Half-way Home

How many of you have been wished
Happy Birthday at 5:30 A.M.?

Your mission team was up before 5:00 A.M. this morning, packed, and on the road at 5:50 A.M. for the trip home. Of course it wasn't all our idea. The Oklahoma crew got up at 4:00 A.M and once the lights came on it was hard to get any sleep. We had some good old fashioned thunderstorms during the night that kept many of us from getting as much sleep as we wanted. Oh well, aside from the drivers of the two trucks, several team members caught up on their sleep by napping while we drove east and then north.

Bringing Pecans home seems to have
become a team tradition.

Most of the day was an un-eventful drive talking, reading, doing crossword puzzles, etc. while the country zipped by at 70 MPH. We did stop at Priester Pecans, south of Montgomery, Alabama to "sample' some pecans and bring a few home.

There's nothing better than a surprise
birthday cake.

Today was Pastor Bob's birthday. The mission team had carefully planned several events for him. It began with balloons in his truck and a banner presentation at 5:30 A.M.  We then spent the day riding in the trucks. Once we got to Bowling Green, Kentucky, we checked into our motel and then headed off to the local Olive
Gardens for dinner, another team tradition. The team surprised Bob with birthday cards we'd lugged from Farmington to Slidell and back to Bowling Green for his birthday. The restaurant was kind enough to provide Bob with a complimentary birthday cake.
Tomorrow will be another early departure. It looks like we'll have good weather for our trip back to Farmington.