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Mystery Trip—More Mysterious Than We Knew
Written on July 27, 2010
This past weekend we went with the youth group on our annual Mystery Trip. What makes it a mystery is that the students don’t know where we’re going—only we know. And so Thursday at 2pm, we pulled out of the church parking lot, setting off on our mysterious adventure.
Things started off normally—we drove up to Sikeston, MO where we ate at Lambert’s Café, the home of thrown rolls. We had a blast and soon were back on the road again. And that’s when the trip got a little more mysterious.
As we drove along, suddenly the gauges on the van all went dead. Moments later, the radio started flickering out. It wasn’t long before the van was losing speed quickly, and we were forced to pull over.
To make a long story short, our alternator had died. After sitting on the road for a while, we finally received help from a passerby—Gary Brewer and his wife Tina, who helped us get safely to a hotel that night.
While we slept that night, Todd Lawson and Talley Floyd came to our rescue, driving up in the middle of the night to bring us a van so we could continue on our trip the next morning.
Thanks to them, we didn’t miss the St. Louis Zoo, shopping, City Museum, or the trip up to the top of the Arch. I guess this year the mystery of the Mystery Trip was whether we’d make it to our destination or not. So thank you to the heroes who made it all possible.
I told our students that it really doesn’t matter where we go for the Mystery Trip. What makes the trip so much fun and such a great experience is the people who go on it. Even though things didn’t go exactly as planned, the people on the trip made this the best Mystery Trip I’ve ever been on. I would go with them anywhere, mystery or not.
Thank you everyone who was a part of our trip, for making it an unforgettable adventure with tons of great memories.
-Jeremy
Things started off normally—we drove up to Sikeston, MO where we ate at Lambert’s Café, the home of thrown rolls. We had a blast and soon were back on the road again. And that’s when the trip got a little more mysterious.
As we drove along, suddenly the gauges on the van all went dead. Moments later, the radio started flickering out. It wasn’t long before the van was losing speed quickly, and we were forced to pull over.
To make a long story short, our alternator had died. After sitting on the road for a while, we finally received help from a passerby—Gary Brewer and his wife Tina, who helped us get safely to a hotel that night.
While we slept that night, Todd Lawson and Talley Floyd came to our rescue, driving up in the middle of the night to bring us a van so we could continue on our trip the next morning.
Thanks to them, we didn’t miss the St. Louis Zoo, shopping, City Museum, or the trip up to the top of the Arch. I guess this year the mystery of the Mystery Trip was whether we’d make it to our destination or not. So thank you to the heroes who made it all possible.
I told our students that it really doesn’t matter where we go for the Mystery Trip. What makes the trip so much fun and such a great experience is the people who go on it. Even though things didn’t go exactly as planned, the people on the trip made this the best Mystery Trip I’ve ever been on. I would go with them anywhere, mystery or not.
Thank you everyone who was a part of our trip, for making it an unforgettable adventure with tons of great memories.
-Jeremy
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