Canada trip #2 of the summer

So I leave for Canada on our countries birthday! seems kind of odd to leave the great USofA on the 4th of July but I guess if that is when a group wants to do a wilderness trip, and they really want me to be the leader of it, then I guess that is when you go! :)

The funny thing for me is this will be the third year in a row that I have not been in the US for the 4th of July! Which also means this will be the 3rd year in a row that I have not been home for my Birthday ... which happens to be July 8th for all of you out there that would like to send me presents, or cold hard cash, or just plain well wishes! :)

The process of being gone for over a week presents a new and different challenge now that I have a different job, and live in a different state! The days of frantically getting everything ready at the last minute because I have been stressing out, and working till all hours of the night getting the Gallery ready for me to be gone, and it to be on auto pilot while gone are over, and actually I am very thankful for that!! :) ... however the new area of trying to get everything ready for me to be gone, and getting everything ready to go up to Canada because that is part of my job now! and then try and figure out what gear I need to take with me and which box I actually packed it all in, and if it is unpacked or just where in the heck is all of it!?!? so well yes ... it is all a very fun, new and wild adventure for me! :)

I am excited!! ... because once I get everything loaded up, and I am headed on the road, and arrive at base camp in Kearney, Ontario, Canada ... I get to spend a week of adventure, challenge, laughter, crying, spiritual awaking, relaxation, clean air, relational bonding, God's creation and His creatures! and I get to do all of this in the woods of Algonquin, but even better with some of the best youth kids in the world! I love my "old" youth group kids from Saylorville !!!


Yep thats a picture of the gang on the way up to Canada! :)

I am super excited about the privilege, and great opportunity I have to spend yet another week with 10 of them, and to be able to in some small way impact there lives to live in such a way and lead others in such a way that honors God !! What an awesome responsibility and great privilege! If you think about it you can pray for us!! ...thank you! :)

So now that I have filled you in on my weekend and week to come ... I shall leave you now and will report back in a week or so with some pictures and tall tales of Moose and Black Bears, spiders and mosquito's, waterfalls and raging rapids, beautiful sunsets and misty sunrises! oh it is amazingly beautiful in Algonquin Provincial Park ... you should take an adventure there someday! and if your lucky I just might be your guide! :)


Cheers to all, and Happy Fourth of July!!