A Magical Day

A few weeks ago (sorry I am late blogging about it) I spent the day at Disney for a "Night of Joy" promotion with some really awesome friends. At first we thought our tickets were just for one park (Hollywood Studios)...but then we found out that they were park hopper tickets! SCORE! We were all so excited and we immediately began mapping out our day and what we would hit at each park . We successfully went to all 4 Disney theme parks in Orlando and rode every major attraction at all of them. Well, with the exception of Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom only because it is closed until November for upgrades. This was my best Disney experience ever...no offense Mom and thanks for taking me so many times as a kiddo :)

Here are some highlights from the day:
1. It was 23 hours long.
2. We got special VIP treatment from Disney employees.
3. It was Sam's birthday
4. Our bus driver proposed to us.
5. We made a friend who spent nearly the entire day with us, thanks Chris.
6. Rode the boat, monorail, and buses...all modes of Disney Transportation.
7. Went to all 4 parks, for FREE!!!

Here we all are at Hollywood Studios...we are not tired yet!
On the bus from Hollywood Studios to Epcot, our bus driver proposed to all 4 of us! We got some bling...looks like Stephen has some competition now!
Cinderella's castle at the Magic Kingdom is so pretty at night and it changes colors!
I don't remember if this was before or after Splash Mountain at the Magic Kingdom, but it was one of the last pictures of the day...we are definitely tired at this point!

Weekend Recap:

Last weekend I was in Indiana with Stephen and his family. Stephen had a softball game on Friday night and I made it in time to go and cheer him on :) I knew he played almost every Friday night for a church league but it was special to get to see him play, and win (10-7)! We spent the 4th at his sister's house with the whole family. Unfortunately it rained steady almost all day, but that did not stop his niece from going outside and talking the boys into playing softball with her in the rain. The rain stopped long enough for us to shoot off some nice fireworks. It was cool being in a state where fireworks that explode in the sky aren't illegal. You could see fireworks going off over treetops everywhere!

After listening to everyone talk about how wonderful The Proposal was, I finally got to see it. It only took a little bit of convincing to get Stephen to see that rather than Transformers...and he even enjoyed it! The movie was totally funny from the beginning to the end. I now understand why some of my friends have seen it more than once. Another highlight would be winning our bowling game/tournament we always have. Well, I say I won by default since the bowling alley was closed when we went. No worries though, we will match up in August!


I did not take many pictures this weekend...shocker, I know. This picture was taken on the river walk in Peru :) My flight was delayed in Atlanta and I was stuck in the airport for 4 hours or so, that was no fun-but God is still good and it was an awesome weekend spent in Indiana! Only 27 days until Stephen flys to Florida and we drive to Gulf Shores...woohoo!

Houston Highlights

Here are some photo highlights of the A218 Houston Launch...a photo tour so to speak :) Enjoy! This is the last team photo that was taken by self timer (oh yeah!) in the Atlanta airport...waiting for our last flight home :) This is Chris, Katie, Derrick, Joey and Carolyn at the Hostel waiting for the women to some start arts and crafts with us. Team photo in San Leon, Texas doing hurricane relief work with Susan and Monte. This picture was taken by Pamela the volunteer coordinator at the Santa Maria Hostel in Houston...after a day of arts, crafts, and ministry :) We spent the day here doing projects and with the women. We even were able to eat lunch with them...what an experience! Joey was our awesome van driver and supplier of the Tums :) We all put those to good use! We are almost home...somewhere in the air between ATL and JAX with Houie (our team mascot)