i just had shrimp and crab dip and grilled shrimp enbrochette at the aquarium restaurant in kemah. don't hate me. :-)
this morning we went to the san jacinto monument and battleship texas. the ship was very cool and educational but the monument was only so-so because the elevator was closed for maintenance.
we rode the boardwalk beast at kemah today. that's a big speedboat that goes pretty durn fast. upon boarding, the kids asked the crew, "where do you sit to get the wettest?" and so we did. and i'm not talking about a little bit of wet. i'm talking like we might as well have taken a shower with our clothes on. that's how wet we were at the end of the 25 min. ride. makin' memories.
so i know i haven't shared any mission trip stories yet. and i'm sorry about that. but we had a great trip. and there's way too much to write about on here, so you'll just have to pick up the stinking phone if you really want to know. but i will say that on the first day in matamoras, clay was distracted by a man stepping out into the road in front of us. clay ran a red light and (we had been in mexico a total of 2 minutes at this point) a non-english speaking officer of the "law" pulled us over. i say "law" loosely bc apparently there are no laws about jaywalking or standing in the street breathing fire or accosting passersby with your spit rag to clean their windshields. but there are laws about running red lights. anyway, it was exciting there for a bit bc there was very little communication happening but we did understand it when the man took clay's drivers' license from him. i know, i know...a mexican prison would have been a better story, but still, it was a little scary since his license was gone. a few of our students were about to wet their proverbial pants at this point. but in the end, all clay had to do was go to the transit authority a couple of hours later (with 2 spanish speaking friends, wisely) to pay his $14 fine and get his license back. hey, this ending kind of reminds me of the gas station story from earlier this summer.
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ACTUALLY, that story ending was NOT a let down because my heart started racing at the thought of a police man having clay's license and then my heart just stayed racing b/c he had to be in suspense for those 2 hours. Although I would like to know how in the world he knew where to go to get it back!!!! That's just an amazingly scary story. By the way, I just got back from four days at Acteen camp and got to hear some far out mission trip stories from some college kids up in wichita. they were some stinking cool young people.
Kelsey Jackson Says:
KEMAH! I'll be there August 30th with Midlo Varsity Volleyball! hahah we went on a scavenger hunt & we had to find something in that restraunt! it was hard & I LOVE THE BOARDWALK! i found my reciept from buying tickets from some of the rides there the other day,..... & now im rambling!
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