On the Road to National Convention

We took the long route to Colorado Springs and Open Bible National Convention.  We started last Thursday and drove to Austin, Minnesota, for Mike to pick up his golf clubs that our son Paul had stored for him while we were in Hungary.  And, of course, we got to hug Paul and Kate and Levi.

Nancy's sister Neola loaned us the use of her VW for our trip.  Little Levi really liked it.  Paul said it looks like the car in one of Levi's favorite books.

We drove on to Rapid City, South Dakota, where we attended Mike's 40th high school reunion.  A few of Mike's classmates who were there are pictured above.  We had a wonderful time, but kept wondering where all these old people came from.

On Sunday morning we enjoyed the service at Open Bible Center in Rapid City. We got to see several of the people Mike knew as a kid growing up in this church. After the service, we decided to find a steak house to  eat some good American steak. It took some driving around to find an Outback Steakhouse about a block from our hotel! We had just sat down when Pete and Joanne Kopp spied us and invited us to join them and Pastor Les and Sharon Potts for lunch. What a wonderful time we had talking together and remembering how God has worked in our lives. 

Finally today we drove the rest of the way to Colorado Springs, checked into the convention hotel, and are anticipating a great time with our Open Bible brothers and sisters.