Willem Dafoe and answered prayers

Well this past weekend was full.
and it FLEW by. I can't believe it's time to trod through another week.
Let's recap:
FRI - found out my sister got a job in hawaii and will be moving within a couple of weeks.
Cooked dinner for my grandparent who had come to stay the weekend with me. A dear friend came over and the dinner/visit lasted several hours.
SAT - made breakfast for grandparents. Friend came back over.

**on friday night the brief mention of a kitchen suppliy store in a town an hour+ outside of Austin somehow morphed and exploded into the next day's plan. I was really unsure about what the heck was going to happen if the store wasn't as cool as I said it was and we had driven an hour and a half both ways to go walk around in it. **

around 9 am all four of us loaded into my civic and we took to the open road. on the way there I kept praying that God would bless the trip and make it worthwhile and a joy for my grandparents. so we got there and hung around the courtyard near the kitchen supply store and shopped around. then we went to the bluebonnet cafe. God blessed us with the sweetest waitress ever and she handled my grandpa and his ornery self like a pro. she made their day. they loved it so much. Thank you God for arranging that and making the drive and trip so perfect.

then we got back to my apartment. my grandpa slept and my friend and grandma and i sat in my living room and talked for about three hours.
when he woke up we all drove down to the river and took and evening riverboat cruise. it was so fun.

Willem Dafoe sat next to us. you might remember him from Spiderman or finding Nemo or The Aviator or one of the other billions of movies he's been in.
we're pretty much best friends.

anyways then we went to this radical burger joint and ate and then returned home.

SUN - we went to my favorite resaurant for breakfast. THE kerbey lane. then on to church. after church grandma and grandpa were supposed to follow us to lunch and then leave town from there. well we get on mo pac and immediately five or six cars get in between us and them. so brian, who is driving, slows way down to try and make people pass so we can decrese the gap. but no one will pass. i have never seen anything like it. pretty soon we were leading a parade of cars going 50 miles per hour on a highway were the average is 70 mph. and after this goes on we eventually loose visibility of them. so we pull over at the exit we were going to take to see if they were going to catch up. they never came. so we proceeded to drive around for over an hour looking for them.

they don't have a cell phone and have never driven in austin on their own.

we took every possible route they could have taken in between when we lost sight and where we pulled over. nothing. only hopelessness.

so what can you do?

we prayed about it and then went home to make lunch.

after a while my mom called and said they had called and left a message on the answering machine saying that they were on their way home.

good.

well the trip from here to there only takes 5.5 hours. so after about 7 hours and they still weren't home, it was getting a little worrisome.

it turns out they had to stop for some storms to pass.

but they eventually made it home.

whew.

thank you God for answering a weekend full of prayer.

you are so sweet and faithful.