Day 1 - Saturday, June 6

Published June 7, 2026

My First Welcome to the daily ASP blog! I’ll post once each day about our experiences during the day.

We started at First United Methodist Church, Glen Ellyn at 8:00 am. It’s a bit like playing Tetris to get the vans packed up, but we were able to do so and depart by about 9:30. The drive to Covington, KY was the best kind; uneventful. I will say, though, that their choice of music, and mine are a bit different. I learned about a group called My Chemical Romance. It’s not my first choice, but then, my music was not my parents’ first choice either. It was a good trip down. The picture is from our lunch stop on the way down

We are spending the night in the basement youth room of Trinity Episcopal Church. Check out the photos of this place. It’s everything you would want for a youth room.

We had dinner at our favorite pizza place, and then crossed the Ohio River to spend a little time in Cincinnati. After a little ice cream, we’ll play some games and then it’s bed time. 

Tomorrow we head out to our assigned ASP center. 

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