Day Four

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Today we departed from McMinnville, OR to Eureka, CA. It was a 7.5 hour drive. The drive went by surprisingly quick. When we left we came to a river. I got concerned because the road we were on had no bridge. I then noticed that were was a ferry. I looked at the size of the ferry, then look at the size of the buses and it was not looking too good. I made a video of it thinking that the adventurous ride would prove to be entertaining, but it was not. We ended up turning around because we were too long.

We stopped for lunch and got back on the road. We also drove through the Redwood National Park area. We were only able to stop for a few minutes to check out the huge redwoods and take pictures. The last time I was in the Redwoods was when I was about 9 years old and they still look huge to me.

We arrived in Eureka to Christ Episcopal Church. We were running a bit behind time and were able to unload, eat, and practice before the concert. The church had been kept well since the church’s founding in the 1800’s. Eureka is a neat town. It is right next to the Pacific Ocean. The concert went well and the congregation was very receptive to the music and had a great deal of praise for the youth.

On a side note, I have been fighting an infection on my finger the past few days. I don’t know why these benign little aliments happen to me, but they do. For instance, I am still recovering from a terrible ankle dislocation from Memorial Day. Back to the infection: The day we left my figure was reddish, but I didn’t think much of it, but then it got worse. A few days later, Gina Wilson was concerned about it and we called in some antibiotics. I am taking them and it looks like I am on the mend.

Tonight, some of us were in host homes and others were in a hotel. I was in the hotel, which had no A/C but apparently in Eureka, “no one has A/C”, or so the desk manger said. A few of the adults found out too late that all you needed to do was to open the window to cool the room down. There was a switch in the rooms that was labeled “fan” and “heat” along with a thermostat. Some of the rooms were left in the heat position and It seems that some in the rooms did not realize that they were actually turning on the heat!

We are now a few days into the trip and it looks like the youth are doing well with traveling and singing. We have been really lucky with the relatively cool weather. I called my friend in LA and he said that it was 98 degrees in southern CA.