Day: 4-5

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Day 4: We started our day in Sheradon, WY with a good shower at the local YMCA. At this particular location, in both men and women's showers, we had community showers. If you get a chance to talk to a girl that went on the trip, ask about "Skittles" and you will get the full scoop on the shower situation that day. When we finally got on the road, we started our struggle toward Yellowstone Nt'l park. We were coming down a mountain, Emily W.'s ear started bleeding so we passed her to the UGBC van so they could take her to a hospital to get her checked out. She made it there and is now in fine traveling conditions. We made it to a little town in the middle of nowhere to get lunch and gas. We couldn't fill all the vans up at the same time so we had to set up a queue. We moved Swammy's van out of the way and continued filling up the others. When we were ready to leave and loaded in, Swammy's van wouldn't start. Something about a belt and compressor- No idea. It was absolutely amazing that we broke down in the parking lot of a repair shop. Whatever the problem was, it shut us down for about 3 hours. We had to find some way to pass the time so about 8 or 10 of us played a card game that Natalie and Lindsey made up that is somewhat of a concoction of 2 other games that we play every now and then. Three hours later, we were back on the road again. We stopped a few times to get some buffalo pictures then made it to the Old Faithful blasting. When we got into the parking lot for Old Faithful, we were greeted by a hippy that started reciting some poem about what, I don't know. I'm not sure what it was actually about, but it did leave a few of us breathless. After Old Faithful performed on time, surprisingly, we made our way to the church to spend the night in Gardner, MT. We had a few house guests there that were also using the church as a sleep stop as the were passing through.

Day 5: We awoke and after everyone was showered (Word on the street is the showers this morning were freezing, but I took my shower at night with hot water that scalded me a little bit) and packed, we headed out for a very uneventful day. Along the way, we got lost, separated and lost some more. There was a lot of talk a long the way of wind blowing across the road making it hard for the drivers. We got to the hotel outside of Orting around 9:30 and it was a blessing. Felt so good to know there wouldn't be any more strenuous driving (for 5 days). Since Hauser splurged and got us hotel rooms and it was a breath of fresh air to be back in civilization, we came into the room and turned everything on to get our money's worth. You can tell this wasn't a very eventful day when the most exciting things happening were getting lost.

The first half of our driving is over and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I feel like primary eight of us on our van out here have really gotten to bond and grown closer. The end of the trip hit at just the right time before people really started snapping. I'm glad it's over and only have four more days of driving to look forward too.

On the the horizon, we have door to door, bible school and basketball camp. Pray for us as we start with our evangelical mission in Orting, WA. I'm hoping to see a lot of lives change during the next few days and hope that we get good chances to be witnesses.

Thanks for reading and check back soon since I'll be coming back to the hotel (where the women are staying the entire time here) and having them clean out my underpants or whatnot and getting some blog updates during the wash.

Love,
Rob