Seattle Trip 2013

Hey! So it's been a really long time since I blogged last. Well, I'm back and I'm bringing you Seattle! Me, my dad, two of my sisters, and 10 others from our church went on a mission trip to Seattle to help out with a church plant, Essential Church. We had connected with them when my family was in Seattle last August. It was great getting to know the people there and it was even more great to see them again this past March!

Here we go! At the Atlanta airport, early Tuesday morning, and ready!

View from the plane. It was so pretty!

 When we got to our hotel in Seattle, we looked out our window and could literally see the campground we stayed at back in August. That was neat!

Here is our group minus Pastor Matt... he took the picture! Tuesday night we ate dinner at Ivar's. It was... interesting.
After we ate, we headed over to the community center for volunteer training.

 On Wednesday, it rained and rained and rained, and part of our group went to a neighborhood and put out door hangers and prayer walked. It was a great experience.
After that and lunch, we met up with the rest of our group and went to a middle school flag football game where we served hot chocolate, granola bars, and Chuckie Cheese coupons (more on that later).

They even played in the rain.

   It was cold. As you can see...

Thursday we toured the city of Seattle. It was a little rainy and cold that morning, but it cleared up by noon. It was a lovely day to walk around the city. We visited Pikes Place Market where they have a bunch of neat things and fruits and vegetables. Of course we had to visit the Original Starbucks, and the Space Needle.

One drop = 20 minute burn. Nice.

My beautiful little friends, Erin and Lydia!

This guy looked just like a statue! He was cool.

The kids of the group...

We also served at Chuckie Cheese this day, but I didn't get any pictures. Lots of children showed up and it was great!

 Friday we did more prayer walking and door hanger hanging.
And we did a lot of sitting in the hallway of the hotel. (we did this at least once everyday during our free time) It was sweet fellowship. I loved this part of the trip!

Saturday, the entire group went to Odle Middle School. We all split up and did different things. Us girls punched out letters for bulletin boards. There was a lot to do, but we had fun helping out! The others painted benches and bleachers, and such things as those. It was a day of service and it was lovely!

Sunday, we had church service. It was their first service, and it went really well. A bunch of the kids that were at Chuckie Cheese Thursday night came, so that was extra awesome!!!

kinda blurryyyyy...

For dinner, before heading to the airport that evening, we met the entire group out at this crazy restaurant. Can you see all the stuff all over the place!? It was crazy. That is all I'm saying. ;)

Here is the groupy group! :D

I had such a great time on this trip! I'm so looking forward to the next one!!!