May 4, 2009

Friday we spent the day at Fort Lauderdale Beach. It was really pretty but the waves were really big and strong all day so being in the water was very tiring just to stay on your feet. We got there about 11 and stayed till 4 then headed back home for dinner and time to relax with Bart.

Saturday was a lot of fun at the Seaquarium. They trained Flipper there and have a cool dolphin show as well as a killer whale show. The killer whale show was my favorite by far. Before the show even started we were able to get right down up against the tank. I could have reached out and touched the whale!!! I got some really awesome pictures and can’t wait to show everyone at home. We went out to dinner in Miami at a Nicaraguan steak place. It was so good. They bring out your steak on a plate with nothing else on it then bring you out rice and beans and plantains. It was really good we all like it a lot and then were able to go out on the dock and watch all the boats coming in for dinner. We walked around a bit got some pictures and even got some pictures of the Bongo’s owned by Gloria Estephan, Michael asked who she was, sigh I think I am getting old.

Sunday was not what we were expecting. We were under the mistaken impression that the Jones’s church was a small one. Boy were we wrong, it is huge. We were able to share with Bart’s Sunday school class about what we will be doing. They seemed really interested and asked tons of questions. After church they had invited some friends back to their house to meet us and see our presentation. The Blanco’s are a lot of fun. They were very interested and everyone asked so many questions. I hope that we have made some new friends and gained more supporters. I know it isn’t right to hope that everyone we meet with support us financially but we are leaving in like 3 weeks and are still about $1,300 a month short for our full support amount. I am trying to leave it all up to the Lord but my own worries get in the way sometimes.

Today is Monday and Anne and the boys went to a home school picnic we were invited to come but we really wanted to get a bit of rest before we left and take care of emails etc. I did some laundry today which was nice to start out the next part of our trip with clean clothes. I will be able to do laundry once again at the hotel on the way to VA to keep the dirty stuff to a minimum. We will be leaving at about 6 am tomorrow morning to get out the Fort Lauderdale/Miami area before rush hour starts. We plan on driving back to North Carolina and staying a couple of nights to get lots of rest and then head to VA where we will be till Sunday night. We were able to get out and do some more shopping today we are hoping that being in FL where it is always warm we will be able to find lots of clothes for all of us for Congo. We were able to get sandals for Art and Michael and I was able to find a new skirt.

I can’t wait to get to the Zoller’s I am not sure if we are staying there or with the Feeney’s again but I know that we will be relaxed and stress free while there. I miss them just like I would family. They really have become really close to us over the last year.