What? Another late night pick up?

Well i have the joy of being so young, considering i was born in 1987.  What does this have to do with anything you say... well the ability to function coherently at late hours of the night.   I was taking care of and in charge of a group from Teyhas from a church called Olny Baptist Church.  But that group was taken from me and was handed to some other team mates Bud and Trula.  The reason behind it was because Scott wanted them to have a break when it comes to doing late night things.  So of course I gladly switched, i have no problem doing this late night deal.

Well the group that came in actually came from the same part of Texas that the other group did.  They came from Bifork Baptist.  Any who, the group's flight showed up about a little after one in the morning and the fun thing is there next flight left at 6:06 a.m. You may be saying to yourself right now, oh hey Paul, they couldn't check there bags in right away could they, i mean the airport doesn't want you to check bags in more then four hours in advance right?  And i say to you fine individuals, Yes.  So after i brought in four boxes of perishable items i remembered that little rule.  I should also mention that i gave them the option to get food on us... GPM, we try and treat the groups well, especially if they have a lay over.  They had decided to stay and get some airport food but because of the whole four hour check in rule we went out into anchorage to the beautiful night, well dusk and the sun still setting in the west.  

So as we went from the airport i was going to bring them to McDonalds and deal with the whole ordering everything through the window which would have been horrible, but as we drove to the airport i turned on arctic boulevard and saw that the rout to get there was blocked because of the marathon that was going to be happening later that morning.  (one of the people we have from North Carolina actually ran in that marathon today.  How cool is that, going to Alaska to run in a marathon and do ministry.  Pretty Amazing! )  But the whole streets being closed made me seem like a crazy driver that was half asleep and had no idea where he was going.  But the team laughed and we all had a good time as we got to McDonalds.  As we got in the parking lot the leader of the group mentioned that he saw a diner open when we first turned and got turned around and so i decided to check it out.  I want to say the name of it was the American Diner, open 24 hours only on Friday and Saturday, THANK YOU JESUS!  Great food, except for the gravy, must be an Alaskan thing, no offense.  But again, great food for a great price.  I will add a picture of it later, but that was the late night extravaganza. 

Plus getting to talk to the team and just laugh with them was fun.  They asked a lot of questions for us, so Tony and i talked mostly but i know it is going to be different for when they come back.  God is amazing... isn't he.

And to honor the last line of the paragraph before last... here are the pictures, different group in the picture then the one talked about though. Confusing Yes, fun always.

(He was enjoying his invisible plate of the two by two - Two eggs, two pieces of bacon or sausage, and two pancakes... all for $6.95.  And yes i only mean $6.95 because there is no tax in Anchorage.)