Hot Springs, ARKANSAS

June 20 – 23, 2010

Sunday, we loaded in the car right after breakfast and prepared for a long day of traveling – 13 hours – to Hot Spring. Arkansas. On our way through, we had ice cream with a friend I knew from youth group when I lived in Florida. We hadn’t seen each other in 17 years.

After taking numerous back roads, not seeing much life, and feeling like we were in the middle of nowhere, we arrived at 10:30pm at the cute little cabin (the Lone Cedar Cabin) we had rented. We had intentions of staying up to greet our team mates who we were meeting there…but we were exhausted and they were lost…..(they didn’t come in till 2am)….so we just greeted them the following morning.
The Floyds work in the same town as we do in Paraguay (they have been there 12 years!). They just arrived on home assignment last week and will be in the US an entire year. If not for this time together we wouldn’t have seen each other for 2 years. We had a wonderful time catching up on the past year of ministry, planning for the coming year while we are there and praying. The kids were delighted to see the Floyd boys again. They loved swimming, skipping rocks, collecting tad poles, and playing chess and other games back at the cabin. The canoe (Tyler called it a Kazoo) was the biggest hit. In the evening the boys tried to fishing in the stocked fish tank, but unfortunately had no luck. Ginny, Jean and I collected blackberries one evening.

Tyler: I can’t get that cup because there’s a daddy long-legs on it.
Jeff: Are you afraid it will get on you and bit you?
Tyler: No. I’m afraid it will get on me and it will tickle.

Wednesday we said our good-byes and we headed to Belton. Our original plan was to head to Houston in order to ship our car to Paraguay, but during our West Coast trip our air conditioner went out (it was VERY hot inside our car driving through certain states!) and so it will have to spend a few days in the shop in Texas getting that repaired.