Pam & Mary’s Big Bus Adventure

Preparing the Big Bus

Whew! What a long day! I did a terrible job of taking pictures, but honestly does anybody care to see a picture of the poptarts we had for breakfast? – which by the way were the bomb! It’s been a LONG time since I’ve had a poptart for breakfast. We headed over to the USA Tours office around 9:00 and began rearranging the cabinets on The Bus to be the way we wanted them. Shout out to my husband who did such a fantastic job packing all the nonperishable groceries in my Pilot. Wish I had a picture. Made it so easy to transfer to The Bus.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

Colossians 3:23

We thought that loading The Bus might take us until noon. But at 1:15 we decided to take a break and eat lunch at Maid-Rite. For those of you uninformed about Maid-Rite, it is the cousin to Nu-Way and my high school hangout. So I have to go every time I’m in Rolla.

After lunch we bought the rest of our refrigerated groceries. And by the rest, I mean, enough for the first 4 days. We will hit the grocery store again on day 4 in Savannah. Some how the little task of shopping and loading the rest of the food took us until almost 5:00. After our boss, Nick, went over our final itinerary with us it was 7:00 by the time we finally got home. Oh ok, I guess I should admit that we had to make another grocery stop at Price Chopper on the way home because WalMart was out of Coconut Creamer. If you followed our other bus trip, you know that this is an essential part of my daily sustenance.

Once we got back to my mom’s we washed some fruit (did I mention The Bus does not have running water in the kitchen? Details.), hard boiled some eggs and made a tomato pie for tomorrow’s lunch. One of our “southern touches”. Then my mom made us a delicious dinner of salmon, asparagus, spinach & strawberry salad, and wild rice casserole. YUM! I wish I had taken a picture of that! Are you beginning to see a theme here?

Don’t these tomatoes look delicious?
This was my job – cut the tomatoes & put them in the shell.
Mary preparing the filling for the tomato pie.
All ready to go in the oven.
Ta-Da!
Should I be embarrassed that we had to google how to hard boil an egg? We followed the instructions to a T including the ice bath at the end.

Now it’s off to bed in anticipation of our early morning tomorrow! Hopefully I will do a better job taking pictures tomorrow. It should be a little more interesting day.

4 thoughts on “Pam & Mary’s Big Bus Adventure”

  1. What a big day!!! You both have my admiration for taking on this big task into a new adventure. And without running water????

  2. We admire you both soooo much!! Taking on another fun adventure…can’t wait to hear about it !!! Katie and Buz Lukens 🙂

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