Monday, March 11, 2013

Spring Break in NOLA, First Morning

The kids, the ones in public school, have spring break for the week March 11-15. As soon as the new year started, Amy began mapping out her trips for the year including plans for this week. She proposed this trip for us from Texas and just hoped that there was a possibility that Jenny in Florida could make it with her munchkin, Zoe. Jennifer, Jenny, didn't bite on the invite and we didn't expect she was going to be able to get here from so far with extra budget constraints (expecting new baby and starting military ministry).
What a trip! Oh my word, the drive from Texas to NOLA always has a 70% chance of getting very irritating as soon as we cross the state line. This was one of those trips. It took us 3 hours and two movies to move 45 miles. Ugh!!!! Crazy enough our kids were fantastically patient during this delay. Amy and I on the other hand had a hard time keeping our cool. And we were hungry. You would think knowing the likelihood for traffic we would know to eat early. I don't know, we had plenty of snacks. I just was craving a horse, I mean a burger.
Best part of day 1 was the fantastic patience of our kids on a torturous 12 hour trip that should have been 8. Close second and maybe actually tied for first was getting to stop and meet up with my friend of 20 years, Kari. 20 years!!!!! 20 years pass so fast. We had an awesome visit and meal but we did have to cut it shorter than I would have liked based on the ticking time bombs that were our kids. The littlest girls were asleep in the van within minutes of getting back on the road.
And then again also tied for first was getting to Mima's however late to find out that Jenny was there with Zoe after all!!!! Great surprise!
So we all celebrated, unpacked and crashed for the evening exhausted. We did change clocks and set alarms for church in the morning. Mom and dad haven't settled into a church here yet and mom brought us to one they had tried once. Cool thing, it is pretty much named the same as our home church that we love. We went to Journey Christian Church. We totally loved it and I hope mom and dad do too. The kids went to Sunday School after praise and worship and the message delivered was focused on doing life in community. Read Proverbs 20 verse 13. Toward the end of service I had to run to the ladies room and found a wall hanging with one of my favorite, perhaps THE favorite, scriptures on it. Great morning at church.











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