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Pictures :)

 Her dog Gem (in picture above). Enjoying rocking chairs at a gas stop along the way. (picture below.)

“Room anywhere for my pillow?”

 

                The first day of our trip started out with everyone gathering at Town Hall to be taxied down to the bus that will take us on our trip. I arrived there in body, but not in mind. After only about 4 hours of sleep, and only being awake for less than a half an hour, I was not awake yet. Everyone was saying good morning, or hi, or something (I can’t remember that clearly enough), or are you awake. Well I was still half asleep, and evidence of that was I didn’t hear someone talking to me until like the fourth or fifth time they said my name. We loaded up on the bus, shuffling down to find a good seat and someone to sit with. In my sleeping stage I chose a seat that I thought was just fine, until we realized that it couldn’t lean back, because of the seats facing the opposite way behind them. L So much for leaning back your seat to sleep! Leah, my “seat partner” for the day, and I took turns sitting next to the window so we could lean on it to sleep. Most of the day was spent sleeping for me, or reading a book.

 

                Every time we made a rest stop we were glad to be out and stretch our legs. Usually a group were tossing around a football until the last minute before getting on the bus. We have been in a total of four states today, leaving Pennsylvania to travel through Ohio and Kentucky, and are now in Tennessee. We arrived at Leah’s place, well actually the church near her house, around supper time. They had a big supper of delicious food, including lasagna, garlic bread, pecan pie, and some banana pudding which is Leah’s favorite and her mom made just for her. We all got to meet Leah’s parents and two of her sisters, which was neat. The Watkins put us up for the night, letting the guys sleep in the church, and splitting up the girls and the married couples between their house and the aunt and uncle’s stable house. I was in the group in her house, and we all spread out on the carpeted floor or air mattresses and went to sleep almost right away, since we were very tired.

 

                “Traveling in a cramped bus again. J”

                Our second day of the trip started out with a good breakfast put on by the Watkins, and then loading all up on the bus by 7:30. We had been concerned the night before, since something went wrong with the bus the evening before when they went to leave the church to take us to the houses. I think someone said it was something with the brakes, but do not quote me, since I do not know, and it would be better to ask the mechanics on the trip, since they know what it was! J Anyways, thankfully it was fixed in not too long of time, so they weren’t up all night with it.

 

                We took off and have traveled through Arkansas and Oklahoma and are now in a hotel in Texas. We had a devotional led by Mr. Brenner in the morning, after a half hour of quiet time for devotions. Around noon we had a long time at a gas stop to buy lunch/snacks and stretch our legs. We got on the road again, and after traveling for several hours arrived at the Starrett’s ranch for supper around 5:30. There we met up with two others who were joining us on the Mexico trip, as well as seeing several people that have been at the ranch before. We ate a good  meal and then got a quick tour of the ranch. I liked seeing the chandelier they had in their office building and their unique light posts with horses on them. I especially enjoyed seeing their big crew-cap Freightliner semi, and a cute little palomino colt that has the cutest little face ever! Looks aren’t everything though; his manners could still improve. (Found my long hair something desirable to nibble on.) 

 

                All too soon we had to leave for our next destination, a hotel in Texas where we will spend the night. The noise level went on an increase as everybody was ready for the ride to end for the day, and we were all very tired.

The Start

Hello Everybody! Well this is the start to a blog of our trip to Mexico! I hope to update it as often as I can so you can keep track of what we are doing, but of course we may not have internet in Mexico, so we will see how often I can get on.