six weeks on the road

On June 10Th we left Haiti knowing that we would have a full summer logging a lot of miles.
As of today we have put on 4639 miles on our car.
We have been to....
- seventeen states
- five state parks
- played on a jet ski on the lake
- grilled great food with old friends
- hooked up with people we haven't seen in years
- got high lights put in my hair so I wasn't such a "natural" blonde
- visited two national forests
- one national monument
- had a great new family picture taken
- had several arguments with Lord about a boat load of stuff both good and bad
- played one indoor theme park in the biggest mall ever
- attended three ministry benefits
- one wedding
- three movies, one good, one OK and one not so good
- learned a few things about myself
- gotten lost with the GPS way too many times
(Note: I was thinking the whole point of this little black box was to get you from point A to point B with out getting lost.
It never occurred to us that you can put in a location, follow the directions, drive for an hour only to arrive finding that the sushi place everyone is craving does not exist anymore.)
- learned to live out of a suitcase for six weeks and counting
- went swimming a dozen or more times
- questioned the amount of ice cream my children can consume on any given day
- swam at one indoor water park
- compared everything imaginable with living in Haiti vs the States
- walked around a few grocery stores freaking out about all the food
- watched more episodes of Sponge Bob than I ever care to see in my whole life time
- cheered at one baseball game
- unpacked two storage units in 104 degree Florida heat
- packed and unpacked a twenty-four foot truck

There have been many spiritual lesson learned.
Some about the journey, some about the mountain tops, the valleys and the technology of a GPS.
I have had a few good arguments with the Lord about my will vs His.
I haven't won any of them but he is always a gentleman and lets me vent a good bit about how things that I had planned don't seem to be working out how I think they should.
I seem to have forgotten He is God and has a plan.

They say it all about the journey......all and all it's been a good one.