The Road to Odessa

Well, we're on the long road Texas. But not before a ton of meetings this morning. I got up at 9:00 and started getting ready, and then had a home teaching appointment with Scott at 10:00. Then I had half an hour to make breakfast (I had bacon and eggs and toast—certainly the biggest breakfast I've cooked in a while, but I had bacon I wanted to get rid of). Then I went to presidency meeting at 11:00, followed by a somewhat impromptu PEC with Lori and Dave (our new ward mission leader). We basically went through our rolls trying to figure out who's gone and who we need to try to find. I excused myself from that at 12:30, and came home to pack and clean out my car. I finished all that just in time for church at 1:30, and I left church right after the sacrament to pick up Becky and Wayne at their house. Then we waited for Sharla (who's riding with old family friends—the Abrams) at a gas station off I-15 in Springville. They were a little late, and we didn't get started until about 3:00. We caravanned with them until 9:00, when we reached Farmington. They decided to stay there for the night, while we decided we were night people and wouldn't be very good for driving early tomorrow morning (plus, we wanted a little more time to spend with the family since we're leaving right after the funeral on Tuesday). So we kept on going, stopping for some dinner at Sonic. We've got Oliver Twist on CD to keep us awake, so I think we'll do just fine. I like driving in New Mexico at night. It's so quiet and there's a full moon and no one's on the road at all.

Posted May 30, 2004 (09:15 PM) | Comments (1)