Heading to Tulsa

Monday, September 25
Tulsa 9:00 p.m.

Back to traveling today. We managed to leave St. Louis around 10:30. We are heading west for the first time in our trip--headed toward home. But first we had to navigate Missouri. After a flurry of phone calls, we figured out that the Philipp family was now living about 30-40 minutes from Lebanon. We would be passing through Lebanon, and they would be able to meet us. Jim, Daisy, Faith, Justice, Boaz, Esther, and Jubilee moved to Missouri about a month ago to study with New Tribes Missions.
We figured out that they would be driving south on State Route 5, so we turned off of I-44 onto SR 5 and called them. As we were driving and talking, calling out where we are, we realized that we were waiting at the same stoplight--just driving in opposite directions!

It was really great to spend an hour and a half talking over some ice cream. The only plus to having them out of town is that we no longer get our vans mixed up in the church parking lot. Just in case, after this picture was taken, we did a quick head count to make sure we all had our own kids before we got started.

Once we got to Tulsa, we got a visit from Caroline (college roommate’s mom) and her friend Glen -The-Computer-Genius who came to see if there was any hope for my laptop. He was not able to fix it, but he had some ideas for Brian once we got home and had access to some recovery disks--so there may be hope yet.

The night ended with laundry--and picking corn kernels out of the dryer after washing the little girls’ clothes.