Midwest Tour Scrapbook

On Sunday, we shared in the worship service of the Oasis of Love in St. Louis. This resulted from Charles & Laurie meeting the pastor and worship leader and their families at a restaurant on Saturday night!

Our home/bus school field trip this week was to the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (a.k.a., the Gateway Arch) where we learned about the Louisana Purchase and about the beginning of Lewis & Clark's corp of discovery. (We had seen the end of their trail while in Oregon!)

a good-lookin' class!

...and...

a good lesson on triangles!

The rest of the week found us racing up and back across the highway between St. Louie and Indianapolis...and Charles & Laurie cruising into their 15th lap of marriage! (Year #14 was celebrated on the 9th and was much better than #13 last year in Colorado while still adjusting to tour life together 24/7 on a seemingly always-breaking-down bus!) (Oh, ... and I also turned 38 this week!)

We then rolled into Indianapolis' Fall Creek Wesleyan and Indian Creek Community churches for their MOPS groups. The kids really enjoyed some lower horsepower as a new friend gave them English-style horseback lessons at her riding stables!

Then, with not much of a pit stop for the week, we lapped back down to St. Louis to perform for a MOPS Council meeting on Saturday. We finally got a much-needed pit stop at a cool water park in Ballwin and a visit to Grants Farm.