Day 9-- To Pelham, GA & Home!

For our final day of Tour ’09, we had to get on the road early to make the long drive from New Orleans to Pelham, GA for an evening concert. Long travel days give us a chance to catch up on sleep, have Bible Study on the bus, finish the Spades tournament, talk, sleep, write inter-bus mail to each other, read, sleep, listen to I-pods, and even work on the website (thanks to 3G!). We look forward to the occasional Truck Stop or Rest Area to move around a little (or play Frisbee if you are a teenage boy!), and we anxiously anticipate our lunch break, taking turns asking Glenn “when are we gonna eat?”

As it turned out, our lunch stop was in Mariana, FL, Glenn’s hometown, so we had the privilege of getting to visit Glenn’s childhood home where his great-aunt and great-uncle currently live. They came outside for a “mini-concert” of about 4 songs that the youth can sing a cappella. What a treat! Later, the good people at FBC Pelham enjoyed the full concert and treated us to a delicious BBQ dinner afterwards.

Daily Journals

Last night we sang at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. We got there kind of early so after setting up we just sat around drinking water. I was supposed to play preservice so I got settled in and used to the piano. All of a sudden, Glenn and some other youth came walking out of a room carrying another piano. I was like, “What?” So as it turns out, Glenn wasn’t happy with the piano I was on. They soon got it figured out because we started singing right after the switch. We opened a little differently by singing about 4 songs standing around the listeners instead of just one. I liked it like this because we could watch the rest of the choir and it sounded pretty neat. The concert went well and the church was gracious enough to feed us after. They were so excited about feeding us a “real New Orleans meal” that they fed us jambalaya.
-Hannah W.