So here we go to Texas! Lizzy and I had been looking forward to this trip since our brothers left for ALERT almost 3 months ago. And the time had flown by; the time was finally here to go to Texas!! We started off with Uncle Dave and Aunt Kathy (Mr. and Mrs. Carnley), Anna, Lizzy and I in the Carnley’s van. And Dad, Mom, John, Luke, David, and Josh in our van. About half way we changed it up, and had Dad, David, John, Lizzy, and I in one van and everyone else in the other van. We decided to play “password” which recently became one of our favorite games. As usual it was David and John on a team and Lizzy and I. It had already been tradition that we would never end the game if Lizzy and I were winning so from the beginning we always knew David and John would come out on top but that didn’t matter it was still just fun to play. One time the “password” was editor it was David’s turn to go he said ‘writer’ John guessed ‘author’ that was wrong. Then Lizzy said ‘correctioner’. John about had a heart attack saying that ‘correctioner’ was not a word and that Liz had made it up. Lizzy and John went back and forth about it then finally they agreed that since Liz had made up a word John could too on his next turn. But it was still my turn to guess the “password” I guessed editor and got 9 points for our team. (FYI according to dictionary.com correctioner is actually a word.) When it was John’s turn the “password” was ‘sober’ and he made up the word ‘undrunk’ of course David got that one right. We went back and forth till it got dark and we couldn’t see anymore. We finally got there, it took forever to sign in and unpack but once we did David, John, Lizzy, Josh, Luke, and I went off to go find a volleyball net to play some vb. It was dark and the only people who knew anything about the ALERT campus was David and Lizzy. Lizzy got us to the inside gym but it was set up for the ceremony for the next day so we couldn’t use that one. Finally we got to the outside net and played volleyball for a few hours. Later that night the Reckners and Shoemaker families arrived. They next day we played more volleyball and games.
Finally it was time to see our brothers, we were pretty excited. After we watched them do drills and the skills that they had learned over the time away from home we watched a video of their journey and listened to them sing and recite 1 Peter. Then it was time to receive them, it was a happy and sad reunion. We were all very happy to see them and I know they were glad to see us. Later that night we played more volleyball till around 11:00 p.m. then went back to the rooms and talked for a few hours and listened to Matthew and Tyler talked about their experience at ALERT. They had some pretty good stories. But during this time Richard Shoemaker decided that he was going to TRY and make Lizzy eat a banana. He knew how much she hates them. The banana was pretty gross….it was mushy and brown. He put the gross banana on a spoon and set it on a table right in front of her. After teasing her for about an hour, the time came to finally make her eat it. Lizzy and I were laying on one of the couches when Richard came over with the banana, I grabbed Liz cuz I thought it would be pretty cool to make her eat it. Lizzy fought and fought she was determined not to let that banana get into her mouth and even with me holding her and Richard trying to make her eat it, because of course we didn't want to hurt her. :-) It was still fun to tease her about it though. A little while later, around
Saturday, we played Ultimate Frisbee for a few hours before it was time to leave. Then we packed up, said our goodbyes and started on our way back to Florida. The trip home was soooo long and we were all so tired. We stopped at Taco Bell for supper but Josh, Lizzy, and I wanted Burger King so we sent Josh over to Burger King. Finally he got back with our burgers, we were soooo hungey. Liz stuffed down her burger before I even got mine unwrapped. I took one look at my burger and was grossed out it was dripping with warm mayo and the bread was soggy and I took a small bite and then lost my desire to eat. So I handed my burger to Liz and she took a big huge bite and about threw up! It was very disgusting. So David offered me a Taco to get the disgusting taste away. But we survived and ended up getting home around 1:00 a.m. It was a great trip; we had a lot of fun, and made some good memories.
Here we couldn't find anything to do (amazing, huh?) so we got Anna to take pictures of us. :-) Since we don't have enough pictures of us already. This is only one of the many pictures we took that day. :-)
Yep! That's us! Becs and Liz
Scary!!
WOW!
Great match!
Katie, Lizzy, and Becky
Lizzy being normal!
This was to the towards the end of the game night and it was getting late and just about everyone was getting hyper, Lizzy here is trying to act cool. (Trying) :-)
