Day 1 of California 1

We began our travel for CA1 Summer Conference of CIY today. Day 1 was an extremely long day . For Kevin Greer, the director of the week, his day started by waking up before 3.30 am Central Time. Kevin, Abbey and I flew out of Tulsa at 8.00 so he had an extremely early morning. Abbey and I were fortunate to drive down to Tulsa the night before and stay with her parents.

We made it into Orange County about 11.00 am West Coast time and one piece of advice I learned yesterday - renting a car the weekend before July 4 can be an annoying, long process. Although we already had a reservation, everyone was disorganized and had no idea what they were doing.

Anyways, then we got some In-N-Out for lunch, meeting in the afternoon, quick nap, and then some stinkin good BBQ. We ate at Lucille's BBQ, located only out west and it was some of the best BBQ I have had in a long time. A Jamba Juice run, and then all of our interns arrived about 9pm and then the semi truck arrived about midnight. Load in at 8am in the morning.

The good new is that one of the churches has already arrived, and another church is arriving on Sunday. Both churches account for almost 95% of the people coming, so it will be nice for them and for us for them to receive all of materials they need before Monday.

Sunday will be a long day of set-up, but Matt Foreman, our production manager, will be in charge meaning there is nothing to worry about.