DAY ONE - The Journey from Duluth to Peoria

We left church at 7:00am. Trying to fit all the band equipment and the 10 boxes of tee shirts in the buss :], it was crazy, it was like the bread and the fish more space kept appearing. Then, we learned a new game on the bus called "we now drown your cows", sadly enough it was amusing. You count cows (any hooved animals) on your side of the road and so does the other side then if you see a body of water on your side of the road you say "I now drown your cows", then you start at zero again, the side that has the most number of cows at the next stop wins! When we got on the bus we were handed out, magic eyes, all theses little pictures are together and then seeing the big picture as we take this journey. We got to Peoria first ;]! Then we went to Old Chicago to eat dinner...... -Dayin ;



When we got to Old Chicago we were surprised to see some oddly dressed dancers on the roof of the restaurant!!! Although it was pretty goofy it was for a great cause, it was to buy Christmas gifts for a children's home...... The two crazy people who were on the roof weren't gonna come down until they raised $3000 for the charity. We got seated as a table of 35 (which is all the people on our bus) and ate some delicious pizza. Also all the proceeds from the pizzas that were bought that day were going to the charity. After dinner we went back to the hotel and had some fun free time while the adults had a meeting. We went to worship and had a great sing-a-long. I saw God today bringing all of these kids together helping to do "Gods work, With our hands" It was cool seeing just our group of four from our church growing bigger as we joined our other bus people and then all the rest of the kids from the Northeastern Minnesota Synod. Then later going to New Orleans with 36000 others. -Jordyn :)