Saturday morning we picked up our 2 vans. I was worried that
I wouldn’t be able to reach the pedals, but I could! After deciding tat we had to remove the back
seats to fit our luggage, we packed up and were on the road around 10:00 AM.
The middle schoolers and high schoolers are traveling in
separate cans. Jeff and I are with the middle schoolers. Almost right away,
this group started playing games together. They played car games,(the alphabet
game, pictionary telephone and mafia) the entire way!! Jeff and I thought we
were going to have to be the instigators in getting the kids to talk with each
other and interact, but we didn’t have to.
The high school van was a little quieter we hear, with
reading, sleeping and small conversations…
Thanks to someone having to stop for a bathroom break, we
stopped at a rest area that was right along Lake Michigan. Dan and I couldn’t
resist getting our feet wet, so we all stopped for about ½ hour, walking
through the water and getting refreshed. The water felt really good.
We made it to Marquette just before 7 PM and were
welcomed by a member of the First Presbyterian Church with plates of homemade
cookies! After being shown to our sleeping rooms, we went to a park on Lake
Superior to swim. We were told the water was 41degrees, but that didn’t stop 16
people from going swimming! (3 of us were out getting pizza for the rest of the
group.) We have a very brave and courageous group!
After staying in Marquette for the night, we left bright and
early to head towards Duluth. We plan on eating lunch together, then the high
schoolers will head towards Red Lake and the middle schoolers will stay in
Duluth to start our week of mission!
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