The first day (aka twelvish hours in a van)

Well, I'm just going to try to piece something together for each day based off of my "journaling" for that day... and apparently I can date these posts as past dates so I'll do that.

So I got up early that morning and ate eggplant lasagna. I was a little excited and made up alternate lyrics for "walking on sunshine." We got there, got prayed for, and went to vans. A lot of people had to cancel last minute... but at least that meant I got to ride in a quiet van not packed with noisy jabber talkers. :3
In Dallas there were cool buildings. Lots of glass, though. It made me wonder what would happen if someone ran down a glass staircase in heels or clunky shoes. Ouch.
The eight people in our van had lovely conversation on deep or meaningful and also fun questions. At one of the rest stops (all due to the other van by the way... ours had superior bladders) Noah and I did goofy dances in the parking lot.
Because of all the space in our fifteen passenger van with eight passengers, the entire back row became the "nap row," but I never used it.
We stopped at a park for lunch. We were still in Texas. It was chilly!
Once we got into Oklahoma, there were tons of casinos and some flat lakes. It was really overcast. We had some random dance parties and Tabitha approved of every single song I chose to put on the CD I brought. :3
Once we got into Missouri, it was dark. There wasn't far to drive until Joplin, but everything looked kind of old. Until we got to Joplin, and a lot of homes looked new. I wondered if they were recently built. There was dinner waiting for us at the church because one family had gone early and it was lovely~

I realized that this is the time in my life where what I want to be when I grow up actually matters. I'm young enough to dream, but old enough to make it happen.

Random significant thought I had. It was written down but I don't have context like a conversation for it.

My cot was a corner one but it kept me kinda separated from the group and I was near a lot of the girls from another church who talked a lot and had all kinds of electronics. I felt superior, journaling and drawing. XP 

And then I went to sleep.