"Come and get us...it's an emergency"

Ok so this last weekend was a bit crazy. It was pretty clear that things were going to not be easy when just the day before our Junior High retreat 3 leaders came down with the stomach flu. Then, on the way to camp just about 2 miles from camp the van with all the sound equipment was side swiped on the freeway. Since the person who hit the van was told by his company that they had to file a report our van was on the side of the road (with one of my staff people) for about an hour an a half. Finally they got on the way to camp which is normally about an hour and a half drive. Somewhere though there was a big accident and it took us about 2 hours to drive 14 miles. I had all my kids in the car and Danielle and I were just shy of going nuts.

Later that night we finally got to camp and everything was good except we forgot to mention to the band that they would need to bring bedding. At about 12am I drove the band to the only hotel near by. It looked a bit sketchy and there was a shouting altercation going on between a couple guys when I dropped them off. I made it back to my room at about 2:30am and woke Danielle up to tell her how bad I felt that we didn't have very good accommodations for the band. That's when one of my staff guys knocked on my door and said the band had called and they needed us to come get them because they were in the middle of a "fight". The reality was that they earlier fight hadn't ended and things were a bit tense at the motel. They called the police and when we got to the hotel there were 4 police cars, a bunch of cops and a few guys sitting on the curb. The band was escorted down and we drove away in the minivan. Of course we still had the problem of not having a place for them to sleep.

We found an 14-Hour WallMart and bought sleeping bags and pillows and drove back to the camp. The band was all set up around 3:30am and I was in bed and asleep by 4am.

The rest of the trip was amazing and everything went well. It sure was a crazy night though.

Comments

[phil cunningham]

who was the band? Sounds like Motley Crue or something with the whole fight thing. Did I ever tell you about the time I was speaking at a camp on woodby island and went to the wrong camp?

[Don]

Aren't you so thankful that you've always got contingency plan? Kinda reminds me of a few trips I've been on, minus the car accident, bedding issues and band fight...