Last night there was an important business meeting at the church. The church is deciding what direction to take with the school, which is bursting at the seams. The church will decide if the school should become a separate entity, as a study showed the school could raise more money if it was not affiliated directly with the church. That was to have been voted on last night, but was postponed, as the board thought people wanted more time to think about that. So, the other big matter that was discussed last night was the vote on whether or not to purchase 40 acres of land in Andover for a site to build a new school. The contract for the land was contingent on the vote last night, so if the church voted no, or decided not to vote, there were other entities in line for the land, so I'm sure they voted. It sounds like a good property, Andover has it zoned for residential but wouldn't require any special permits to build a school. I think it necessary to buy the land, and go ahead with building a new school. The school is so overcrowded on the existing site, and there isn't a lot of room to build the space that is needed.

I dropped John and Rhonda and Macdonalds (known to John as Old Donalds) so he could play on the playset there. The meeting started at 6, but I left at 7:30 and they hadn't voted yet. There was lots of discussion. So, I'm not sure yet how that all turned out. There was a second item on the ballot too, that hadn't been talked about at all yet.

I gassed up the car and went through the car wash, so by the time I got to Macdonalds, John had been there for a couple hours already. But, he didn't mind a bit. Rhonda said he had been going strong the whole time. He absolutely loves it there.

He whimpered a bit when it was time to go, but not much. I think he knew he had gotten a treat with being there so long. Rhonda asked him to bring over his shoes, and he appeared to be distracted, but he brought them over after a short time. Then I said he could go up one more time and then he had to come over cuz it was time to go. And he went and when he came down the big slide he came right over. Good boy.

Before church yesterday morning, Rhonda went through the car wash again. John was scared a little bit again, but wanted to watch the water. One of the things it does is spray this pink gunk on the car, so in telling me about it, John has been saying "spray...swish swish swish...pink!"

Haven't heard anything more on the trip to Russia...