Highs:
– Saying yes to team leading
– Staying at the most hipster hostel in Georgia: Fabrika (look it up, it is super trendy)
– Eating a burger that tastes as close to an American burger as I can remember
– Celebrating my new teammate Kaylin’s birthday by going to see the live action Aladdin and the whole squad showing up to watch with us!
– Hearing everyone’s stories within the first week of being a new team.
– Getting to stay in a small beach town: Kobuleti
– Having the opportunity to take slow mornings to exercise and spend time with the King.
– Having team emotional check ins and team worship everyday from 10:30-12 to take time to ask the Lord what he wanted our day to look like.
– Getting shawarma everyday for lunch from our friends at McDonors and building a friendship with them.
– Making cookies and sharing them with the family at our guesthouse and with the McDonors workers
– Getting to play hide and seek with the little boy of the family living at the guest house where we were staying.
– Buying flowers for the mom of the guesthouse for her birthday and giving her a sweet note (then seeing that she posted about it on Facebook later stating that she had never felt so loved by strangers)
– Passing a volleyball around in the park and including roughly 20 kids in our circle game.
– Playing soccer and jump rope with the kids at our neighborhood park. Playing with them and loving them.
– Worshiping in public at a park near the beach and then going to pick up trash on the beach as a team.
– Watching the sunset over the Black Sea
– Jumping in the Black Sea as a team for a team splash photo
– Buying floaties and squirt guns
– Celebrating Connor’s birthday the day before we left Kobuleti by going on a long walk, going to dinner and playing games.
– Going on a free excursion (a gift from our guesthouse family) a boat cruise around sunset time.
– Visiting our squad mates in Batumi (the second largest city in Georgia, about 40 minutes from Kobuleti) and getting to sit in their air conditioned apartment.
– Treating ourselves to a nice dinner in Batumi as a team
– Taking the train back to Tbilisi instead of the bus
– Getting all my clothes washed professionally at a dry cleaner and them smelling so good.
– Finding a gelato place two blocks from our Air B and B and it only costing $1.50 for a medium cup!
Lows:
– I unintentionally booked an Air B&B in Tbilisi for two guests instead of 6 and had to pay an extra fee because of it.
– Moving downstairs in our guesthouse in Kobuleti and no longer having a bathroom in our room or air conditioning
– Picking up trash on the beach and finding a section of beach that was littered with drug paraphernalia and children playing in the water nearby.
– Accidentally breaking the brand new couch at the guesthouse by leading on the armrest too hard
– Accidentally leaving my backpacking pour over at our guesthouse in Kobuleti.
Bozos:
– Going to Kobuleti without booking a place to stay and not arriving till 10 pm
– Going on a hike for Connor’s birthday and end up in a tropical storm, soaking wet trying to find shelter. We ended up in a cafe drinking coffee waiting for the storm to pass or a taxi to arrive.
– Putting Tony’s on our popcorn and could not stop sneezing as we ate it (but that didn’t stop us from eating it).
– Walking out of our room on the first morning and the Dad staying in our guesthouse was walking around in his boxers forgetting we were there. The rest of the time he just walked around with no shirt on (at least he was wearing pants).
– Kaylin feeding the stray cats by our guest house and them trying to come into our space (Connor is highly allergic so we kept having to keep an eye on them; every once and a while they would get into the house and we would have to chase them out).
– The constant battle of figuring out the difference between a sea and an ocean
