Baton Rouge

Blog Post About Fall 2020

We had plans to travel to Baton Rouge the second weekend of October 2020 to see some friends, but Hurricane Delta also had plans to visit Louisiana that weekend. We couldn't delay our trip, and since we used to live in Baton Rouge and had ridden out hurricanes in the past, we thought we would give it a try.

We arrived and immediately started visiting people; however, Keira was invited to stay at our host home instead of doing all the visiting, and she had a blast! Who doesn't love pillow fights and spy games where you crawl around the attic?

It's a good thing that she stayed behind. We didn't finish our last visit until 2am!

The day after the hurricane blew in, power was out, but that didn't keep Keira from getting in the hot tub even with all the hard gusts of wind blowing in.

On Sunday, we had to leave earlier than we had planned because highways were backing up, traffic through Lake Charles (that was hit again for the second time in a short period) was not good, and we weren't sure we could take back roads if they hadn't been cleared of debris.

 

(These are the friends we stayed up with until 2am :)

Meanwhile, we left Karis and Caleb back in Texas where they hung out with friends.

Oct 13, 2020

October 17, 2020

Headed to Louisiana and Mississippi

We returned home last Thursday, and we were met by some pretty excited children at the door. Then we only stayed at my parent’s for two nights before heading off again to Brownwood, TX.

We are/were back in Yoakum for a very short time. Doug left town again yesterday to go to Waco and speak to the youth group at the church he grew up in. After he returns Thursday (today) at lunch, we will do a quick turn-around and leave again for Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We will be at Barry & Aimee Staples’ house Friday night from 6 to whenever and Saturday morning from 10 to noon if anyone wants to stop by and see us.

Saturday evening, we will leave for the Reservoir in Mississippi. We are looking forward to worshiping at Pinelake on Sunday. There will be a reception for us Monday night from 6-8 at the gym if you are around and can make it. And we will also be at the Wednesday night service at the main campus.

I hope that when we get settled in Virginia, I will be able to be more consistent with writing. But right now we are still busy everyday finalizing so many things before we can go and packing and re-packing for all of our trips. I'm also trying to get an early "Christmas-type" card out before we leave for Virginia, so those people who don't know where we are living or where we are going can get an update and a prayer card.

With a heavy heart, I look forward to seeing everyone in LA and MS, only to say goodbye again for a little bit longer this time. Thank goodness we have email and internet as we go.