To cap off our week, the Keokuk mission team went to Adventureland for a much deserved rest. I know that it’s sometimes lame to wear matching group t-shirts, but these ones were fun:
Adventureland isn’t a new experience for me. I should have realized going in how much it would change me though. Some people in our group have never been to an amusement park! The sparkle in their eyes were like what you’d see from people who’d never heard of religion and then had a mystical experience: pure amazement and fear and wonder at the same time. Every new ride they did they wanted to repeat over and over again. Here are some pictures I got of some of our group who did some fun rides:
I’m glad that so many had fun. I even enjoyed some of the rides that I didn’t like as a kid, like the Dragon (one that goes upside down with two loops) and the Tornado. Both of them were ones I was afraid of as a kid and now seemed absurdly tame compared to what I remembered. When we first got there it started raining. We were afraid that the entire night would be ruined. It turned out, though, that many left the park and the lines for the rides were incredibly short! When we got back we found out that the rain we had was only a foreshadow of the real storm that came and hit Newton and the campground. Luckily some had stayed back and were able to “close the hatches” before too much damage was done (surprise floods and such). We’ll have to wait and see how the work sites are tomorrow morning.
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