11 weeks and 6 days...

So do you know what is even more amazing than us blogging twice in the same week?

WE BOUGHT OUR TICKETS TO BRAZIL TODAY!!! Yes friends, and we are SO EXCITED!!! (just a slight understatement). We're really going!

And this is how it all went down...
We've been looking at tickets for ages (weeks actually), and trying to figure out all the nitty gritty details of getting a good deal, leaving at a good time, flying into the right airport in Brazil, who's going to pick us up, and not getting a ticket where you have to change airports (some tickets we've looked at want you to not just change planes, but airports, and pay for a shuttle and transfer from Newark to JFK in New York! With all our stuff! No thanks.) This is not quite as simple as buying a ticket thru Southwest from SeaTac to Kansas City. Whew!

So I came home from work today and Brian said "guess what I bought today?" And I said "our tickets to Brazil?!?!!!" And he said "yep!" And I hugged him and jumped up and down all over the kitchen. That's how it happened :) I'm mentally checking "buy tickets" off our big fat "To Do" list!

So now here're the details: We are leaving on January 27th, on a domestic flight from SeaTac to JFK (thru LAX!) Then we get on our international flight and after one stop, we'll finally land in Fortaleza Brazil at 2:00am on January 29th. Then we'll still have about 8 hours of road trip before we get to our new home in Natal...

Thanks so much for praying for us as we take baby steps of faith, and occasionally a little hop out of our comfort zones. It's totally amazing how God's been providing $$$ for our tickets and a great deal online where we were able to get both our tickets for a total of less than $1800! Keep praying for us as we

• Try to choose which 280 pounds of our possessions to take with us.
• Apply for our visas.
• Prepare, both emotionally and spiritually to live in a foreign and unknown culture to us.
• Continue to trust the LORD, our Jehovah-Jireh to provide for us.
  
• Still have 1,000,001 details to be distracted and caught up with before we leave...

Thanks friends!
Love,
Jocelyn (and Brian)