At the Philippines airport baggage claim there are 4 boxes for every bag that comes out!

After an 11 hour fight we finally made it to the motherland. On the flight we ran into a couple familiar faces. The first was a guy who sitting next to me across the aisle. His not so subtle glaring forced me to just look him straight at his face to figure out what this person had against me - it turns out it was Micah, a face from the old Xtreme days (Young adult ministry at New Hope). He used to play bass on the worship team. 

Lynnette spotted the second familiar face, walking into the bathroom. So I got up and stood by the bathroom door and used my airplane stalking skills, trying to look natural hanging out by the bathrooms without actually needing to use the bathroom. After he had done his duties, Billy Manini walked out. This is another good friend from our ministry's past. He was on his way to meet his wife in Cebu for Christmas.

After landing we got our bags and found Nolan and David waiting for us in a sea of people, and Nolan's uncle drove us through typical insane traffic that is Manila.