INSOMNIAC Recap

We had a great trip! An amazing time was had by all (the pictures tell the story).

Our next post will be last week of June for UMARMY.

Sunday Morning Update

Happy Father's Day! We are headed home to Lufkin. FUMC Arlington was an amazing host. I sometimes forget what a power ministry we can have when we simply open our doors.
I'm cerain you will hear some great stories when you get your child back after church this morning. If you kiddo says anything about a restraunt that specializes in chicken wings and caters to men by exploiting their waitresses attire, I can explain, really.
See you after church!

Saturday night update

After Kung Fu Panda, a very funny film. We went to have dinner at the Magic Time Machine. Our waiter was Robin Hood. We had many visits from the Joker and other asorted characters. Always an amazing experience...always an exercise in excess.
We are back and in for the night. Wii and sardines (the game are in the cards).
We'll be up and out by 7 am and home before noon tomorrow.

Saturday Afternoon Update

We woke late this morning, had breakfask and headed to Celebration Station.
We arrived and as we started our our second ride on the go-karts the rain began. Fortunately, video games, lunch and lazer tag held us over until the karts were running again.
It's now a gorgeous day.
We are currently sitting in an IMAX theater watching Kung Fu Panda on the big screen.
We will finish here and head to dinner.

Friday recap

12:15pm left church
12:18 arrived at McDonalds
12:30 on the road
2:30 pit stop at Love's...one child tries to use all their money on a slinky, etcha-sketch and yoyo combo pack, another learns that a bathroom vending machines come in many flavors including one that dispenses colgne for 25 cents. Save that quarter.
4:00 pm pit stop no known stupidity
5:00 arrive at destination
6:00 dinner at Chipotle's
7:00 planetarium
9:00 back at base camp
10:00 lights out (hopefully)

trip video

I tried to share a video from the second show at the planetarium.
The first was a show called "Astronaut" and detailed the demands placed on astronauts. This was followed by a woman who called herself a "physicist (sort of)". She seemed to be making most of her facts up, as she often changed answers and said things like; I want to say and I'm guessing.
The final show was the rock n' roll hall of fame. Literal visual overload set to tunes by The Who, Doors, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, Midnight Oil and U2. Very cool. We all left feeling a little dizzy or car sick. If I get the video to load, you'll see the wonder that was Led Zepplin.

We're headed to DFW!

We're packed and rockin' along in the "bread box" headed to DFW for the weekend.



We'll update the blog as we move from location to location. If we can grab ourselves a wireless internet signal we'll update photos to our photobucket account.

INSOMNIAC

INSOMNIAC leaves at noon.
A weekend of fun and fellowship for our Middle Schoolers.
This year we moved the trip from the Memorial Day Weekend.
We speculated that placing the trip at the end of VBS would be an incenotve to participate in VBS and be a nice reward.
Next year we will make sure we take Father's Day in account...

It's traditionl that students don't find out what they are doing until we are actually doing it.
Parents will get a full itenerary just before we pull out.

The blog will be updated nightly!