San Diego Impressions

My impressions of San Diego over all are good. Things cost a lot more here. Gas is now over $4 a gallon and food is really high. The weather has been great. Generally in the mid 60's to low 70's the whole time we have been here. Most of the people were friendly. The Church we attended was great. Very friendly helpful brothers and sisters. The hotel we stayed at over all was great. We made "guest of the week" one week. There was only one bus load of kids one night the whole time we were here. Anytime you have a bus load of kids they will end up running up and down the halls. I remember when Gina was getting out of college that CA was recruiting very heavily with big bucks to get teachers to move to CA. Now the Governor is cutting back on the budget and the newer teachers, nurses, and fringe personnel are being cut back. People have been holding rallies to "save the schools". Some school districts are charging almost $400 for the kids to ride the bus to school next year and they are not going out more than a few miles. The housing market is falling apart. Some neighborhoods have a large percentage of repos and the houses are selling for up to half what people paid for them. Still overinflated. What goes up must come down. Everything is green this and green that. Not in color but save the planet green. I remember the tree huggers starting in CA when I was growing up out here. If you repeat it enough, they will believe it. I told you earlier what the funniest thing Lee did at the BBQ restaurant. When you have Fibromyalgia one of the "perks" is what we fondly call Fibro Fog. Otherwise known as a major lapse in thought or memory. I have gone places and forgot to put any make up on or combed one hair on my head. We have a couple 3 oz bottles sitting on the bathroom vanity in our hotel room. One is hair spray and the other is special glass cleaner we use to keep our glasses clean. It was windy out one day so I grabbed what I thought was the hair spray and proceeded to squirt extra squirts on my hair. Once my nose kicked in and told my brain that wasn't the right smell on my head, it was too late. I stood there looking at myself in the mirror and quickly decided I looked and smelled squeaky clean and sprayed some hair spray on and called it good. We have enjoyed our time in San Diego but we are both ready to get our home reestablished. It's great having someone make your bed and breakfast every day, but it's not home. I don't know of anyone else besides Lee who considers seven weeks of classes as a vacation, but he sailed through the classes and off to Kwaj we go. We were contacted by a Brother who used to work and live on Kwaj. He is bringing four more preachers with him in a week to build a new church building on one of the small islands that is a part of the Atoll. He is going to introduce us to some of the native brothers and sisters. They are going to hold a gospel meeting in Oct. in their new church building and they are going to start a preacher school for the natives on that island. Looks like God's plan is being revealed to us. Blessing to all!

Official

It's official. We are flying out of San Diego on Sunday April 27th @ 12:30pm and arriving at Kwaj on Tuesday the 29th @ 11:50 am. That is Monday the 28th @ 5:50pm central time (if I figured it right). That is a week earlier than we were scheduled. We are both ready to get our home established again. The shipment of our stuff is scheduled to come in on May 7th so we won't have to wait much more than a week. Hopefully that will give us some time to catch up on the time change before we tackle getting everything settled in the house. Blessings to all.

Early

It looks like we may only have one week left in SD. Lee will finish his class on Friday. I'm not sure when our flights will be. KRS will decide all that and tell us what flights to catch. We have been wrestling with AT&T cellular to get out of our contract. They have asked for some really ridiculous things to prove we are moving. There is no common sense to their reasoning. Our cell phone will be cut off for good on April 30th. The cell phone won't work on the Island so whatever date we fly to the Island we will lose our cell phones anyway. I'm not sure how long it will take us to get our phone on Kwaj ordered and installed. Things should be settled soon and I will let you know. Blessings to all.

Rambling

Happy Birthday Sandra! Are you still 29? The Parade magazine last Sunday had a listing of "What People Earn" I was depressed to learn that Leona Helmsley's dog, Trouble, earned $12 million last year. Leona left her millions to the dog when she passed away. A caretaker has sued the dog for the money. None of them will take it with them when they pass away either. There was a perfect storm at church last Sunday. All the leaders of the church had a situation where all but one were out of town at the same time. One of the leaders rearranged his flight so he could deliver the sermon. It was just Lee and him for class. Lee ended up leading singing. He did a good job. Everything is falling into place on Kwaj. Our house is being prepared. Our sponsors on Kwaj have bent over backwards to help us any way they can. The house we are getting is an older house with cinder blocks and bricks. They are best for not having a mold problem. They were built before dishwashers were the norm. This one has been refurbished so we have central AC and not the window units that are noisy. Our sponsor found a portable dishwasher on the island that had not been used very much. She talked them into bringing the price down in half of what they were asking. They are the greatest. One of the few hobbies I have is growing our own tomatoes. There is no comparison between a store bought tomato and a home grown tomato. Lee ends up doing most of the work helping me get them started. We were told that tomatoes do not grow well on the island. I suspect it is the salt water. I have grown ten foot tomato vines before so I have to try. Macy's is closing so our sponsors went to the store to buy what I needed to try and grow my tomatoes. Amy, I need you to pray for my tomatoes. Now that I know how many and what size my windows are we went shopping for window curtains Sat. There aren't any to buy on Kwaj. My niece had told us about a two story Target somewhere in SD. We found out where it was and checked it out. Unfortunately they did not have what we needed. We ended up going to JC Penney. Our sponsor had told us that JCP would mail to any AP address without any tax. I found what I wanted in the SD store and bought only a few sets to take with us in our suitcases. The rest I bought on line and had them mailed to Kwaj. They should be waiting for us when we arrive. Blessings to all.

Zoo Good Time Two

My blogger would not let me post two images so I will do two posts of the SD Zoo. A lot of the animals were taking a nap when we went through but the elephants were out throwing dirt on their backs. We were told twice how close the monkeys DNA is to humans. I think I have a much closer resemblance to this beauty.
Blessings to all!