Getting Leroy to MN

Salt Lake

Hello,

I had been having “vibes” about Brian and his family for some four or five days, consequently, I was not surprised when Leroy related the script of Brian’s phone call. By the way the call came in the morning and it was not until evening that Leroy had a chance to tell me the business about the stress related to sick children and lack of study/work time.

I suggested one of us should go there. We immediately started considering options and looking at flight prices for the next day. After Miriam and Andy had the kids in bed, they got in on the decision making process as Miriam is an expert at finding the cheapest flight price and Andy considered the cost of us both going and driving.

Would you believe that just that morning we had renewed our monthly membership for the rec. center? I was also interested in singing in the church choir concert for Sunday. After all I had spent a good bit of time practicing. For those reasons I urged Leroy to go alone rather than both of us going.

After coming to the conclusion that Leroy would go and fly because it would be cheaper than driving when going solo, we called Brian and Jen to find out if they would indeed like this offer of help. Perhaps because I have always been the one who comes alone to help, they were a bit put back to think that it would be Leroy. He did assure them that he could do childcare so they urged him to come.

Closest flight purchase to departure that we have ever done. The ticket was locked in at about 9:30 pm. and Leroy took off at 7:00 am. That meant that we got to bed late with washing clothes, packing, and saying good bye to each other. We were up early so Leroy could prepare, eat, and be driven to the airport. He had planned to take the light rail in MN, but Brian got out of class early so was able to pick Leroy up on his way home. It was a little dicey because Leroy had not turned on his phone immediately after landing and Brian tried to call him to let him know he was coming to the airport. Leroy turned on his phone just as he got to the rail stop. Luckily he had not yet bought a ticket and the distance back to where Brian would pick him up was not far. Some things do work smoothly if we just trust.

Paula