Heading along the road, in a grove, everyone is doing
great in the car, have a rhythm...and then the car just
quits accerlating. Thankfully, we safely pull over, wondering
of course what is going on.
Good-bye van as we head to Starbucks (yep) to wait for AAA.
God's provision brought us the nicest couple literally two minutes
after we started walking to take us to the next exit, it would have
been a good walk.
It is exciting when you are 4 and 8 years old watching your
big van behind you!
Loading our luggage onto the two truck from our van. We dropped
off our van at a shop that would not be open until Monday. After a
couple of stops and a really helpful AAA driver we came to
the realization it was probably our transmission. There would
be no shops open until Monday to work on the van so we
headed to a hotel.
Luggage on the tow truck, taking the pictures held a bit of my sanity,
The following is what I wrote the following day...
Sitting in a hotel room in Grand Junction. Unsure of what to do....We were four hours into our journey to California and our car broke down. We have about a half hour to decide what we are going to do as that is the check out time of our hotel.
Should we stay
I was on the phone with my mom and I said, "This road to Maui has been...." and I paused and Anderson who was right by my side said, ."excellent". Yes, Bobo, "an excellent road of faith!"
Since May, this road to Maui has been wrought with roadblocks. I ask, "Is this God saying to us, "Maui is not a good option?" Or is it just trials meant to build our faith, reminding us of our own frailty and need for Him. Simply just drawing us and keeping us close, where we always need to be.
We finally decided we were not going to wait to for a start date to set our date to come to Maui. We were told it could be January that Andrew could start, but still no date given. So we said, we will go to Maui, bought plane tickets all with enough time to get ready for Christmas. We strategically planned out our dates. We told our tenants in our home giving them a 30 day notice. We then found out that in Hawaii tenants receive a 45 day notice. So now we had to live in the reality and tension that we may be in Maui without a home, as our plane tickets bring us to Maui within a 30 day notice. During the next couple of weeks with correspondence going back and forth, we feel pretty certain they will allow us to enter our home within the 30 day notice,
Then the waiting with Andrew's job. His soon to be director of sales said that he cannot give Andrew a date and it would be good for him to stay where he is until more tours start coming into the Hyatt Maui. However, we are not at a place we can stay. We moved from our Carmel home on October 2nd. Although, Andrew did ask me the question I did not want to be asked...."Should we stay in CA for a few months until we are given a green light with work? To stay in an area I love is so very tempting with people I love...and yet, it is inevitable that we return to Maui. To find another place to rent, only to wait to leave once again feels hard. We are ready to settle for a bit. And as Andrew continues to remind, we have unfinished business in Maui.
We are on the last leg of this journey, the final road trip to get our things on a boat...and our car breaks down.
Andrew said today, "We are pregnant and waiting." Kind of an inside joke. This is the first line of a book which tells of Advent. We love the passage, it is dramatic and we like saying the line. So here we are in the Advent season, feeling so very far away from Advent festivities, not having a home....or a car right now. Yet, we are waiting (and I only wishing we were pregnant...mmmm).
chilling before bed watching some football.
This was a sign posted in the Village Inn.
Oh I loved our Village Inn experience. We could only
walk to a restaurant as we had no vehicle. So we found
a Village Inn. There were only a few of us in the
restaurant. Talk about comfort food. We ate yummy
breakfast food (at night) while a Cary Grant movie
played. I was in a happy place and definitely the highlight
of our Grand Junction stay!
They found huge icicle's!
This is Bobo taking a family shot of us watching our first
Advent readings from Ann Voskamp...good for the soul!
Then we made Angels for our Advent craft from
some foil we had in our tub we had been hauling
around since October. I guess Advent can happen
even in a Grand Junction hotel with foil.
We diverged a little in an airplane.
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