One Foot of Snow.

Well I kept meaning to update this silly blog, but life it seems had other plans.
Now I've got a bit of a breather, so how about I tell you what I've been up to?

Tim and I took a quick trip to Kamloops for Andrew's Birthday and for some good ol' quality family time. It was super fun, but we missed his surprise party.
Right away when we got back... and I mean within a few hours of our return, we jumped right into hosting the Prairie Aviation Survival week. Sunday was all training for them (and Tim, who helped teach part of it), and prepping their food (what little they got) for me. Then on Monday we headed out. We hiked them out for about 2 hours to an "unknown" location. Next we dropped them off in their 3 or 4 man teams at their "crash site". Then we (Tim, myself, and 2 leaders from Prairie) tromped over to the leaders camp and made ourselves at home. The funnest part of the first day was that we had hiked all our gear out the night before - all 70lbs of it... each. Let me back up a bit.
The location we had hiked out to was actually only about 15 minutes from camp. We just took them in in a round-about fashion. Also, we as leaders did not eat the same as the students. While they had barely enough food for 4 people for 1 day, let alone a whole 5 days, we had leftovers every meal. So we had decided that we wanted to hike our heavy packs in the short way. So we did. And then we convinced them that the little packs we carried in on Monday, containing pretty much only water, was all that we had to survive on.
Anyways. We spent the week eating, sitting by the fire, playing cards, eating, checking up on the students, sitting by the fire, eating. It was great.
It ended up being a fairly easy week for the students because it was fairly warm and sunny out. Each group built a lean-to with pine bows and ended up being warmer then we were in our tents.
But moving on.

Immediately following Prairie, the first of 2 Wycliffe Adventure Race's started. I've talked about the Adventure Race's before, in this blog and in my newsletter, so I won't say much about it this time. It was a super good weekend. The weather was amazing and the teams did fantastic. We've got the second Race this weekend.

After the Adventure Race Tim and I had 3 days off. We had worked for 9 days straight, so this was a welcome treat. Today is the third of those 3 days. They have been mostly restful days, though today was not as good, as Tim and I both have symptoms of Strep Throat. If you could be praying for us that would be awesome. This weekend would be a bad one for us to both be sick.

Well that's about as good an update as I can muster right now. My fingers are cramping up from typing so much. :P Hahah...



PS. Jill, we've been pounding your "miracle tea". We both actually like it quite a bit.