Last night at the Parent's Tea and strudel social, Kelli Carpenter recounted that while trying to fly out of London back to Austria, she noticed that she accidentally booked her flight for a day later. Inquiring to see if she could just buy another ticket and fly back with her friends, she discovered it was going to be several hundred pounds more and decided that she would just spend the night in the airport, save the money, and fly out the next morning.
Yet, a family or angel(s) sent from heaven came to rescue her. These friendly strangers, took her to their house, fed her, gave her a place to sleep and even drove her to the airport at 4:00 AM to catch a flight back to Austria!
Moreover, Niki and I had a similar experience on our 10 day travels. Trying to make our way from northern Brittany in France to a Bed n' Breakfast, we were catching a connecting train and had asked two conductors as well as the information person which track to board. They all said track 5. We boarded at the proper time and when our train didn't stop an hour later, we knew something was wrong. I went to ask the conductor, who upon discovering that we were on the wrong train, charged us a lot of money and stormed off without offering any assistance. Some local bystanders came to our aid, and as we exited the train station, one particularly nice women who spoke English offered to wait there while her husband drove us 10 minutes away to a hotel for the night.
Truly, there are good people everywhere, and thank God for these angels who come out of nowhere to offer a helping hand!
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