Wooooowww!!! We have made it to GYC. After a harried day of packing, last minute Christmas shopping, Christmas parties with friends, making final GYC registration changes, and then rushing to the airport at 3am.....only to be followed by many more adventures, we are safely in Minneapolis MN. (We still barely made our flight and in the process of going through security, Sunny and I almost lost 2 of the computers we were carrying! We each had 2 laptops we were taking....our own, plus two others to help out with GYC registration. But in going through the x-ray line, I left one of mine behind....and Sunny accidentally grabbed someone else's. Both her and I, and one other poor guy were freaking out that we'd lost our computers!!! I'm like, "Oh no....someone mistakenly took mine and left theirs!" And she was like, "Oh no! I have no idea what my extra laptop looked like. Is this it?" And the other guy was like, "Someone stole my lap top!" Finally we got the confusion all figured out! Praise the Lord! ;-)
Sunny and I had some extra time to spare when we got checked in to our hotel as our first Registration meeting wasn't till later in the afternoon....so we went on an adventure, weaving our way through the sky-walk of a maze of different buildings until we found the train (called the "Transit system" here) that would take us to the "Mall of America." Sunny had never been there before so wanted to check it out. As it turned out though, we barely had 45 minutes there (imagine that at a 4 story mall with theme park besides), before we had to turn around and head back to the train station to get back in time for our meetings. Whew!!! It was crazy! We only made one fast paced loop and went in one store and we had to run. "At least..." we both reasoned, "We got to enjoy a fun train ride!" Tim's plane had been delayed, so unfortunately, he did not get to spend the day with us. We were sad about that!
Then this morning GYC registration started with a vengeance! I got to be part of the Registration team and had a blast meeting people and helping solve registration problems, but it was also a very looooong tiring day. Was checking people in, and running Credit Card's for on site registration basically from 10am until 9pm straight. Finally we decided to close registration and it will be open again tomorrow. I need to help with the CCBN booth though, so will probably spend the rest of my time doing that. Hopefully somewhere in there, I'll also get to visit some other booths, attend some meetings, and....you know maybe, enjoy GYC!! ;-)
Ahhh well....no complaints! It's all good! Just part of the fun adventure of life! Mom and Dad are here, so it's been cool to see them, as well as lots of other old friends. I'm sure I'll have much more to blog about later, but for now....I think it's been a long enough day on the computer, so I shall say "goodnight!"
PS: Important prayer request!! One of our key team leaders for GYC has been attacked by some virus or infection that paralyzed him. He just work up this morning and couldn't move his arms. He's currently in ICU as they seek to discover what happened or went wrong. Pretty scary!!! Tim spent most of today with him. Please pray that he will be healed, and the symptoms he's currently having will be resolved. He's sedated and intubated now, so doesn't even know what's going on anymore.
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