MR-08…Sojourn Begins
Sorry for the delayed post. We haven’t had good internet access since we left. All that has changed now that we have arrived in LOS ANGELES!!!! Here’s a partial recap. Again, feel free to leave comments!!!
The madness has finally begun. We departed Sunday morning headed…some direction…for the first leg of our journey out of the Petroplex. After a few hundred miles and a lot of construction delays, we arrived at our dinner stop…AMAZING JAKE’S in Chandler, AZ. This place was unreal. Seriously…it’s rumored that the FDA has cited Amazing Jake’s as an establishment for unruly use of anabolic steroids! Does it get any better than pizza (and salad if you’re so inclined), bumper cars, lazer tag, a climbing wall, video games and go carts all under one roof!?!??!! I would suggest that it does not!
After dinner, we took a short drive over to Scottsdale, AZ to Mountain View Presbyterian Church to spend the night. We gathered in their theater for our evening meeting (which really ended up being a NIGHT meeting) at 10:15 PM…Pacific Standard Time! Needless to say, we were all worn out from the drive, but we had a great time anyway!
The night held a few surprises for us that we didn’t anticipate. We shut the lights off at 11:30 PM (or 1:30 if you asked our bodies). We were more than ready for a short night of sleep after being informed that we would have our only yearly morning the next day—a 6:00 AM wake-up call. No sooner had we all gotten comfy and started to quiet down…it started. An occasional beep…about every 5 seconds. The beeps got closer and closer together. There was some concern among the not-yet-sleepings that trouble was only a few beeps away…and boy, was it! All chaos ensued when an ear-piercing, face-melting security alarm sprang to life…when a vengeful fury! Both rooms were in a frenzy trying to get the thing shut off. After about 5 minutes of mayhem, we found the code and shut the thing off. Everyone took a few minutes to wipe the blood from their ears and hit the pillows again for some much-needed rest.
However, the hits kept coming for the guys’ room. Allegedly, Todd set his alarm for 6 AM and curled up to sleep on yet another not-his-bed and never noticed that his phone had not changed time zones…which meant, you guessed it…his alarm when off at “6:00 AM”. Not realizing his catastrophic mistake, he rose from his slumber and flipped the lights on to start waking everyone up…at “6:00 AM”. Noticing that nobody was even stirring at what should be 8:00 AM by our body clocks, he started to wonder… hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. He went back over to his bag and pulled out his watch that HAD been changed and realized that he had just turned the lights on over 37 sleepy heads at 4:00 AM!!! Thankfully, there was not a revolt or lynching involved. We went back to sleep and got back up 2 hours later and got ready to roll.
At this writing, we’re heading down I-8 toward Yuma, AZ. Let the guessing commence. Thanks for all your prayers. Feel free to leave comments for your kids here…we’ll pass them along. Blessings to you!
Postcards from the Edge 