River Camping Trip

Just a quick update. We had an incredible time out at Camp which is 12 miles up river. The kids were awesome. We had 25 kids and boy did we have a blast. It was an impromptu camp. What I mean by that is that we were just planning on just going up there and getting the land prepared for their future camp. But when we went up to the land on Saturday, they instead decided that we could get the camp ready and run a camp for kids. So, we threw together a camp. Tim and I provided the programing and Jim ran the chain saw and kept away the grizzlies with the rifle. (No, we didn't see any bears, but Jim did have a rifle.)

We went up Monday afternoon. We built an outhouse and got the place ready. Jim even carved out some benches. That guy is pretty handy with a chain-saw. The kids came in on the boats at about 8 pm. Man, were they excited. We had an awesome. I will put a couple pics up now and they tell a pretty good story. I will update this when I get back to Anchorage and have a little time to reflect. We are very tired. I think in the two nights out there, we got a total of 7 hours sleep. Last night we went to bed about 12:30 and I have to say it was the only time I have ever gone to sleep where I could have used sunglasses :-)

Some of the pictures are of the kids swimming. It was no more than 50 degrees out and the water was extremely cold. The kids begged to let us swim. We just had to monitor how long they were in. There's that thing called hypothermia, you know.

We are leaving tomorrow morning at 11:30 and we get home sometime Friday afternoon. This has been truly a great trip. There is much to share when we get back. We feel that we must maintain a strong link with Marian and her people up here. Be praying about what that will look like in the future.