Florida Fiasco!

Sarah and I were looking forward to going to Florida to the 19th Annual Trinity Presbyterian Family Advance Conference in Destin, FL last week. We were getting packed and ready when Solomon got sick the day before with the stomach virus. Then, the next day, Arthur got the bug about an hour before we were scheduled to drive to Alexandria to drop the kids of with my parents. Arthur was sick on the drive down. Then, Sarah got the bug in the middle of the night and we wondered what to do about the trip. We ended up leaving late from Alexandria and headed to the conference. The conference went well and a good time was had by all. Then Saturday evening, our last night in town, we were headed to have dinner with some friends and our van was rear ended by a Cadillac Escalade and it ended up totaling our vehicle. We were stuck in Florida for an additional 2 days trying to get that sorted. During this time there was a tropical storm, Ida headed right toward the coast and that only made things more eventful. We did finally make it back to Monroe on Wednesday night. It was a fun and challenging weekend. When it rains, it pours. I wonder what the Lord was trying to teach us during this whole weekend. Glad we went, even though things didn’t come close to going like we imagined they would. Sarah and I are okay from the wreck and are still scratching our heads over the craziness of the whole weekend.