After thousands of miles, nearly 3 hours in delay, no phone for communication, and by the power of God I'm here.
The past two days have been quite eventful. Thursday morning 6:45, we were supposed to be on our way to Philly. Due to dense fog out flight out of Minneapolis was delayed nearly 1.5 hours, then again flying from Philly to New York, La Gaurdia, my flight was delayed because of fog and the previous back up.
Had no idea how Coach Bergstrom and I would connect at La Gaurdia because I left my phone at home, but a previous conversation in Philly with my mother and her concern let Coach Bergstrom know what was going on with my flights.
We met up and took a shuttle ride over to JFK, it's big. Thankfully the AirBerlin staff knew what they were doing there because I hadn't checked in online yet, all I had was my passport and a receipt for being on the flight, and I believe the receipt had Joshua Davis on it. It all worked out though because I'm now here.
Upon arrival we couldn't find one of Coach B's bags so we spent another couple hours in the Dusseldorf airport with legal stuff for that, hopefully his bag will be coming shortly. With our arrival, Sebastian was there with a sign to pick us up, Big Time.
First German meal, it's about 8:00 local time, McDon's, the McGriddles taste just like the American stuff no worries.
Leaving the airport we all were packed in the Tiger mobile, if we had coach's third bag, we wouldn't have fit.
Made it to my host families place close to 11, this means I've had maybe 4 hours of sleep in the past 24, that's actually not that bad, but dropped my stuff off quickly and met up with Chris Langstaff, the summer roommate.
We ran into town to get a sense of Osnabrueck, toured our practice facilities, had broccoli and schnitzel and then I was able to take about a 4 hour nap back at "home," the Klietsch residence and my home for the summer.
That night we had practice, which went surprisingly well, the guys have been at work and we've got some athletes. With a post party birthday celebration and finally leaving the buildings around 23:15, I was finally able to shower and get back into my bed and call it a night after a quick skype date with my parents.
What an adventure. Countless miles/kilometers, 36 hours without going to bed and only taking a few hours in naps, and too many introductions where I don't remember names; we are here!
Thank you for the prayers. Jesus is the Man with a plan.
Isaiah 6:8,
Joshua Aakre
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