April Adventures

Ever since I started traveling internationally, about every six months I start to get the itch. It's time to get on a plane, leave the country and go on vacation. In April, I get to do all three of those things, but on three separate trips. It's less exciting than it sounds but it's been a busy month! The foreign country was Mexico, the plane trip was to LA on business, and the vacation is a weekend at Disneyland. All of this is mixed in with the usual full-time job, part-time grad school, and volunteering with the youth group. Oh yeah, and I have a husband that I like to talk to every once in a while, haha. Needless to say, things have been really busy, and blogging is a last priority! Thankfully Danny keeps up with his movie blog or our page might have expired.

Back to the chaos that has been April. It started on Easter Sunday when we left Oakland with 40 teenagers to drive to Mexico for a week-long spring break mission trip. Driving a 15 passenger van full of teens through the dirt roads of Mexico is stressful, to say the least. Despite the fact that I maxed out all my vacation time at the new job, this was not a vacation. Most of the trip was great - we had a good group of kids, did some great construction and ministry at Rancho de sus Ninos orphanage and had a lot of fun. Then Thursday hit. I won't go into details, but I'll summarize by saying we had some discipline issues that escalated so much that by the end of the night the adults decided to bring them home a day early. Instead of making the trip home in two fun days, we did it in one rough day. After a major delay at the border (another long story) we left the Mexican border at 5 pm and had to drive all the way to Oakland through San Diego and LA traffic. We rolled into Oakland at 3 am and I spent the next two days in a fog that felt like jet lag. I have to take a minute to brag about Danny and what a great job he did on this trip. I was impressed to work with him and so proud to be his wife! It's incredibly difficult to lead a trip like this Mexico mission trip, but even more difficult when there are discipline problems, and he handled everything with such integrity. His theme for the week was "speak the truth in love" and he had to do a lot of that!

Here's a picture of me helping some girls decorate hair clips.


After Mexico I had a day and a half to rest and do laundry, and then got on a plane at 5 am to fly to Pasadena and visit the Fuller main campus for two days of meetings. I had a blast being at Fuller as a staff member and meeting all my co-workers from around the country. I flew home Tuesday night just in time to get to my 7-10 pm class. By Wednesday, my brain was fried!

On Friday Danny and I are driving to LA to play at Disneyland for two days - just the two of us! This will be my third trip to (or through) LA in three weeks, but I think this one will be the most fun! This will be our first getaway alone since our honeymoon, so we're excited to get out of town for some much needed R&R. We're not taking any teenagers, and I'm not taking any homework!

Talk to you again - sooner than two months this time, I promise!