Youth Group Trip to St. Louis

So we left on Tuesday afternoon to come to St. Louis. Yesterday on the way up, we stopped in Sikeston, MO and ate at none other than Lamberts, home of the throwed rolls. It was great food and the kids had a blast. Then we continued on to the luxurious hotel we are in at this moment, Econolodge at Six Flags.

Today, we went to Six Flags, and it was awesome. I made the decision to come to during the middle of the week to avoid the crowds, and it worked. We arrived at 10 a.m., and by 12 noon, the group of kids I was hanging out with and I had ridden every ride in the park, including twice on the Boss. It was awesome....until around 7:00 this evening, the biggest storm of the year to hit the St. Louis area struck at the park. The park people called it a phase 6 situation, which means they had to pull everyone inside a structure. The lightning was terrible, and debris was flying all over the place. We made it safely to our two vans after being quarantined in a diner style restaurant for about an hour.

Tonight we will get some rest and go to the St. Louis zoo tomorrow. I'm real excited about that.
I've heard its a tremendous zoo. We'll spend a few hours there, but unfortunately its supposed to be 102 degrees tomorrow (you know, its all that global warming). The heat index is supposed to be 110 degrees.

After we get back from this trip, we have a few short days before we depart Memphis and head to our new job in Guntersville. It will be bittersweet, because we have some tremendous kids in our group, especially the group I hung out with today at the park. All of them were awesome! We are actually officially moving now on July 28th and 29th....so if you were going to come and help us move this weekend, we've postponed it a week. Sunday is still our last day, but we are going on "vacation" next week, It will be a small vacation at home actually, but still it will be relaxing.

God bless you all.