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A Trip Across The State

I have been meaning to blog a lot more than I have been, there is so much I want to share with you lovely folks. So here is the first one.
Back in the middle of July I flew to Seattle to help  out with a VBA (vaction bible adventure) the church I went to has been putting on a VBA here for around 14 years and the last year was the first year I went to help with theirs.
Having known that VBA might not even happen this year made me even more thankful for the opportunity to do this trip. So back on July 4th I flew out of Spokane on my own and landed in Seattle. After a bit of a confusing navigation out of the airport that took a security guard, two travelers who realized I was lost, and a man who noticed I was trying to go down the up escalator I finally made it out of the airport and to my host family.
For 4th of July I went with my friends Tori and Hannah to Camp Baracca and enjoyed go karts, a potluck with more VBA related friends and fireworks. On this trip I got to do a lot of touristy fun things like ultimite frisbee, a fun tour of the U-district from Dawna where we found vintage clothes shops, a cool music store, and frozen yogurt. I also went to Alki beach and had another fantastic tour of that area from Jessica, swimming at lake sawyer, sailing from Coulon park with the amazing Brown's,  watching Jane Eyre with the Seims and two amazing worship services at Trinity.
As for VBA it's self I loved being a guide to 7, 7 -8 year olds, I had Moses, who loved that one of the songs had his name in it, Taras and Roman who were cousins, sweet Katheryn who befriended my shy Adeline and finally Ruvim, I had Ruvim last year and he was a different person this year, even though he proved difficult many times he still made me laugh and smile often.
I have always called VBA like a working retreat, I grow in my faith so much after working with teens who have the same values as I do. My faith is always stretghened after a week of VBA. We have a fabulous director, Mrs, Susan Partsch who is my VBA mom, she was so sweet at taking me to the airport the day I left and organized my stay there with the Seims.
I hope it makes me smile when I look back later in life and realized through the summers of my highschool I spent 2 weeks serving with other teens.

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