Tuesday April 14, 2009

This is awful!! The primary and detouring tracks are flooded. The Red River runs north, and Fargo is flooded because the lake that the river dumps into is still frozen over. Stupid weather. However, Amtrak is getting busses for us to ride, which will take us from Minot over to the Twin Cities. The bus will take ten hours to reach its destination, but worse things have happened.
Besides that, everyone on the train is really nice. We get to sit down to our meals with two other people—complete strangers—and chat. The train is a community full of older married couples who have a lot of life experience and advice. Our neighbors across the aisle are a retired elementary teacher, Dan, and a retired school secretary, Eileen. They are my favorite out of everyone we have met on the train, so I am glad we see them often.
As was the case in Seattle, everybody is excited for us, a further sign that we are doing the right thing. God has planted this desire in our hearts, we’ve prayed about it, and He has not sent a soul in our path to discourage us from doing this; in fact, we are getting green lights from every direction. No worries, Alex and I believe and have faith that this was the plan from the moment we were placed in the protection of each other.
We already miss everyone, which explains all the phone calls we are making. Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and this seems to be the case with us immediately.