Return to Houston
Mood:  happy
Topic: Theology III '05-'06
We have returned to St. Mary's Seminary after a nervious and stressed filled weekend. I returned to a room that was unchanged from when I left it, but a seminary that was not...a few trees were downed by Rita. Though I did not have class it was not a restful time. I was worried about family the whole time. Please pray for them and all who were affected by Rita as they return to their homes to assess the damage and start looking toward needed repairs.


Rewind to Thursday morining when we left for College Station. -- We started out at 5:45 am planning on taking mostly back roads knowing that the major outlets would be parking lots literally. Due to the help of a map program on a guy's lap top we navigated away from packed thoroughfares and off of roads when they became backed up. We knew we were off the beaten path when a paved road we took ended and a dirt road continued in its stead. Twenty minutes and four roads later we were back on black top and moving North by Northwest, with the occasionaly jaunt eastward to catch our next back road. Five hours and thirty minutes from the time we pulled away from St. Mary's Seminary in Houston we pulled up to St. Mary's Catholic Center in College Station...Our Lady Queen of the Highways was surely looking after us and guiding us to open roads. This trip on a normal day takes approximately one hour and thirty minutes, but on this day took others up to sixteen hours. In all the trip was adventerous and a blast though it was tiring and I was glad to be out of the car.

Now we are back in the seminary with classes resuming tomorrow. Pray for us!