Signs and Wonders

Day three of tour: It’s a new day and we went from New Jersey to New York. We had our best concert so far at the Open Door Church in New Woodstock, NY, but spending 6 ½ hours in a van to get there will do strange things to you.

Road signs fascinate me. Sometimes they don’t seem to make sense.

Pay

STOP

Toll

There is a toll for stopping? Oh, oh, oh, you have to STOP and pay toll? Then why don’t you just say

STOP

Pay

Toll

It would be much simpler. To keep the driver of our van entertained, I took to interpreting different road signs. The –Deer Crossing 3 Miles- signs are always fun. Then you hit a –Snowmobile Crossing- sign and it gets even better. Then you have the random billboards that don’t really say much of anything at all. –Three Bear Inn : Marathon- Why marathon? What does that even mean?? You’ll sleep like you just ran a marathon? Only marathon runners can stay here?  Then about 50 miles later, we saw that there is a town called Marathon. Good to know. 

We eventually made it to New Woodstock and had a wonderful meal and a great concert, followed by fellowship with members of the church. It was a good night. And to top it off, all 9 of the girls in my choir were able to stay in the church’s parsonage/mission home by ourselves for the night. It was like one giant slumber party. Another girl and I even got up the next morning to make us all pancakes! 

Tour is wonderful, but I’m getting no homework done. But does that really matter?  . . . Maybe. I’ll worry about that after I’m too worn out to think about trying to have fun. 

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