Survived Tulsa!

Well, I survived my chaperoning trip to Tulsa to the "Acquire the Fire" Christian youth conference! I think we had a total of 42 people (9 adults and 33 kids). It was an awesome weekend!! Above is a picture of the group that went.

Also, above is the HUGE church that we attended worship service at on Sunday morning. It is Asbury United Methodist Church. This is the "big" chapel. There was a smaller chapel that connects off the left (as you look at the picture) side of the big chapel. They had 71 people in their choir, plus an orchestra, plus a handbell choir. They have 12 full-time pastors. Like I said, it was HUGE!!

We left Friday morning around 10am and got to Tulsa around 3:30 ish. Got checked into the hotel and then left to go get dinner. Our conference started at 7pm and we didn't get done until 9:30 ish. Didn't get back to the hotel until around 10:30pm. It was midnight when the girls in my room finally got through showers and we all went to bed (and giggled for a half hour or so after that). We got up at 6:45 am on Saturday and got to the conference at around 8:15 am. It lasted until 9:30 pm with an hour and a half break for both lunch and dinner. We got back to the hotel Saturday night around 10 pm. We ordered pizza. Slowly but surely between 12 midnight and 1 am the girls in my room took showers and crawled into bed. No giggling Saturday night. I finally shut off the light at 1 am and went to bed myself. We were all up by 8:20am Sunday and got ready to go to church services. Left Tulsa around 1:30 pm and got in around 8 pm Sunday evening.

Needless to say, Sarah and I got home, unpacked and were into bed by 9:15 pm. I had to get up at 6 am Monday to go to work. However, my lazy bones daughter didn't have school on Monday and slept until I called her at NOON on Monday. Must be nice!! Anyway, we had a good time but I was definitely wore out by the time we got home.

It was really neat - while we took our lunch break on Saturday, my niece, Maria, and her little boy, Amari, came to visit us while we tailgated in the parking lot. I hadn't seen Maria in a long time and had never met Amari in person. We had a nice, SHORT visit.