Lets get on with it already! On November 11 Rebekah left Wisconsin for the HR conference in Paris ,France, followed by Labor Law training in London, England, and finally on to St. Andrews, Scotland. We were expecting that I would be able to join her once the work permit was approved in about another two weeks. Those two weeks quickly became six, and included a one week return trip to the U.S. for Rebekah. Once again God was showing us that he was in control, and that we needed to rely on him. With Rebekah gone and things winding down at work I had a very difficult time accepting this.
On December 21 Rebekah and I together boarded a plane bound for Edinburgh, Scotland. While there were a few delays at the Milwaukee airport, and another short delay in Newark, we arrived in Edinburgh only 45 minutes late. Considering all of the excitement that Rebekah had experienced on her initial journey, we did not have anything to complain about. When Rebekah was over here for her initial trip she was able to identify a house for us to rent. The house would not be available for us to move into until the 27th so we were “forced” to spend a week at The Old Course Hotel.
Rebekah and I were both able to confirm the hypothesis that airplanes are as good as a petrie dish when it comes to spreading germs. Rebekah was still getting over a cold that she had picked up on her way back to the states the week earlier. I had pick up a cold, and the jetlag had really allowed it to settle in. The first couple of days we just laid low, managing to venture out just enough to do a little Christmas shopping for each other.
