the state department would have assisted us in getting the proper paperwork in a timely manner, but they gave us no other alternative but to take the bull by the horns and hatch a plan that would work for us and would get my daughter, my grandson and acelyn s boyfriend to safety in slovakia. william, i know you practiced this, that acelyn did a couple dry runs, that you were tracking her via your iphone, i think, as it was going. but as a dad, it had to be hard, i macimagine. you didn t have a lot of good choices here, but it had to be hard waiting those eight hours to know that she was safe. it was incredible, because i m sitting there looking at find my friend and watching this little dot move. then it would stop for a while. i m thinking to myself, what happened, did someone get hurt?