Well, in case you didn't already know that Methodist love acronyms, you do now. Engineers do too, so I'm in double trouble. I've put together this blog so that family and friends can follow my adventures on my Pacific Northwest Conference United Methodist Church Early Response Team (PNW UMC ERT) trip for flood relief work in Minot, North Dakota. This is my first experience in doing my own blog (thanks go to Sandy for the advice), so we'll see how it goes. I'm doing this by cell phone, so the entries may be short and could take some time depending on Phone coverage. But please comment along the way.

My adventure first starts on the bus, or at least on the way to the bus...Sporting my new fabulous Deuter trekking pack I sprint down the Seattle sidewalks to 2nd avenue to catch a bus. I'm out of luck if I miss this bus since I'm due to meet some teamates in North Bend at 1:30 and there aren't many cheap ways to get to North Bend when you don't have a car. As usual, I'm running late and get out of the office later than intended since I was trying to finish up a report. Luckily (or maybe due to careful planning) I make it to the bus stop with several minutes to spare. I get on the nice Sound Transit bus and chill out for awhile and before I know it, I'm getting off at my first stop, the beautiful Issaquah Transit Center. I honestly didn't know that this would be where I was stopping since I have a bad habit of just pulling the bus cord when the blue dot get's close to my destination on my iPhone map, so it was a nice treat. I then boarded the 209, the smallest public transportation bus I've been on in the Puget Sound area. It's quite cute! I've seen a nice small town, Fall City, and just saw a really old train. It is nice to see our public transportation system in such good use as this bus is full of people. Well, soon I'll be meeting up with some teammates at Safeway for lunch and then it's off to Spoakane! Hopefully, I'll have some more stories to share!