First day of adventures

As I write this, I am sitting in a small apartment on an indian mission in Phoenix, AZ. Why? Becuz we have a pastor's conference to go to this week of course! So let me bring you up to speed. Thursday night we stayed at Shannon's mom's house becuz our flight left at 5:45 am on Friday. I got maybe 4 hrs of sleep that night before waking up at 4 to go to the airport. We got there, checked in, and got through security without a bump in the road. Then the fun began. When we got to the desk for our flight, they told us they closed the door with 10 minutes til flight time to make sure it left on time. We were there 7 minutes before. So we missed our flight by 3 minutes. So our options were this: wait until 6pm to get the same flight to Phoenix or take a 7 am flight to Charlotte and then get a non-stop to Phoenix at 4:30pm with the chance of being boosted up to the 9:30am flight. So we waited around for awhile and got on the the one-hour flight to Charlotte. We landed and practically ran to the concourse for the early flight. We learned that people had been waiting since 7 to get on it so chances were looking bleak. But thankfully we were the last ones called and we made it on. It was a five and a half hour, non-stop flight on an A317 Airbus. We landed about an hour ahead of schedule. So we got our bags and took the shuttle to the rental car area. Unfortunately, we had some trouble with the car rental and after trying everything we could think of, took the shuttle back to the airport almost 3 hours later. We then took a shuttle to where we are staying. We walked about a half mile to a KFC and got some dinner and then grabbed some munchies from the gas station and walked back. I was completely wiped out. Our day's stats were this: 2 hours riding in cars, 4 hours of waiting, 6 and a half hours on planes, and at least an hours worth of walking all day. Technically, our day was a 26 hour day becuz AZ is two hours behind the time at home. I fell asleep on the couch and eventually made my way to bed. With as long as our day was, I have high hopes for today! It MUST be better than yesterday. God must have great things in store for us this week!