It's been high drama getting our graduate Benjamin Streit home to Canada from Texas.
His plane sat on the runway at DFW for 2 hours before they cancelled all flights due to a big storm. Nowhere to go. All hotels booked. Big thanks to Sister Julia Yuill who stayed up all night with us from California and managed to get Ben THE VERY LAST HOTEL ROOM AVAILABLE.
His credit card didn't arrive in the mail in time and no one would take ours over the phone. Finally figuring that out, he took a $50 taxi ride to go the 4 miles (maybe 7 miles?) to the hotel, where he finally could lie down at 4 a.m., with no luggage, which is still on the plane.
Everything is now pushed back 2 days. 2 days late for the $900 Canadian government no-changes, no-refunds mandatory quarantine hotel in Calgary. (We got it cheap. The Yuills priced it out at $4-5K!)
The entire itinerary was already set in place, but the 2-day delay messed it all up. It's been a vicious cycle. Can't book the quarantine hotel without first booking a plane ticket, can't book a plane ticket without first booking the quarantine hotel, can't book either without yet another ADDITIONAL Covid test for $275 (although he is fully vaccinated), can't book the new Covid test without knowing when he's flying out, as the test has an expiry date. Crazy!
After Ben, Sister Yuill and I stayed up all night working on this (and with special thanks to Brother Danny Young from our Hurst church for his help), finally ALL worked out except not yet being able to re-book his expensive flight home from Calgary on Friday after his 3 nights in Hotel Quarantine.
If they can't change his ticket home, we may drive to Calgary and pick him up, even though the BC-Alberta border is closed due to Covid.
Please remember Ben in your prayers! As always, and with the Lord's help, quoting the words to the song he gave me last summer, it's ONE IMPOSSIBLE TASK AT A TIME!
