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Well I told you we would get you some stories that have not made it to the BLOG from this trip… and I am sitting here watching the Bills lose to Dallas, so I thought… what better time than that?? 🙂 Let’s see… where to begin….
| Stories From Clearwater… |
| We told you the amazing story of Ian’s Watershoe (see Oct 29-30, 2003) and the funny story of our first night at the time share resort… but, there was more! Tuesday of that week was Jen’s Birthday, so we had a full day of celebrating Jen! It was fun. We went to a bunch of thrift stores (one of Jen’s favorite things to do!) And we went to Skyline Chili!!! Another favorite! It was a great day.
We also got to go to Skyline another time that week with some friends from Cincinnati Bible College (well, one of them is). That was awesome. AND, we got to have a free lunch from someone who was trying to sell us a time share! 🙂 When they couldn’t sell us one, they cut us a check for $125.00!!!! That was a pretty awesome blessing!!! But probably the most fun thing that week… feeding the alligators!!!! 🙂 There was a mini-golf place right next to our time share that had baby alligators you could feed! How fun!!! The boys loved it! |
| Stories From Ft. Myers… |
 When we first got to Ft. Myers, it was Halloween night, and we dressed the boys up and got to do the Trunks of Treats event that a church was hosting. We were singing later that night at this church. There were only 5 trunks… 🙂 So, we headed out and hit a couple houses in the neighborhood. Our boys were just tooooo cute for 5 trunks. So we had fun, and then a great concert that night.
We also got to spend the weekend with some friends of ours – they knew Jen when she was born! That was cool to spend the weekend with them, and sang at their church on Sunday morning. That saturday we also played at a coffee house that sold tickets for people to see us!! And people bought them!!!! 🙂 We got 6-of-7 dollars from each ticket, so that was nice. A good night there, too. Also hooked up with the Race family… friends of ours from our church in Victor.. moved down to Cape Coral, FL 3 years ago or so, and we’ve gotten to visit them each year we come down. That was a nice evening. We finished the weekend with a meal at Skyline!!! Whooohooooo!!!! 🙂 |
| Stories From Tampa/Clearwater (the second time)… |
| We returned to Tampa on Monday Nov 3rd and got to stay with some friends from the Univ of South FL (Where we sang on Tuesday night of that week). We went swimming there!!! The water was kinda cold, but it was fun for me and the boys to get to swim in November! 🙂 Tuesday night’s concert was very cool, too. It was fun to see a lot of familar faces, and it was fun to worship with them.
That Wednesday night we did a worship concert for the youth at First Christian Church in Clearwater – on Total Surrender – using the Rich Young Ruler story (see below for thoughts on that…) Was a good night. Got to spend a little more time with our friends there, too! |
| Stories From Orlando… |
| Have you ever driven around Orlando??? We drive everywhere, but we have never gotten lost as many times as this past weekend?!?!?! It was crazy.
A fun and interesting reunion this weekend was seeing my Grandad’s (my Mom’s Dad) widow (not my Grandma, his second wife). I have some good memories from that house! Was funny to be there again like 16 years later! Wow! She took us out to dinner, and then came to our concert last night. Was great to see her again. The concert was a lot of fun last night… we ended up doing a shortened set because one of the groups opening for us got a bit overzealous… 🙂 They went about an hour instead of 15 minutes… 🙂 Oh well. We didn’t actually start till 9:30, so we cut it short so everyone could go home! But everyone who stayed was very happy to be there. Very cool. Nice night. Also got to hang out with some friends with a NY connection. They also helped us with our accomodations for the weekend. That was so cool! We actually stayed in our own place for MOST of this tour!! That was so crazy! 🙂 |
So… that’s some catchin’ up. Stay tuned for more…