Mexico Mission Trip Day 1. Trip before the trip

I would have liked to do some blog post updates while we were in Playa del Carmen but data roaming charges did not permit me to do so plus the Blogger ap is junk. So I thought I'd share some pictures, thoughts and memories from each day of this amazing week.

Our 1st day involved last minute packing and a 6 hour drive to Chicago. Luckily I was driving so I got to control the Pandora station. But we 1st had to figure out how 14 of us plus all our luggage was all going to fit in 2 vans.

The car topper was a huge help though it became noisy from the wind. Turns out there was tons of room in the other van because we had 2 less bags in ours on the drive home. 

Here is our group

Not a lot of excitement or things to see between Des Moines and Chicago other than the world's largest truck stop so we made it a point to eat and gas up there. After that it was straight to Harvest Bible Chapel in Elgin to meet up with our Worship Leader's parents to church it up with them before spending the night at their house before heading to the airport the next day. 

We got to enjoy some pretty good worship music and hear a great message on forgiveness from Bryan Loritts an author and pastor from Memphis and is a brother to one of the church's members. 

After church we made our way to the Dahm's and had pizza for what we thought would be the last time for at least a week. Then we relaxed, stretched our legs and gathered black mail to use on Josh (our worship leader) when we got back. 

thankfully no one was injured in the tree house or on the swing

After that it was pretty much time to crash since we had a little drive to O'Hare to catch our flight in the  morning.