Just so you don't worry throughout the entire blog, we did make it home safe and sound. Otherwise, I wouldn't be writing this blog!

Just four days ago on Wednesday night, we went to visit the church in Castilla. Because it was "missions emphasis" night, the pastor had invited Daniel to preach. We had already visited the church once before on a Sunday, so we knew how to get there. We arrived on time, Daniel shared his sermon, we fellowshiped with the people of the church and said our goodbyes. As we left, I sat in the back with Eliana since she was sleepy and a little fussy.

We easily found the main highway that we were supposed to take that would go right by our house. After about 20 minutes, I looked out the window and realized that I didn't recognize anything. Daniel was sure we were still on the right road because we hadn't turned off... but something was wrong. We started looking for street numbers (street signs can be rare and what there are tend to be miniscule) and the numbers were correct. But things looked "wierder" and "wierder." As the city lights began to diminish and the road took us by numerous factories and continued to climb up the side of a mountain, we finally realized that we had taken the main highway correctly - but in the wrong direction! Instead of heading north, we were all the way in the south of Bogota - almost leaving the city! Since there are no highway signs indicating if it's north or south, it's a fairly easy thing to do. In confirmation, we noticed that the street signs said "south" in very small letters on the bottom of the signs. 

For those of you who know Bogota, you know that the further south you go, the more problematic the city. As we turned around, and headed back home, we thanked the Lord for keeping us safe. He kept us from getting a flat tire, or running out of gas, or getting into a fender-bender, all of which would have been very bad situations at 10:00 at night "on the other side of the track" if I may use that terminology.

We arrived home and breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Thank you all for your continued prayers for our safety!

And now we pay more attention to the side street signs... when we can find them.