For those of you who have offered to pray, we need some some serious petitions to go to the Father today and tomorrow.

Our first three days in London went just as planned.  Our group arrived safely and was gathered into the Hostel.  We walked to the British Museum and saw the originals of Austin, Handel, Leonardo, Gutenburg and many others there.  After appropriate oos and ahhhs, we returned to the hostel for snack and naps.  At 3:30, we sallied forth, jumped on a double decker bus and went to the British Museum for a few hours.  There are wonderful treasures there that my co-op students (with their thorough grounding in ancient history) enjoyed.  The most famous is the Rosetta Stone, but also not to be missed were the Assyrian freezes and gate statues, and the original friezes from the Parthenon, in Greece.

The next day, we arose and shone a little later than usual, and took a train to Warwick Castle.  There, we explored up and down, in and out.  We had great weather the two days: low 50's with cloudy sun.  No one could ask more!

Yesterday, April 1 (and my birthday) was a packed one, and we knew we'd really need to keep to our schedule.  Doing so, we saw Westminster Abby, the Tower of London, and St. Paul's Cathedral before coming back to our hostel for our left luggage.  We then had two hours to catch a British Air flight to Paris.  This is where the snag hit.

We had awoken on the night we arrived and realized that Scott had left the entire trip's Eurail passes (value: $15,000) at home.  We had used the miracle of email to get in touch with our staff back home and have them UPS us the tickets.  The hitch was, it was Saturday yesterday.  And our son, Nate, who ships every day with UPS, had gone and sent the package properly, except though he paid for Saturday delivery, and though he told them three times that it must be here on Saturday, they omitted to tell him to affix a Saturday sticker.

The tickets didn't come.  I am here in London, while Scott and the kids went on to France.  We REALLY need those tickets to come into our hostel on Monday before noon.  I need to leave this hostel at 12:15 to make my train to France to reunite with the group.  Please pray?