Sunday, 12 July 2009
My Dear Friends,
No change in the arm. Been taking the anti-nerve pain pill. It's not helping too much. Will go up to a slightly higher dose.
I was hurting a bit more than usual yesterday due to tension. It's an amusing situation, really.
We went to the airport to pick up my eldest's German friend, who will be staying with us for a couple weeks. Mark and our youngest waited in the car, moving on occasion when the cops made him.
We waited for two hours after the plane landed. People came trickling down the hall from Customs, a few Arabs walked with literally a cart full of suitcases each! If I packed all the clothes I own, it wouldn't take up that many suitcases. We figured it was taking Customs forever to go through all that stuff.
The area was practically cleared out, everyone having picked up their loved ones and departed. Still no sign of his friend.
Finally, we saw him coming towards us, flanked by a U.S. Customs official on each side. Looked like big trouble.
The older gentleman explained to me that he had been detained for "prohibited agricultural goods", not being honest with Customs and not knowing our address! They had confiscated the prohibited German sausages from his suitcase and told me that since he's a juvenile, they would not charge me the $300 fine! They released him to my custody.
WTF?
Mark later said. "Thank God they're protecting us from those dangerous German sausages!"
As we were walking to the car, the kid goes "Those were good sausages, too."
The irony was that Mark and I had separately joked that he was taking so long because he'd been caught smuggling sausages!
Oh well. They're all having fun now. I decided it's the boys' job to amuse our guest and my job is just to feed him, so I'm not going to worry about anything.
Please continue to pray for my arm.
Love,
Jeanette
No change in the arm. Been taking the anti-nerve pain pill. It's not helping too much. Will go up to a slightly higher dose.
I was hurting a bit more than usual yesterday due to tension. It's an amusing situation, really.
We went to the airport to pick up my eldest's German friend, who will be staying with us for a couple weeks. Mark and our youngest waited in the car, moving on occasion when the cops made him.
We waited for two hours after the plane landed. People came trickling down the hall from Customs, a few Arabs walked with literally a cart full of suitcases each! If I packed all the clothes I own, it wouldn't take up that many suitcases. We figured it was taking Customs forever to go through all that stuff.
The area was practically cleared out, everyone having picked up their loved ones and departed. Still no sign of his friend.
Finally, we saw him coming towards us, flanked by a U.S. Customs official on each side. Looked like big trouble.
The older gentleman explained to me that he had been detained for "prohibited agricultural goods", not being honest with Customs and not knowing our address! They had confiscated the prohibited German sausages from his suitcase and told me that since he's a juvenile, they would not charge me the $300 fine! They released him to my custody.
WTF?
Mark later said. "Thank God they're protecting us from those dangerous German sausages!"
As we were walking to the car, the kid goes "Those were good sausages, too."
The irony was that Mark and I had separately joked that he was taking so long because he'd been caught smuggling sausages!
Oh well. They're all having fun now. I decided it's the boys' job to amuse our guest and my job is just to feed him, so I'm not going to worry about anything.
Please continue to pray for my arm.
Love,
Jeanette
posted by Mark Kappe @ 3:30 PM
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