Leaving for the Road

Since we left our house two weeks ago, we have been staying with Greg, Ann Marie, and Zach Russell (we don't have pics of them). We have felt so at home in their house. God is so good to us as He has given us such an awesome family of believers who love us so much.
Thank you Russell's.

The pictures below are our last day at the Russell's when some of our friends came by to say goodbye. It was hard to say goodbye, but we know we will see them again in six weeks. (Joe Clancy came by, too, but we didn't get a picture of him.)

Kelly and Kaulana lovin' on each other and Liam.

Stormy and Cassy Rosa

Kelly (with Liam, who was wild that day), Kaulana, Erin,
Kilaine (who is being shy), Me (Robin) and Dominick

We were leaving that day (last Saturday) to begin our journey visiting churches to raise support before going to Peru. After saying goodbye to our friends, we hit the road...

Here's a cool car we saw. It said "peaches and cream" on the trunk.

We stopped at gas station and goofed around for a little while. Here's a shirt we found that made us think of our friend, Tim Bartlett. He's really competitive. We were going to buy it for him, but now we're "poor missionaries," so we decided to take a picture of it for him, instead. Happy Birthday, Tim!

The kids had fun at the gas station, too. When there's no playground in sight, we can always count on the kids to get a little creative...

We made it to our first place, Calvary Chapel Palm Coast. We stayed the night, Saturday night, at Andy and Sherie Hitz's house, the pastor's house. We had a nice time talking with them. At about 10:00 that night, Andy decided to let Robin teach the next morning. What a blessing!

After the worship, I played along to our slideshow. I played a worship song that I learned on one of our short term trips to Peru called Solo Tu.

Then, Robin taught the message. It was really nice visiting the church. They made us feel very welcome. After the service we went out to lunch with about 20 of the people from the church. Thanks everybody.

After lunch on Sunday, we drove down to Merritt Island to stay the night with some friends of ours, Jerry and Karen Sheldon. They moved away from our church a couple of years ago. They made us feel really welcome years ago (about 8) at Calvary Boynton, when we were just starting to date each other. It's awesome to see them again. It's as if no time has passed at all.

This is what we saw when we woke up in the morning (that's Jerry). It's a sight that could get anyone up out of bed! You guys are awesome!

Later today, we are heading off to Orlando to continue our journey...