Nebraska State Fair LLL Service

Yesterday the wind ensemble played for the LLL sponsored worship service at the Nebraska State fair. It was a nice day to have an outdoor service. Our school's president gave the sermon and the whole thing was broadcast on KNGN. Mike Nielson was there to do the radio broadcast stuff as he has been a big contributer to KNGN ever since its creation. (Edit: I guess he's currently the Interim Manager) He is also a family friend and as such I was glad to see him. I walked up behind him and gently placed my had on his shoulder. When he turned to see who it was he exclaimed something along the lines of, "Oh! I forgot about that!" with a surprised look on his face.

His daughter goes to UNL and showed up as well. She spent some time in China this last summer teaching English. Not only that she also was in the same area as Chris Strom and knew of the famed (well, amongst Chris' family and friends) Hello Kitty/Precious Moments door that Chris' land lord won't let him take down.

After the service when we had packed everything back up we had about an hour. I took the time to help move the radio station's equipment back to Nielson's car. He had his daughter take a picture of us and then the three of us explored the fair a bit. I found the 4-H rockets that I had wanted to look at. Some of those youngsters are far better than me at the hobby. On the way back to the bus he bought me some lunch -- expensive state fair food. $10 for two slices of pizza and a bottle of water. Ouch!

All in all it was a great day.