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Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Goodbye for now
Wow, it's 4 a.m. In 23 hours, I will be on an Amtrak train to CO to see one of my best friends in the world...Kim!!! I'm really excited! I haven't seen her for a couple of months. However, this does mean that I probably won't get to talk to any of you for at least a week. I get back around 3 a.m. next Thurs and on Fri I have college registration 3 hours away from home....I'm gonna log lots of travel time....Oh well. Amtrak's a lot faster than driving all the way. I think we're making the trip in less than 6 hours...(Usually, it's 10 by car.) So, everyone pray that we have a safe trip. (Not that I'm really worried. I think we're way safer in a train than in a car.)
I guess I should update everyone on what I've done the last few days. Yesterday (Tues.) I went to Pilsen, KS with my youth group. (Everyone kept calling it Pilsbury.) I'm surprised it's even called a town. We saw about ten houses and a little antiques/craft shop. Other than that, the only things there were a grade school, a gorgeous old church, and a graveyard. We went for the church b/c Fr. Kapaun grew up in Pilsen and used to be the pastor there. He was a chaplain in Korea and was captured by the commies. He was really inspirational to the other soldiers and ended up dying there. He's a "Servant of God" in the Catholic Church now. (which means he's on his way to being named a saint.) It was really peaceful there in Pilsen. The closest thing we saw to "rush hour" was when four cars drove by in a matter of 2 or 3 minutes. It was crazy. We only saw two people while we were there: a kid on a bike and another kid walking. We also saw a dog once... lol As far as we know, that's the total population. ^_^ They don't even have their own pastor any more. The entire county has one priest. Every Sunday he travels to the 3 Catholic churches besides his own to say Mass. It must be really hard in the winter.
It took us a little over and hour to get up there, so we listened to some fun music in the car. My sister and I rode w/ our pastor (Fr. Weldon) in his truck. We listened to CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival) almost the entire way up (nearly driving everyone else crazy.) On the way home, we listened to Bohemian Rhapsody (since the town originally spoke Bohemian), the Cranberries, Linkin Park, New Found Glory, and Weird Al. All the NFG stuff was covers. (Father thought they were ruining some of the songs, but he laughed anyway.) Overall, it was a very interesting and exhausting day, but I had a good time. I think they're going to make the Pilsen trip a yearly thing. (which doesn't mean a whole lot to me, since I'll be at college next year...)
Well, I think I've bored everyone to tears by now. I'm going to see what everyone else has written while I was gone. See ya in a week!
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