Its a small world

Okay, do you have the Disney song running through your mind?

It is amazing how small a world we sometimes live in. Some examples:

There were two other families from Ohio in our agency travel group: one from South Point and one from near Granville. It turns out that the family from South Point attends the Nazarene Church there. Carolyn is the Mission President for her church, a post I held at our church for the past four years. Since she is in our District, we attend the same yearly mission conference at Grove City each May.
The other family brought their 15 year old daughter. She attends Granville Christian School. This is one of the schools that Kayla's school regularly meets in athletic events so we should have a friendly rivalry going on now.

When we were in Tokyo, we met a family at the airport that was going to China to adopt a little girl from the Fujian Provence. This is the same province Rachael is from. We saw them later at the Great Wall and several times in Guangzhuo. I have no idea what their names were, we called them 'Alaska' because that was where they were from.

While on the Great Wall, we met a lady that is a professor at Ohio University in Athans, about an hour away from us. She and a small group of profs were in Beijing teaching for three weeks. She was kind enough to take a family picture of us.

Also, as we posted earlier, Dan was able to attend a Toastmasters meeting in Beijing.

So far from home, yet so many ties to it.