Home again

We did actually make it home, late on the afternoon of the 16th.

Since it was Sunday and it was Deutschesfest weekend and we were on east coast time,
we were up, ate breakfast and out of the hotel by 8am. We made it to Odessa in time for the 10am community church service. It was a real blessing to us to end the trip with a neat church service. The Jore family (from ND) lead the service which was mostly singing and music. Lydia danced almost the whole time and the rest of us restrained ourselves so as not to embarrass the Lutherans.

Of course afterwards, we headed for the food. Sausage, Kartofel und gloss, and strudel.
(Some also ate cabbage rolls.) We enjoyed the company of Uncle Keith, Aunt Leanna and Grandpa Tom.
They had a really neat petting zoo setup this year. It included a zebra, camels and a coatimundi. The kids enjoyed learning the finer techniques of milking.


After we got home we went to the effort to sort out the bed bugs from the luggage and crashed.

Thus ends the Virginia Journey of 2007. All told we did it better than Lewis and Clark in many ways. We did it faster and didn't lose a single person.

We are indebted to my mother(Dianne) for braving to travel with us and suffer the deprivations of parenting. We also thank my father (Bob) for doing without my mom.

Of course we give all thanks to God from whom comes every good thing.