Day 5: Coming Home!
We slept in a bit - lights on at 6:30. It took us some time to clean up, but we vacuumed the sanctuary and cleaned up after ourselves, set the chairs up (according to the diagram on the pulpit), got a group shot in front of the fallen steeple and got out of there before 8am. Each car decided where to eat on the way in. We did get a group t-shirt together to hang on their wall of t-shirts of previous groups.
Ok, so we got to the airport a little bit early. Or so everybody tells me. I think we got there at just the right time. We did have some time to chat in the airport and hang out, and get breakfast and read the paper. But we made it on time. Ken's group hit downtown very briefly and walked down Bourbon Street, saw the Mississippi River and statue of Andrew Jackson.
Our flight departed a tad bit early and we are on our way home. Yolanda Brittle and Todd Kennedy (and a bunch of family members) are all lined up to give some of the team rides home. I think we are all looking forward to seeing our families and sleeping in our own beds. Not that the accommodations were bad, we were very well taken care of.
Lisa Malone and Barry got a report from home that the church service opened with the video that we Fedex'd on Thursday. From what they heard, the video was very well received and the service went very well (without Barry). We would have loved to be there (also would have loved the chance to be at Lakeshore Baptist Church), but the timing just didn't work out on either end.
Sadly, we didn't get to see Pastor Don (the leader of Lakeshore) or Greg London (their volunteer coordinator, himself a volunteer from Georgia). They were out of town the entire time that we were there, but we will have to catch them the next time.
Parting Thoughts:
Traveling in large groups is way more fun than traveling alone or just with the family. Its great to be surrounded by people you know and like. Flying is a lot more like hanging-out rather than just spending a couple of hours in a very confined space alone in the midst of people.
Dulles, just in the distance. It won't be long now.
Ok, so we got to the airport a little bit early. Or so everybody tells me. I think we got there at just the right time. We did have some time to chat in the airport and hang out, and get breakfast and read the paper. But we made it on time. Ken's group hit downtown very briefly and walked down Bourbon Street, saw the Mississippi River and statue of Andrew Jackson.
Our flight departed a tad bit early and we are on our way home. Yolanda Brittle and Todd Kennedy (and a bunch of family members) are all lined up to give some of the team rides home. I think we are all looking forward to seeing our families and sleeping in our own beds. Not that the accommodations were bad, we were very well taken care of.
Lisa Malone and Barry got a report from home that the church service opened with the video that we Fedex'd on Thursday. From what they heard, the video was very well received and the service went very well (without Barry). We would have loved to be there (also would have loved the chance to be at Lakeshore Baptist Church), but the timing just didn't work out on either end.
Sadly, we didn't get to see Pastor Don (the leader of Lakeshore) or Greg London (their volunteer coordinator, himself a volunteer from Georgia). They were out of town the entire time that we were there, but we will have to catch them the next time.
Parting Thoughts:
Traveling in large groups is way more fun than traveling alone or just with the family. Its great to be surrounded by people you know and like. Flying is a lot more like hanging-out rather than just spending a couple of hours in a very confined space alone in the midst of people.
Dulles, just in the distance. It won't be long now.
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