Aloha!
Sorry this is so late this morning. It was a pretty fun night last night with
lots to get in before bed. When I last
wrote, we were just about to look for a spot to eat our lunch. We found a great little park in Missouri
thanks to our GPS that had everything.
There was room for the boys to play some football. There was a nice sheltered picnic area. There was a great jungle-gym. And probably
most importantly, there was a bathroom.
The boys had a chance to “be boys” and run around for a while since we
were in no hurry.
We received another matching grant this morning as well, this
time for $500, bringing the total amount of matching dollars to $1,400
remaining. We are quite a bit behind our
goal of raising $1 for every mile of the tour.
If everyone that read this blog each night contributed $1 every time
they read it, we would shatter our goal.
Almost 400 people a day are reading this! If everyone that was following us just took 2
minutes and went to this link and gave just a couple dollars, we could help
raise almost $3,000 much needed dollars for these boys. You’ve seen the experience these boys are
receiving. Please help us continue it. http://givemn.razoo.com/story/Fund-The-Drive-Trying-To-Raise-1-For-Every-Mile
After lunch it was back onto the bus for a good rest
period. Even without a concert last
night, I still wanted them to get some rest and relax. Usually, we would let them have the day off
from naps but I think the staff just needed the break as much as anything. They have been very wound-up as we get closer
to home and the hour or so we didn’t have to give constant reminders was
nice. We used the rest period to fuel
the bus as well since we had the opportunity.
The rest of the afternoon was very laid-back on the
bus. We played about 7-8 games of Bingo
and gave out lots and lots of prizes.
Stewart got a BINGO in 5 numbers. (Okay, it was rigged. We had some hat pins to giveaway yet and I
told anyone that won they could give-out a hat pin to everyone on the bus as a
prize so Stewart took that option). We
also watched about 3 more episodes of “How the States Got Their Shapes”.
Back at the motel, it was straight to the swimming
pool. We didn’t stay in there real long
because the chlorine was a bit strong.
That stuff will mess-up a singer’s system. You might not know this but we have a pretty
important concert coming-up tonight. The
boys understood. I sent the younger boys
up to get showered and asked the graduates to stay in the pool. We have a big crop of them this year and I
thought it was only right they had one last chance to dunk me in the pool,
especially since they have never been able to do it. They got close a few times, but they
failed. (They did get Stewart earlier in
the night though.)
Around 10:15 we gathered the boys for a quick story before
bed. This has always been a tradition
for Choirboys, but we don’t get to do it as much these days because of the higher
rate of host home stays. (Back in the
day, we would bring sleeping bags along and often sleep in the basements of
churches. It wasn’t ideal, since there
were no showers, but it was cheap. This
always provided us with a chance to get together for a story, something we just
can’t do as much today.) By far, the
most popular story ever told by John was “The Crops, the weather, & the
people…the things that were important.”
It’s been absolutely impossible to come-up with a story that compares to
anything John ever told, but we keep trying.
He has such a gift for that kind of thing. It’s an unwritten code that you don’t tell
other staff members stories on tour either, so I had to start from scratch on a
lot of our stories since the only stories Stewart or I were ever really told
came from other Prefects. J #prefectproblems
We put the boys down for bed and ended another great day.
-P.J.
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