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Glorieta, Day 1
I arrived in Glorieta, NM today at the Lifeway Conference Centers’ crown jewel of camps. No other camp compares. I’ve been to MANY, as far as sheer beauty, options, and a sense of holy expectation is concerned.
I made the trip with Stephen Weathers, BCM Director at UAPB. We stayed in Amarillo last night but didn’t get to bed until we’d seen the Bourne Ultimatum with some other folks heading to Glorieta.
Our first stop today was Target (to get a toothbrush for me and some stuff for him). Then we went to Dennys for a Grand Slam before making the remaining 4 hour drive. We had to stop and get some pix of the Cadillac Ranch (just one question about that … Why?)
Then back on the road. We arrived, checked in and I discovered my room had a pond-view. I’ll post pix tomorrow. I took a brief nap and then went to the “chuck wagon” – in the process running into some old campus ministry buddies.
Stephen hadn’t been feeling well and called to ask me to come back by his room. Come to find out, he’d spent the last 20 minutes throwing up and had intense stomach pains. He was concerned enough to ask me to take him to the hospital. So back on the road we went. That was about 6:00 Mountain time, and I’m still sitting here in the ER waiting room.
It’s 10:20. I did slip out for a Quiznos sub and a quick walk-through of Borders Books in Santa Fe. So I’m posting from my trusty iPhone and craving my bed.
Long day. In some ways I’m extremely disappointed that I missed tonight’s first session -they’re always so awesome. Ah well. I am where I’m slowed to be even if it’s not where I want to be. I don’t think Stephen really hoped to spend his first night here getting a CT scan.
That’s the crazy thing. We both think it was food poisoning but they want to rule out appendicitis.
This is all gonna be a great story about how our best plans and intentions can still be changed in a moment…
Update: I’m back at Glorieta; it’s 12:10 a.m., MT. It is appendicitis, and they’ll be operating sometime in the wee morning hours. Wow. Crazy.
dang! i’ll be praying for stephen. and you just may have answered the question i posed in my latest post… “is the iPhone that good or that bad?” blogging from your dang cell phone… what the???
Wow, what a day. I guess ya’ll are glad now they did a ct scat. Can’t wait to hear more praying for Stephen, have a great time.
Hope you are having a great time despite the hospital.
I have been to cadillac ranch. It is pretty cool.
There are some cool links for the Cadillac Ranch here and here. Also, Stephen’s surgery went well. he will be out of the hospital tomorrow, and I think he’s going to fly back to Arkie Tuesday.
The 3rd Caddie from the left is mine…I left it there over 19 years ago! Sigh!!! Such great memories!!
Really???!!!