Anyhoo - let's see... where all have we been? Where are we NOW, come to think of it?!?
After wonderful, relaxing, amazing, fun-filled times with family and friends at the Gulf Coast of Alabama (including wicked sunburns and our very first jelly fish stings), we headed north for more visits with family in St. Louis. This is always a highlight for us, since we spent part of our honeymoon there, and always love coming back.
Our time there was brief but beautiful, and then we went north again, this time to the town in Eastern Iowa where we lived for most of our married life. Since our mailing address is there, we had to catch up on correspondence, update drivers licenses, pay our taxes, and do other business stuff. But, it wasn't all business. We laughed. We ate. We visited friends. We ate. We shopped. We ate. We soaked up the sunsets and countryside. We ate. (Catching a trend? There's a reason there's a whole lot more Farrier heading back to Guatemala than left there.) I think we squeezed in more visits with people to this part of the trip than any other, and we sure are grateful for each one! It was so very hard to leave our friends again, but indescribably good to have gotten to spend that much time with them as well.
From Eastern Iowa we went west, and right into the warm embrace of more loved ones, including our church family. The days were long and lazy, just like we wanted them to be. We soaked up the love and hugs, ate all of our favorite foods (we won't mention just how much Chex mix was consumed), worshiped the Lord (in English!), played with farm animals, caught lightning bugs... all the good stuff! This goodbye was also very hard, but we were starting to be ready to be home by then, so off we went, headed south.
In Oklahoma and Texas we caught up with some family and friends we'd made in Guatemala (a missionary and a teacher at my school), and were very refreshed by our time with them. We sure hope they were serious in their offers to have us back again, because it's something we're already planning for our next trip to the States. It's all been a blur, but now we find ourselves near the Mexican border, ready to cross over tomorrow. Prayers are much appreciated, since three solid days of driving can be hard to do. Though we will miss each and every one of our beloved family and friends, we're also very excited to be getting back to the loved ones we left behind at home, in Xela.
Thanks for following our adventure. I wish I'd have taken the time to chronicle our trip better (for my sake, mostly, since it's so easy to forget things like that). But, I can promise you that we treasured each moment, even if we didn't have time to write about it all. And now, it's time to be on the road again.
Thanks for loving and treating us so well, America. See you next time!
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