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| Surprising the Mucher's! |
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| Almost to Cleveland! |
This past week might have been considered crazy and odd in some people's worlds, but not in ours. You see, Amie had been wanting to go to New York to return her friend's bags of clothing and have a chance to see her coach a game. She asked if I'd be willing to make a whirlwind trip to western NY and I said, "Of course! I'm always up for an adventure." We found out she was going to have a game on Tuesday evening and the weather looked good so we decided to go for it. And we were going to surprise her. I mean, who expects to see their friend from Indiana show up on a weekday night to their game in NY. We talked with her husband just to make sure that there were no conflicts and early Tuesday morning we were on the road with the bare essentials (apples, peanut butter, granola bars, and a small change of clothes). We had a few crazy moments where it was a certainty that God protected us. The first happened on St Rd 25 after we passed about 5 cars right next to the road with flat tires. It seemed obvious that there was something in the construction zone that had punctured all their tires. If' we had left at 7:30 instead of 8, then that most certainly would have put us there in the same time period that those cars got flats. Then, later, on St Rd 24 towards Ft. Wayne, we were trying to pass some semis when ice chunks started flying off the top of the semi. We saw several hit the ground in front of us and saw another one, the size of a small dinner plate, in a flat spin right for us. I couldn't take my eyes off of it as it hurtled towards us in slow motion. Amie (the driver) closed her eyes at impact. Somehow the windshield wasn't broken, cracked, or impacted in any way, probably due to the fact that it hit it flat. But the noise it made when it hit....whew!.....it made us think it had broken through the glass and it would have been sitting in our laps. From then on though, clear sailing to NY. We arrived at the school the same time Faith's team did and we hung out in the parking lot until we thought her and her team were in and settled. So we went in and took our seats in the bleachers and waited for the right time. Her JV team took the court and Faith came out and sat down on the player side right across from us and she was looking around, yawning, thinking about the up coming game and I thought I had eye contact a few times but she was just scanning the crowd. Then our eyes did lock and she gave me the weirdest look (I was told later she thought to herself, "Those adults are wearing hoodies, that's weird. That girl looks like Mary Anne, that's weird. No way!"). Even as she walked over to us she had the most confused look on her face. Obviously we surprised her in a huge way and it was great to see her reaction. It was really fun to surprise her like that. We settled in for the games and both the JV and V squads won and we got to see where she teaches/coaches and we headed on back to her house. A good night's sleep later and we spent the morning catching up on life until she had to go into work. We packed up and headed down the road to Houghton where we surprised Alicia and Jason Mucher. A stop at Harrington's for some fantastic subs and wings, a maple syrup factory to get the "real stuff", and a stop at a gas station for some "fuel" for us and we were off to Findlay to see Sara. We didn't get to Sara's until 9 pm and after a good visit we left around 11 pm or so. Then it was the tough stretch on home. We got home close to 3 am and spent a few hours in bed before we were ready to tackle Thursday. Crazy? Maybe. Fun? Yes. An adventure? Always. Don't spend your life waiting for the adventure to come to you.....go TO the adventure!!
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