It was five years in the making, but we finally made it back to the Philippines! We loved our trip that we took in 2019, but COVID happened six months later and along with a lot of work responsibilities for Les our return was delayed. Earlier this year Pastor White began making announcements about this Fall's trip and we eagerly started making plans.
We were scheduled to fly from LAX to Manila, leaving Sunday, October 6th and arriving Monday, October 7th. We would arrive at approximately 6:15 p.m. We were then scheduled to fly from Manila to Mindanao at 9:00 p.m that night. Scheduled is the key word here.
On Wednesday, October 2nd, we started getting emails from Philippine Airlines. Our original flight from LAX would be on a smaller plane, departing about 90 minutes later and would be stopping in Honolulu for a brief refueling. No biggie, right? Well... that meant we would arrive around 10:30 p.m. and we would miss our connecting flight to Mindanao.
As is always the case with airlines, we were completely at their mercy! Thankfully, Sis. Aida in the office in the Philippines was able to help us all get our Mindanao flights changed to Tuesday afternoon.
Our group of 13 met at LAX on Sunday morning. After everyone got checked in and through security, we enjoyed lunch at PF Changs. Our flight took off on time and we were on our way!
I don't remember much about the flight. I know Les and both slept some. We made it through customs in Manila, then headed for baggage claim.
We were all a little worse for the wear, but we headed out and met Bro. Bong and his son. After loading everything in two vans, we were on our way to the Belmont Hotel for the night.
Although changing our flights delayed us, it turned into a blessing in disguise. We were able to get a pretty good night's sleep at the hotel and go shopping the next day!
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