On the Road

Well, as Kelsey told you yesterday I am on the road to Panama City Beach, Florida! I am so excited for this week. I can't believe we are already on Spring Break! I am now closer to finishing my freshman year at Iowa than I am to starting it! Crazy thought. Anyway, it has been quite an eventful trip as you all know, nothing ever goes perfectly... I got on the bus at about 6:35 so we were late, but that's ok! My phone was already dying because it is stupid and dies three times a day. I searched my bag frantically and realized I didn't have my phone charger! I am hoping it is in my big suitcase under the bus. Luckily my friends, Ellen has the same charger as me and came to my rescue! Thanks Ellen :)
Now, I will take a second to introduce you to my lovely seat mate, Jade- I do have more exciting things to tell you but I will rest your minds for a second!

We should have taken a picture last night when I looked better, but I didn't think about it, whoops! Oh well! She is in my Bible study in Burge and I am really excited to get to know her better through out the week, not that we don't know each other right now, because we do! 


Back to exciting things! (not that you aren't exciting, Jade, because you are) As many of you know sleeping on a bus is not very fun. Jade and I discovered this again last night. There was no room in the aisle for me to sleep, so we had to share a seat. It was quite pleasant! Well, we did ok and what could you expect on a crowded bus right? Anyway at about 7 this morning the bus pulled over to the side of the road, which is never a good thing! We had blown a tire! We had to wait for a truck service to come and fix it. We were back on the road by 8 or 8:15. The tire looked like someone had come and tore it apart!


Then we played speed dating. That was really fun. Erica and I read questions in the front while people moved every minute and a half. I think (and hope) they had fun! I got to use the microphone and wanted so badly to shout "THERE IS COLONIAL WOMEN ON THE WING! SHE IS DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL COLONIAL GARB! THERE IS SOMETHING THEY AREN'T TELLING US!" I did however refrain from doing so, into the microphone that is. I might have repeated a few times up front to people near me. PS is you don't know what that is from, it's probably a good thing!


We are watching Lord of the Rings now, but I am so not in the mood for that movie so I thought I would bore you all with my thoughts of our trip so far.


If you could pray for everyone in our group and who will be at Big Break just to be open to what God has in store for us and that God would open the hearts of everyone we will be sharing the Gospel with that would be awesome! God has some really cool things planned for all of this week and I am really excited to see what He has in store for me specifically! Also, Kelsey wasn't kidding when she asked you to pray that I wouldn't get burnt! That would not be a good thing! I hope I get a tan with out the burn (here's hoping!)


Anyway, thank you for spending time reading our blog! We really appreciate you guys taking time to read our crazy, scattered thoughts! We also appreciate comments :)


MM

Shopping and other fun things.

Sorry for the lack of blogg-age. I've been working, and then sleeping, working then sleeping all week. This new job is wiping me out! But every day I leave feeling a tiny bit more confident.  At some point every day, I found myself thinking, "I love this job!" Guess this is where I'm supposed to be! 

A week ago Mary and I promised to blog about our shopping trip to Williamsburg to the outlets. Well, mother nature caught word of our fun shopping trip and sent a snow storm right our way! What are the odds? Seriously, it's been like spring all winter long. So we made another plan. We went to Coral Ridge Mall! I love having an actual "mall" with good stores close by! (Sorry Ames, that thing you call a mall, isn't really a mall.) We started the day out by eating breakfast (ok, it was 2 pm.) at ihop because I had been craving pancakes all week! They did their job!

First bites!

I promised our waitress I would finish all of them. But I had to disappoint. I couldn't eat them all. 

     

After breakfast, we headed over to the mall. We hit up Old Navy pretty well. If you're looking for cute spring/summer clothes, that's the place to go! Super cute clothes!  Mary got some "supes cute" (she'll kill me for saying that :) silver Sperry's, and like all good sisters, I was extremely jealous. I guess I know how she feels now... she's always been jealous of me! HA! As for my shopping day, it was at Target. Buying bathroom cleaning supplies. Woo-Hoo! As we were leaving, and after the snow, we headed out to the car. Mary was climbing in passenger side, and got "Snooped" on. (Snowed and Pooped on) (yes, i made that word up.) I thought it was quite hilarious. And so we took another picture.

SNOOPED!

It's time for me to wrap this up. I was supposed to be in bed early tonight. Whoops! Mary is on spring break in Panama City Beach this week with Cru! Pray that she has a good time, grows in her time there, and doesn't get fried like a lobster! (Seriously, though.) Have fun, Mar! We all will be looking forward to a detailed post about your trip! Love you!

-KM-