Not Boring!! . . . # 1

First of all the TLC team had to get to the airport. We dropped in to Pastor Ramon's for a singspiration type service on Monday evening. After service Nadia, the always gracious hostess offered us tea. Then there were pictures to get and good-bye's to be said.

Because some team members wanted some more chocolate candy bars, we tried to go to a 24-hr Cilpo (grocery store) at midnight and found it closed. Since we were in a small parking lot and had no trailer lights, backing the trailer around was a challenge. Especially when someone drove up behind us to block our way! So we went forward to find another place to turn around. This time a panel truck came up behind us to unload at the grocery store dock. We went forward again and caught our bumper in a rut and tore it off the front of the van! . . . ah-h missionary adventure!!! We finally found a way back onto a normal road and stopped at the next store, bought the chocolate candy bars.

(No, we didn't get pictures of the van without a bumper or the bumper tied on top of the luggage in the trailer or the policeman who stopped us, asking, "Where is your bumper and tag plate?" We were too tired to think about pictures.)

Then it was supper time. We headed to a McDonald's. We arrived five minutes too late to go inside. The workers shooed us out of the drive thru with our trailer. The only place to park was behind other vehicles. We had to move to give them room to get out twice. In the middle of one move our order was delivered.

About 1:30 am we got to the airport, showed the team where the scales were to weigh their suitcases. After we made sure they had our phone number in the event of problems we left them on their own.

Too tired to drive safely farther, we napped in the pay parking lot for a little while then drove on to Osikova. At about 9 we started moving. We stopped at a small bazaar and got the tools needed to re-attach our bumper (so every policeman wouldn't stop us) and fix the trailer lights and headed home. We arrived home to a hot meal that Katrina kindly prepared for us.



Since then we've been trying to get things wrapped up from youth camp and started for VBS. It just barely, barely rained during youth camp. When the tents were finally being packed up after the campers had gone, the rain began in earnest. So the tents were quickly packed up to be hauled home. Now each one had to be set up, dried out and cleaned up for next year. When the campers had been cold, we brought out all our spare quilts. So now we had laundry for the week of camping plus the quilts.

Another special blessing was that Monday was a holiday so city water was on. Seth and Faith did around 10 loads of laundry on Monday.