April 28 we left for our New Adventure half way around the
world to St. Eustatius where Josh would be attending at St. Eustatius School Of
Medicine. We took 11 suitcases, 3 carry-ons, 3 personal items, a car seat and
our chariot stroller. We flew out of Calgary at 12:30am, Kids slept the whole
flight to Toronto, which was awesome, other then we had to wake them up when we
arrived in Toronto at 6am. Juggling 2 sleepy kids, plus 3 carry-ons and 3
personal items what quite something. Lincoln fell back to sleep at the airport
while we waited for our next flight. We grabbed something for breakfast and
flew out at 10:15am. This flight was 4 hours and 20 minutes. Lincoln was
amazing, he watched movies, ate breakfast, played with his toys. Lacey did
good, but soon got overly tired as she only slept 20 minutes the whole flight.
When we arrived in Sint. Marteen at 2:30pm she was well over due for a nap, but
that wasn’t happening, as we had to go collect our luggage (11 suitcases + all
our carry ons + our 2 children. We then had to go check in with Win Air, for
our 3rd and last flight of the day. By the time we did what we needed
before the flight we only had to wait for 30 minutes or so. Lacey was so tired
by then. Our flight was at 5:40 to Statia, it was on a 20-seater plane. That
plane was small. I’ve never been on a plane that I could see out the front
window and see what both pilots were doing the whole time! We arrived at
6:00pm; it was so nice to know we had finally made it. It was a long day of
traveling. It was so nice and warm! I think I can get use to this. We were
greeted with the Statia Church group, which was so nice to see some familiar
faces (Josh’s cousin Andy Bridge and his family, Brant Tidmarsh from school,
Josh and Hannah Farrell, and many others). They all helped us bring all our
belongings to our house, which was very nice, as we would of never of found it
on our own. The Statia Church group Relief Society left a welcoming basket at
our house to help us get through the first night till we could get to the
grocery store. This was such a blessing not having to worry about how we were
going to feed our family the next morning. Josh & Hannah (friends in our
church group) also brought us some supper over that night. Thanks Guys! We
couldn’t have done it without the all their helps, they we so welcoming. Since
