"Hi there, do you guys have any out of the normal plans for this weekend coming up?"
In my usual jovial style I wrote back,
"Yes, we plan to have our house remodeled by a hurricane. Why do you ask?"
A few seconds later Bob wrote back,
"Oh crap, did not even think about it. I have a three day weekend and thought about taking a flight, but maybe you guys should fly here to get away from the crazy weather!"
No way we could afford that so I said,
"Sure, just buy us two tickets and we'll be right there! lol"
Then Bob posts a picture of two tickets that he found from Norfolk to Ohio and says,
"Don't tempt me I will do it!"
But as soon as we finished that conversation the hurricane trackers all said the storm would curve out to sea and not even get near us.
So Bob decided to fly on down on Friday and stay till Monday afternoon.
Bob set up a luncheon at a local restaurant with friends from church. Yvonne and I were not going to attend because Jacob had a baseball game. But it got cancelled.
When we go to the restaurant everything looked great! Although by the time we got finished eating and fellowshipping it got pretty cloudy and the wind was picking up - a lot.
Bob, are the ribs good?
"Say what....huh?"
Pastor Rodney, Angela, and Gloria Dudley...
And the rest of the gang...
Saturday evening we held our normal evening military ministry activities with Josh Ellinor, John Ortiz, and Bob Kroeger. Andrew decided the weather was too threatening and stayed in Newport News.
Nice looking group of men don't you think???
Mama with her boys!
OK, Bob just because it's Halloween month doesn't mean you have to make scary faces!
Can anybody guess what game we played????
Guess who won the game...AGAIN! Josh is getting really good at this game! The Chicago Cubs won their game too!
As the evening went on the wind picked up, and the rain began to come down in buckets! Looking at our weather apps it was becoming increasingly clear that the hurricane was NOT turning out to sea! Though many lost power, we never did...the lights just flickered few times an that was it! Thank God!
After our activities John decided to brave it and head back to Norfolk Naval Station. We offered to let him stay over, but decided he could probably make it, he did, and safely too. Josh on the other hand, got a text from Tristen, his room mate, that said, "Stay put. Oceana is under FOUR feet of water. So Josh and Bob both spent the weekend with us.
Sunday morning we watched the Chicago marathon and the Chicago wheelchair road race which Tetyana McFadden won! She is my new athletic heroine! I started watching her race during the Paralympics in Rio. She is awesome! And it was so cool to see her take pictures with two little girls in wheel chairs after she won the race!
We got word that church was cancelled so we had church here at the house. We pulled out our hymn books and sang some familiar songs, prayed for everyone affected by the hurricane, and literally spent hours discussing and studying the last three chapters of Revelation!
Our study was interrupted only when Yvonne called us to dinner - her famous spaghetti and for dessert chocolate and vanilla ice cream! After we ate we all went back to our study.
Then we started watching movies. The first one was on the Hallmark channel "Autumn in the Vineyard". You could call it a chick flick. So you know two grown guys love you when they watch a movie on that channel with you! But the next movie that came on they said, "NO! Not another chick flick!", So we changed the channel and watched the old film, "Driving Miss Daisy". They all agreed to that one! Then we watched a movie on Pureflix called "Saved by Grace".
Personally, I was enjoying this. Like I posted on Facebook, "So this is what it feels like to have two grown sons! Hmmm, not bad! "
Then Monday rolled around and the sun was out and everything looked pretty safe. Josh had to go to work so he went back to Oceana. and Bob wanted to go to the Naval Base and see his old ship - the Oak Hill.
On the way we saw some of the damage from the hurricane that never went out to sea!
At the NEX we decided to have some lunch at the food court and ran into Robbie and Kari Howell and their little baby. We sat and ate with them! Yea!
Finally we took Bob to the airport and Yvonne and I went on to our doctor's appointments.
All in all, it was a great weekend for military ministry! Go Matthew!!!
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