Just like PL, and for what reason I do not know, I was wide awake at 4:30AM. I packed up my sleep stuff and got cleaned up. The day officially started at 6AM when everyone woke up. The bus was already there, so while the kids were grabbing some breakfast I started to bring stuff out to the bus and met Gary our driver. Believe it or not we were actually on the road at 7AM. We drove straight thru to Connecticut before our first stop around 10AM which was just at the welcome center for a quick pit stop. Surprisingly when we got back in the bus my Aunt Marilyn called me to let me know she couldn’t wait to see me and is very excited. On the first leg of the trip I was listening to my Jimmy Buffett music and reading A Salty Piece of Land by guess who…Jimmy Buffett. Then we started to watch Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix which I just finished reading to Ryan so it was neat to watch the movie and compare it to the book.
We stopped in Newburg New York for lunch at…ahem…McDonald’s. If you know me you will understand the brief pause to collect my thoughts. After we ate, around 1PM we hit the road again and I finished watching the movie and then I joined in the fun with the kids. I helped do a number of Mad Libs and I started a group singing PL songs. After that I continued listening to music until a brief stop for a pit stop.
We rolled into the Mechanicsburg’s UCC around 6:15PM and were met with the extravagant welcome from John the pastor and we set up in the sanctuary. It is really nice that this congregation has opened up their church to the Maine delegates as well as delegates from Albany NY. Anyways, we had Subway for dinner and more fun and fellowship. We have word that there is a group from this congregation who has volunteered to come in at 4:30 in the morning to cook us breakfast such a welcoming church! At 10PM the lights went and for the first time in my life I slept on a pew.
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