An hour and a half later, we landed and saw Ron. As usual, his chest-hair looked just mmmm yeah...magnificent.
The church’s bus that we took from the airport to Titusville had a non-functioning door that would swing open and suck little kids out. As cool as that sounded, Ron decided to stand and hold the door in the shut position the whole time we drove.
The first place we stopped was this all-u-can-eat restaurant called Fat Boys. It was...good. This is Andrew posing with some old dude who was suspiciously there every time we came. This was actually the only picture he took on his camera before he was kind enough to donate it to the “REVOLUTION Camera Fund”
After the restaurant we went to the church where we were paired up with one of the Florida kids for the night. I was with Brandon Bledsoe who took this picture of me once I found Ron’s new office....yes this is what Ron does all day.
Brandon didn’t have his license, but he did have a permit so he usually drove us back and forth with his mom sitting shotgun and another Floridian, Brian, giving color commentary.
That night, Ron’s group had a special Thursday youth meeting since we were in town. They split us into groups and gave us a Bible verse which we had to act out in skit form. I played Ron in ours.
People told me it was a dead-on impression. What can I say...I know the man.
The next morning we gathered bright and early to head to Epworth which was actually in Georgia.
On the way, it was noted that my sideburns needed to be trimmed. Thus, I ended up with about 3 girls including Caleb shaving me.
It also happened to be Ron’s 17th birthday so we celebrated that evening.
We then played Farkle. The loser would have to let the last person to go out before them slam their face into a mud puddle. It was Christy’s first time playing by the way. Oh yeah...it came down to Christy, me, Josh and Weber. Josh is terrible at Farkle.
Christy and Weber were the last two before she pulled out a last minute “paper” to seize victory. So she dunked Weber into the mud.
Next up was Mafia. After about 45 minutes of explanations, the adult leaders were ready to go.
The next day began with Charles assisting Ron in planning some fun activites.
This happened during a friendly game of water basketball in the pool. Apparently Weber had the ball and some redneck, who we shall refer to as Dale, tried to strip him of it. Well Weber has issues, especially when it comes to getting stripped of things, so he refused to let go and let his body sink in the pool as Dale clawed his skin off his chest. It was pretty sick but...kinda cool.
Here’s some Florida kids you can all meet. Oh except for me...I live in Albany. But I’m sitting atop Ashley Wheeler and then you got Chris and Megan. People in Florida like Mickey Mouse and play shuffleboard all day.
This would be Esther. She was visiting from Germany for the summer. This is the proper way to say hello.
While I was gettin smooched, Josh was doing his best to not look desperate.
Sure they can buddy. I went and got some postcards to send to some lucky people. I was having trouble writing words because...well lets face it...it was the middle of summer and words and spelling and other literary garbage were the last thang on my mind.
Charles and I like to color coordinate whenever possible.
This is the morning of the day we got ready to return to Titusville. All the boys took a real liking to each other so it was hard to leave.
Anna is the lady in the middle. She was a real nice girl so I felt really bad letting her be exposed to really sick kids....like josh cooper
This was our last meeting place at epworth. We had a monopoly theme, so thats why there’s monopoly banners hanging in the background. My dent was a real big hit.
When we returned to Titusville that night, we split back up with our host families only to meet back up later at a little place called Dogs R Us. Autumn is the girl on the right. She is also the lucky one who Esther was visiting. Get a good look at Ashley Wheeler because in the next pic I’m throwing her into the ocean.
Ok the next morning we all went to a nearby beach in order to experience some of the Florida lifestyle. Now If I recall correctly...and I’m not sure that I do...Ashley Wheeler and I had a disagreement. See, she felt it was ok to pelt me with sand. I disagreed.
It wasn’t too much longer before we had to say goodbye and head off to the airport. Some of the Florida kids got the pleasure of escorting us there. Some got the pleasue of letting Tim lean against them.
After realizing we had a huge delay for our flight we started playing Mafia again. Ms. Field played just as well this time as she did in the first game.
Well eventually we took off...but the plane ride was pretty rough. At one point it was storming so bad that they diverted us to the Muncie airport...but then turned us back around to Indy. I was sitting right beside Weber, who in addition to having insanely sensitive achilles tendons, also has a real problem with air travel.
And as we all know, vomit spreads. Florida was fun kids. I recommend going.
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