January 21 – “I’m so bored”

We made it all the way to Waco with very little difficulty.  We took the Beltway around Houston because both travel apps indicated a wreck downtown and significant slowdowns on the loop.  The tolls are an extra expense, but there was sure no traffic.  We even found a courteous driver who allowed us to change lanes at a toll booth when we found ourselves in an “Exact Change Only” lane.  Kind of rare in Houston.  Cailyn went with us, and for the first hour or more she watched a DVD with her headphones on.  She re-emerged into the world just before we arrived at Buccees, our halfway point stopping place.  The second half of the journey proved a bit more of a challenge for her.  In her words, “I’m bored.”  That led to a round of the alphabet game, where Cailyn smoked all of us when she instituted the rule that letters could be located on Pokemon cards.  Of course she was the only one with Pokemon cards.  Chris then suggested we sing some of the songs Cailyn and I sang when I had my ukulele.  Guess which song Cailyn picked?  And the only one she picked.  “I’m a nut.” 

Then, in the crowning statement of the trip, she suddenly cried out again, “I’m so bored … I want to be entertained.”  That devolved rapidly into a made-up game involving locating certain live animals.  We had no problem with cows.  They were everywhere.  Horses showed up every so often, as did hawks.  Nani was the best at spotting hawks, which was good for us, since she was driving.  We saw quite a few goats when we got closer to Waco.  We even saw an emu on one farm.  Strangely, though, we never could find a donkey or a dog.  Happily, that search took us all the way into Waco and to Josh and Christi’s house. 

Colossians 1:6 says, “All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth.”

Father, thank you for watching over our travels.  Amen.