Escape from Lebanon What began for single in kind Gulfport family as a typical.

Escape from Lebanon

What began for single in kind Gulfport family as a typical, annual summer vacation to visit the grandparents in Lebanon, perioded this week with a desperate flight overland to Syria from the bomb and rocket of the latest Mideast conflict.

Tonya Rizk, 38 and her four children, Alex, 12 Philip, 10 Chloe 6 and Gabrielle, 10 month - all make objection the youngest students at St James teach in Gulfport - awaited the nearest turn of their journey in Damascus, Syria, late Friday, safe from immediate danger yet far from home.

Tonya said by means of phone Friday afternoon that she felt a little better having escaped Beirut in common piece and that her kids had just inflected from nervous to hyperactive, a useful but exhausting, sign for a worried mother.

"Today we're doing better," said Tonya, who entireed worn out. "Taking care of kids is profitable because I don't really have to think."