It has been a long time since we have shared what we have been up to. We got some
appointments in
Tampa after Thanksgiving. It was good to get to see a few people after Thanksgiving before stuff gets really crazy in mid-December. We tried to take some potential Christmas card pics. They did not really turn out and the one we kept is the last one from Miami, but we did get some great modeling pics:)
We went back to Orlando for some Christmas
parties. We were going to miss a lot of parties since we were planning on going to
Miami for a week to meet with some people down there. It is good to see people and meet with people in a non-support raising setting. When you are support raising, many times you can feel like you are on an island where that is all you do and all you know. While we were in Orlando, we met with some referrals and some other people we had been trying to get in touch with for a while. Sometimes I feel like when we are not going to be in a city for a short amount of time, it ends up working out better for us to meet with people. I thought it would work the other way, but it usually does not.
We traveled back to Tampa on Wednesday because we had a small group we were speaking at that night. It was a good to sit in on the small group and be reminded about what transparent Christianity looks like. We are all over the place sometimes we do not get to see our own small group for months at a time. We also gathered some things that we had left in Tampa.
The next day we left for Miami. We knew a few people down there so it turned out being pretty good with us getting 7 appointments in a week.
We had a few funny stories while we were down there. The first of which we sent some of our Christmas photos to the CVS for previewing. The problem was we sent them to the wrong CVS and wrote the store number down wrong. We eventually found the CVS, but just to show you there are 4 in 3 miles on U.S. 1.
One of our appointments there was a knitting club that was that was having there Secret Santa party known as The Sweet Stitchin' Betties. If you do not believe me go to their blog.
It was good to get some time in a place where we were the only people currently living there. Thanks Jason and Judith Ann Stubblefield! We were able to stay in their place while they went home to visit family.
The trip was hard only in the fact that we did not know where we were going, there was sporadic traffic, and Miami is an advanced driving city unlike Tampa and Orlando which is only intermediate. A lot of old high school driving habits started surfacing again :) All in all we enjoyed our time to Miami and we have a lot more contacts when we make our trip to go down to get our Visa hopefully in a few months!
We are currently in Tampa and fly out to Illinois on Christmas Day to visit some of Amanda's extended family and then fly back New Year's Day to Orlando, where hopefully our traveling will settle down a bit. Flying on holidays cuts your flight cost in half which we are totally all about!
