Lost in spain (almost)

Well…i’m home from our holiday in Benidorm…but just about!! i’ll explain more in a bit. had a really great time over in Benidorm, and i’m missing the weather already. taking the 5/6 days to chill out and relax after a busy busy year was amazing.

now to explain the title of this post. less than 2 hrs before our plane was due to leave…natasha and I were still in Benidorm (about 70km from the airport in Alicante) … and my passport had mysteriously disappeared. our transport to the airport had failed to show up and where my passport went I think i’ll never know…one min it was there…the next it was gone. panic stations.

we raised our prayers to the Lord for much needed help. I sent Natasha to look for a taxi whilst I sprinted to the bank to get money to pay for it. explaining the situation to the taxi driver, he put the foot down and got us to the airport about 20mins before check out was due to close. still the small issue of my lack of a passport!! sending Natasha on to check herself in (she wanted to stay with me but I insisted there was no point the two of us being stranded at the airport) I went about trying to figure out what to do about the passport situation.

Frantic sprints back and forth across the airport, between the helpdesks, police office, helpdesks, EasyJet’s office and the check in were taking their toll in the short time I had before the plane left. A phonecall to the British Embassy helped matters along, and somehow or other…I was allowed onto the plain. I shouldn’t have been on that plane, no way, esp not in today’s security tightened airports.

it was an AMAZING answer to prayer. Whilst I was going about doing everything, I was continuously praying to God to help me and to intervene. It’s when we need Him most that God shows His power. He led me to the right people that I needed to see to sort it all out…and they managed to have a good enough grasp of English to understand me (or if they didn’t, there happened to be someone there to translate, which was the case with one person). Gods hand was upon it all. Thank-you Lord.