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 :)


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