Entries this day: AM Drive_2_South_Padre

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10:58 am July 2001

I slept for about 1.25 hours, down at the end of the road.

Ellen seems to have recovered nicely; she just mentioned that she is going to win the next game of silent football that she plays.

Closing circle/worship was hot as the sun, but nice. We wrote/read blessings from the week.

Hugs to peeps as they are leaving at random moments like photons leaving an excited atom.

Heidi just told me that she has been inspired by me to be a youth advisor. What an incredible blessing.

(note: a few of you have said that, and it's an incredible blessing each tiime. I'm grateful to be here for you.)

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Bryn walked up to me. She was crying.

"Rob, may I have a hug?"

"Of course, my angel," and I put down = dropped the stuff in my hands and hugged her so tightly for minutes as she cried.

"I've just been losing so many friends this month," referring to her Aussie mates and YRUU homies.

I feel blessed by her emotions.

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Hugs and tears from Elizabeth, who believes this is her last YRUU experience.

I told her to write me; I will write back. (I'll write back to any of you who write me.)

11:23 am

Chilled until about 12:30 while we determined where to meet Sean & Joey's dad, and where to find Danny's mom.

Sleep time for me.

Drive 2 South Padre

3:50 pm 27 July 2001

I have basically just woken up; I fell asleep remembering the clear tones of that dance which Noah and AJ did while hanging from the rafters. You know the one.

Good stuff.

Thank you all so much for a great SWUUSI!

Wende and I are in West, Texas (note the comma between the city name and state name) getting kolaches for the family reunion. Yes, it's in South Padre Island. Check it out on a map.

7:07 pm

We're munching at a pretty nice Taco Bell in Lockhart, Texas. Seating for about 60 people. Bathrooms clean and big.

9:34 pm

I really love my handspring visor and keyboard!!!

I also really enjoy haing rechargable bateries for it. These rechargeable batteries that I used fr all of SWUUSI lasted... for all of SWUUSI! The visor just now said the bateries are low. So I popped in the pair I ad carried in my pocket the entire week just in case hey went dead during SWUUSI. Which they didn't.

I have been reading through the Rally Book Four, which I essentially had never previously read. I'm keeping track of entries in it so I can creae an index, like I did for the first rally book. It really isn't too difficult to create an index; maye someone will for books 2 and 3. Book four is officially full (I'm pretty sure).

That means we will begin Rally Book Five. Fucking Five Rally Books!! So amazing, and such a superbly awesome history of YRUU in SWD. I am so honored that YRUU embraced mky idea. Started the first one by copying pages out of my diary that peeps had signed at either Houston, LDC, OKC, 1996 (I think!!)

Now we have four full books and Sean Bibby will be purchasing number five. This is the first one that I have no purchased, which further prooves that the youth have taken ownership of this history-recording project (the first proof is that Sean has been maintaining all four volumes for the entire duration of Book Four's creation, proved because I hadn't previously read any of it.)

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9:47 pm

Wende and I have driven 448.9 miles today; we are a few hours from South Padre. Tomorrow we are going to Mexico, which is especially cool since, believe it or not, I have never been to Mexico.

And on Sunday we are going parasailing!!!

Wende's mom was all, 'and think about parasailig on Sunday,'

And I'm like what's to think about? Parasailing = of course I'm going!!!

1:06am

Wende writes:

I am really grumpy right now because I'm so tired. So tired. Rob fell asleep around Beeville which was about 3.5 or 4 hours ago and i've been driving. I've been trying to do most of the driving since he only got 1 hour of sleep last night which makes my 5 seem luxurious, but I was actually getting worried about our safety when I finally woke him up. We were able to get cash at this gas station and I needed to go to the bathroom. I tried the door and it wouldn't open. I waited around with Rob for a while and even asked the attendant if the door should open. He said that if it was locked, someone was in there. So finally I asked Rob to stand outside the men's door while I went in there. It was stinky and had lots of crude stuff on the walls and doors. When I came out, the attendant was at the women's restroom and the door opened right up. Great. About 2 hours ago, I stopped for candy and gas and Rob barely woke up. He's been snoring. Yes, that's right, snoring. The good news is that we're almost there. I so want to be sleeping. Oh, and i have a rash on the back of my neck that itches. Grrrrrrrrr.

2:08 am

We have just arrived. Wende is in a pissy pissy pissy grumpy mood because she is so tired and afraid the truck will be towed becuse of where we have to park.

I thnk it will be okay. She's also mad that I'm typing. bye.

2:33 am

We're in our room. Twin beds. Wende is still getting ready for bed; I'm going to sleep now.