Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a great time worshipping with the people of First Baptist Elk Grove and it was a nice change for Jon to do only 1 song in 2 of their services so we had lots of time to spend as a family together.  For the 9am service we went to the 12-24 month nursery and the 11:15am service I took the kids to the 3 year old Sunday school.  When we visit mega churches our kids always get double or triple dose of Sunday schools which they like.  Following the service Joel and his wife Jenn had invited us over for a turkey dinner – they are also fellow Canadians now living in Sacramento where Joel is the worship pastor.  They have 3 beautiful girls and our kids got along so well with them that they only appeared when it was time to eat the turkey and then the pumpkin pie!  After a wonderful and filling turkey dinner we bid farwell to our friends and hit the road once again – this time to the ocean.

My hope was to drive to Santa Barbara which GPS had a drive time of 6.5 hours but I think the tryptophan set in and we decided to head to Pismo which was about 5 hours instead.  I drove for about an hour and a half and was quite proud of myself since I have not actually driven the motorhome for over a year now – Jon enjoyed the sleep but when the kids woke up he wanted to trade!  We stopped at In-and-Out burger for take out and bath time for the kids (who had been sleeping from 4-7pm straight) and then headed off the I-5 into what would be the greatest driving adventure of our lives.  I had assumed the road would be your standard highway to the coast but we kept seeing signs warning of narrow and then more narrow and no truck route, etc.  The scariest part of the drive was on the one-land two-way windy road through the mountains.  Jon was having fun but I think I lost 2 years off my life and was drenched in sweat!  Mid way through the drive Emerson pipped up from his silence in the back – “I think this is a bad idea guys”.  We had thought he was asleep.  Thankfully (I think) we didn’t run into anyone on the 30 miles of one-way highway stretch except a lonely little skunk who we followed for a few hundred meters and refused to get off the road until he jumped in the ditch and attempted to spray us.  Finally we made it to Pismo Beach KOA safe and sound after 11pm and vow never to take that Ocean highway again.

Headed to Elk Grove First Baptist Church

A new hideaway found in an empty CD box!