Hello Effingham!

Lol...weird title I know, but it really is the name of a town in Illinois. This last weekend, Josh, a friend and I went on an insane trip to Mississippi to surprise my girlfriend at a softball tourney that she was playing in. It was 13 hours away and we left on Friday night and arrived on sat morning. After a quick stop at McDonald's, we sought out the campus where we thought the tourney was going to be played. After finding the college, but not the team, we found out that we had past it about five miles before, it wasn't our fault that they rent a field 5 miles away! So off we went, and arrived about an half-hour earlier than the team did. This allowed me to scope out the situation, in order to achieve the biggest surprise. After the girls arrived, I walked up to the team as they were getting unpacked and there was my beautiful girlfriend! Needless to say she was surprised!
Well, we got to watch the last three games of the tourney, unfortunetly, they went 0-8 and got really sunburnt(as did I). So at about 3:30pm, we headed for home. Josh and I followed them as far as Cracker Barrel(yummy). We had some minor car trouble and so we decided to make the rest of the trip on our own. Our original plans called for us to drive straight home, but by the time we got to (thats right) Effingham, we realized we were just too tired. So we spent the night in a cheap motel and finished the trip on Sunday afternoon. All told, we drove approx 1700 miles(including the circles we did in Jackson) in a beat up little 1991 Dodge Shadow. That just goes to show the power of prayer! Was it worth it? Oh yeah. I love my girlfriend and would do anything for her...even a 1700 mile trip to Effingham! :)