Daddy drove a Cadillac SUV over route 129 from Cleveland to Blairsville very fast, and following a a police car even. It's one of those curvy mountain roads that goes up over the mountains, passes over the Appalachian Trail, and then curves back and forth a great many times until you're down on the other side. It's like a roller coaster on pavement! It was definitely out of my comfort zone, but we were late for a funeral (one member of our party arrived at the starting point late, so we had to really move it!). The vehicle handled extremely well though, and Daddy remembers driving this road inappropriately fast when he was younger and much more foolish. We literally walked in to the funeral just as it started.
But along the way, the other passengers in the car were actually matching up kids with leaders for Summer Xtreme. It takes over an hour to get there, and this was something that needed to be done. So the laptops were with us, and along the drive, we were having this high-speed mobile group meeting about Summer Xtreme, and it was pretty hilarious. On the way back, we were nearly done with the whole thing. We stopped to eat in Cleveland, Georgia, Daddy's old turf, which hasn't changed too much outside of some new bypasses.
But on the way back, we decided that we were being so productive with the assignments of names that we didn't return to the office at all. Instead, we went to Madison's rank camp. There at the dojo, in the parent waiting area, we sat there and continued our work with assigning names to leaders and groups. We did this all while looking through the window at the kids training, kicking, and eventually playing some games. There were no interruptions there, so we were able to get quite a bit done. And it was so much fun watching Madison do her thing out there anyway - the view was nice.
We had KidPak tonight, which consisted of another guest speaker talking to the kids. Lauren did a fabulous job, as she always does. We're raising up a new generation of speakers, and Lauren has been with our younger kids (K-1st) for some time now, leading them and doing such a wonderful thing for them. She spoke to all the kids tonight, again following our "Incredible Heroes" theme. Madison was there tonight for the service, and really enjoyed it.
It was another pretty long day, but things are - like that SUV daddy was driving - really moving along quickly!
But along the way, the other passengers in the car were actually matching up kids with leaders for Summer Xtreme. It takes over an hour to get there, and this was something that needed to be done. So the laptops were with us, and along the drive, we were having this high-speed mobile group meeting about Summer Xtreme, and it was pretty hilarious. On the way back, we were nearly done with the whole thing. We stopped to eat in Cleveland, Georgia, Daddy's old turf, which hasn't changed too much outside of some new bypasses.
But on the way back, we decided that we were being so productive with the assignments of names that we didn't return to the office at all. Instead, we went to Madison's rank camp. There at the dojo, in the parent waiting area, we sat there and continued our work with assigning names to leaders and groups. We did this all while looking through the window at the kids training, kicking, and eventually playing some games. There were no interruptions there, so we were able to get quite a bit done. And it was so much fun watching Madison do her thing out there anyway - the view was nice.
We had KidPak tonight, which consisted of another guest speaker talking to the kids. Lauren did a fabulous job, as she always does. We're raising up a new generation of speakers, and Lauren has been with our younger kids (K-1st) for some time now, leading them and doing such a wonderful thing for them. She spoke to all the kids tonight, again following our "Incredible Heroes" theme. Madison was there tonight for the service, and really enjoyed it.
It was another pretty long day, but things are - like that SUV daddy was driving - really moving along quickly!
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