Saturday, September 20, 2008

We Are Home

Jeff and I arrived home this afternoon. The retreat was very good and we met a lot of nice people along the way. Yesterday we spent the afternoon walking around the island. We spent time in several cemetaries and saw the governor's summer mansion. There was a beautiful golf course too. We bought a few souveniers and fudge of course. Last night we took the horse and buggy taxi to the Little Stone Church by the Grand Hotel. We were to have a communion service there and then ride back to our resort by horse taxi again. Unfortunately, after the parson left the church open for us, a caretaker noted it was open and locked everything up. We couldn't get in. So we all walked back to the resort, a good long walk, back to the resort. We had our service this morning in our conference room which worked out ok. I was really looking forward to the church though. We were back on the ferry at noon and drove home 3.5hours. It is nice to be home. Take a look at the size of the pumpkin on the trailer I saw at a gas station! Here are a few pictures of our time there...check out the family photo album for more!



The kids did great. Mary is on her trip with the show choir until tomorrow around 5 pm. She had everything ready to go last night. I hope she is having a great time and learning a lot. (She will!) Matthew was glad to see us and he cut the grass really nice this afternoon. It is good to be back with our kids. Sarah is fine and busy at college. We hope to get down to see her next weekend and take her for a wanted McDonald's quarter pounder. She turns 19 on Tuesday, her first birthday on her own. Is it harder for her or for me???

Tomorrow we have a pastor from Grand Rapids, Pastor Masih, to preach and teach about spreading God's word to the unbelievers, namely muslims. He came last year and was awesome. We look forward to another inspiring message. Of course we bowl tomorrow. It is a bye week for us. We have to bowl our best, at least our average.

Guess that is all. Have a wonderful Sunday.

Grace