I wrote this yesterday, but didn't publish it.
On this day 43 years ago, I woke up in my parents' basement in Port Angeles and wondered if I was making a mistake. By the end of the day I would be married and stepping into a completely different world than the one I knew.
Today Marvin and I are going to be focusing on the funny stories from these years. Here are a few:
--- July, hot, and Marvin started out with long underwear on, as a joke, but had to take them off when it became stifling hot!
--- We went to church the next morning, and went to 3 campmeetings on our honeymoon. We also read Lillie McCutcheon's, The Symbols Speak, on that trip. Not to mention spending 3 weeks with his family in Kansas. What????
--- Baked 8 pies a day to sell at the college snack bar and transported them in our Austin Healey.
--- Moved to California and drove for miles in the desert sand --- because we did not believe the map was right when it said I-10 was not yet completed.
--- Hired as youth pastors and lived in the church nursery...had the biggest (3 stall) bathroom, and huge kitchen.
--- Moved to our own apartment and then the earthquake struck...Marvin thought I was shaking him awake.
--- Moved to Ontario and lived in a 100 yr. old house that was a parsonage. Marvin was a 22 yr. old pastor. We knew so little about what we were doing.
--- In Ontario Marvin not only blew himself off of an in-ground gas tank, he went sky-diving for the first and last time---on a dare from his Sunday school class.
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