Summer of Travel, Part 6

SUTS Booth with Susan Rose

With families and birthdays celebrated, it was time to hit the road again! Off to the Presbyterian Women's Churchwide Gathering in Orlando, Florida. I was dually excited about this trip due to spending the week with fellow Solar Under The Sun Board Member and "bestie in the midwestie" Susan Rose AND catching up with former "youth" from northern Virginia, the other "AGB", Anne Block!

Back in September 2011, Presbyterian Women informed Solar Under The Sun it would be the 2012 recipient of the PW Birthday Offering! (You can read about that here.) What a huge honor and privilege it is to receive this award.

Sportin' the new stolls with CeCe

Upon arrival in Orlando, we waited many hours in Anne's apartment for the UPS man to deliver 7 special packages. Unfortunately, due to a shipping misunderstanding, the packages had yet to arrive! Thankfully, we were able to spend much time with Anne and wait in the comfort of a brand new apartment for the boxes. They arrived within minutes of the Convention Center closing, but we made it just in the knick of time to set up the booth.

Not only did we stay in a beautiful home with our pals from Living Waters For The World, but we made many new contacts and connections while standing in the booth for hours! We bought books, studied the book of Psalms, and met Anne at the Hoop-de-Doo Revue, one of my personal favorite DisneyWorld attractions.

One particularly slow day, I was reading my Twitter feed and noticed newly installed PCUSA Moderator, Neal Presa, would be making an appearance in Orlando. I tweeted for him to stop by to say hello, and sure enough, he did!

To end the trip, I did indeed stop at DisneyWorld, but it deserves a post of its own. However, please enjoy these two pictures of AGB squared being reunited! :)