Road trip #3: Ohio with stop in Michigan

October in Ohio is supposed to be fall. At least that is the way I remember it. We have been here since Thursday afternoon and it has been hot, hot every day. What happened to cool, crisp days and cooler, crisper nights? Who voted for this weather anyway?

Well, if the weather is weird everything else is not. We attended Crossroads church on Sunday and shared in Sunday School classes as well as giving an update in the main service. I told a missionary story to the younger kids during their Sunday School hour and they were a very gracious audience. Bill shared with the teens which happened to include Abbie. [She seems to approve of what he said. :-)] In the main service Bill showed the little "movie" he put together about camp. We are beginning to be able to predict the reactions people have at various sections of the movie. We got the laughs, oohs, and aahs in all the right places so I think it went over well.

The day before (on Saturday) we attended their annual craft auction. It was a hoot with the pastor being the auctioneer and people really getting into their bidding. The items went for fairly high prices because the people all know that the money is given to missionary families to buy Christmas presents for their children. We have heard about it for years so we enjoyed actually seeing it this year.

By the way, we did have a great time with Annie, Kelly, Matt and Michael in Chicago. They fed us Chicago deep dish pizza - mmmmmm! Then we stopped in Michigan to see Scott and Michelle Stambaugh. What fun to spend a few hours with them and their church allowed us to share in their Wednesday evening gathering.

Tomorrow we leave for Maryland with a brief stop in Pennsylvania on the way. I wonder, did they get rid of fall in Pennsylvania too?