This week....

This week
Tuesday he called from the Houston airport when he was getting ready to leave. He called from the Atlanta airport when he got there and before his flight to Dubai. He sounded excited and a little scared. I tried not to sound mortified. I want him to be safe but now that he's actually going I want him to get a good experience from all of this and to enjoy the good parts. I still won't ever forgive the person responsible for taking him there. I spent all day Tuesday on the computer figuring out the schedule for the church picnic, shopping list, what I need to bring from church, that kind of thing-yesterday I spent all day on the couch sick as a dog. We had a huge thunderstorm after 4 days of intense heat and our power went off Tuesday night around 7. I woke around 4 with awful back pain and took 1/2 a vicodin, but it only worked about 2 hours, and I ended up taking another 1/2 around 9am that made me really sick. Must have been because I took it with all my other meds. I had to call our council head for church and bag out of our monthly council meeting. I had a lot of business to take care of so that wasn't good. They need to find out what's wrong with it and fix it. so anyway...Drew called last night from Dubai. He sounded tired (it was 3:15 there) it had been a long flight (14 hrs) wedged between to fat men. (poor Drew) he had taken some tylenol pm hoping it would help him sleep, but it made him jittery instead. After checking into the hotel and taking care of business, him and a coworker hopped in a cab and drove around Dubai to see the sights. He said it was a wild town with a lot of night life and lights. Sounds to me like a middle eastern Time Square. He wasn't sure when he would go to Baghdad. Either today or tomorrow, we'll have to wait and see. I told him to make sure he said his prayers. He said he would. I believe he will.