Beach, Compton, and CIY Move

Before

After

After a hard days work

Well we made it to California. We decided to change plans and go to Huntington beach yesterday rather than Santa Monica and Venice. Those beaches are to far away, and we wouldn't have enough time. Bad idea, the US open of Surfing is going on in Huntington this week. I've never seen the beach so crowded in my life, it took us almost an hour to make it through town to a point where we could make lunch, get our swimsuits from the trailer, and then shuttle the kids back to the beach while we parked the vans miles from the beach. Because it took so long we decided to stay late and were at the beach until 8:00pm. We checked in at our school and then went to Don Jose' a Kendal favorite Mexican restaurant. This morning we left early for Compton, had breakfast at a donut shop and then proceeded to our work sight. We had a ton of work, cleaning up trash, demolition debris, weeds, grass, and other stuff. We filled one of the biggest dumpsters I have ever seen and all the kids did an amazing job. Many of the kids said it was by far the highlight of their day. We arrived at Biola nasty, sweaty, and smelly, but the cafeteria is awesome, we had a great dinner and then onto the evening session. It was a time of amazing worship, great teaching, and a time with just our group out on the soccer field. It was great. We're tired headed to bed, hopefully we'll have more tomorrow.