Miss Me?

Good Morning! I'm drinking Tim Horton's coffee from my living room. It's the end of a 3 week vacation for Ken and I this morning. Since he's still sleeping we'll say he's enjoying the very end of his vacation!

We went close to home: Rowan's Ravine Provincial Park on Last Mountain Lake. It's only an hour away. Good thing, too, since I apparently brought the rain home from Seattle. We came home and did a few home projects in between because it was POURING!

But, it was the perfect weekend at the lake. Friday we went to the beach for the afternoon and were the only ones on it! That night we watched a gorgeous sunset from a couple of craggy rocks down a little bank on the shore of the lake. Again, all alone. It was like we reserved the entire park, never mind just a campsite.

Of course the rest of our camping neighbourhood finally came rolling in on Saturday. For the past three weeks we had been wondering if the Rapture happened while we were on vacation!

And the weather this weekend was gorgeous. Not too hot, not too cold. It was like LA only with breathable air.

We finally had a campfire, were able to BBQ, and we enjoyed the summer solstace. I mean, the sun was up at 4 and I could still read outside at 11:00 p.m. What a perfect day--it just kept going and going and going...

A big thank you to Donovan and Bonnie Carroll of Soul's Harbour for generously offering their fifth wheel to us so we could have a vacation. We were having lunch with them one day and Donovan asked, "What do you guys do for holidays?" I replied, "Donovan, did you take vacation with your family last year?" Well, it turned out neither of us had so the Directors of both Missions are having some much needed rest and fun this summer at Rowan's Ravine Provincial Park!

On one of our trips home I called our very awesome accountant and she said, "Let me get this straight. You need the 9-month financial reports because you're budgeting at the beach? You know something? The beach even made budgeting fun!

Please don't forget the Mission this summer when YOU go on vacation. The poor do not get a holiday and our team works 365 days a year to provide life changing programs and services to needy men, women and children. And I tip my hat to them for the amazing job they did while we were away!