes...a pretty "ghetto" seeming part of London. We tried to help an Asian woman who spoke NO English find her train...but we had no idea what we were doing and I'm afraid we completely mislead her! We prayed that someone kind and more knowledgable than us would come quickly to guide her! As we waited on the train platform, Express trains would zoom passed us, making both Valerie and I jump and sending out hair and any loose papers flying everywhere. They are loud and VERY FAST! We finally found our train, boarded and sat next to a lovely father and daughter, John and Caroline, who were on their way to watch the girls rowing competition (regatta?). They were wonderful and gave us many fabulous tips and even better conversation for nearly forty minutes.

Once they left, it was just Val and I in our area...and I found myself falling asleep on accident!

That brings us to Oxford. Today we saw Christ's Church and ate dinner (Beer-battered fish and chips) in the Eagle and Child--the very pub that C.S. Lewis, Tolkien and the other Inklings used to gather at. So exciting (and yummy!).

I'll have to fill you in on the rest of Oxford later.

Keep praying for us please!