Summer update

Carrie had her last day with the preschoolers a couple of weeks ago, which means that both of us are now working the day camps!  Woohoo!  Carrie’s excited to be working with the bigger kids now and finally to have a lighter schedule.  We’ve been enjoying the day camps a lot and love building relationships with these kids (many have been coming every week so far).  We’ve also been able to enjoy some really beautiful weather which means we get to be outside with the kids almost all of the time.  It’s always good when kids can get outside; they don’t seem as crazy.  We’ve done kayaking camp, science camp, challenge course camp, and we just finished our drama camp.  So there’s a lot of variety which makes it impossible to be bored (not that we would be).  

We celebrated our 3 year anniversary with a kayak trip to a neighboring island where we camped over night and enjoyed some amazing scenery.  It's been so cool to see where God has led us in our marriage and we can't wait for the many more years to come. 

We loved having a Heidi and Tim (sister and brother-in-law) visit us for a week.  We got to show them some cool stuff and even got to do some fishing with them.  We (minus Luke with a bum knee) did a crazy hike up a 2,700 ft. up a mountain on the summer solstice.  Started at 9:00 pm, summited at 11:30 pm, back at the bottom at 1:00 am. Toughed it out through a lot of wind and fog. We hear it's a good view...on a clear day. 

Best...picnic...ever

It's really steep! The top is covered in fog..

This next week we will have no camp and we will go on a staff retreat at a small camp on another part of the island.  I will be leading the devotions for the summer staff and I think that will be a lot of fun.  Following that week Carrie and I are part of the staff that will be spending the week in Ouzinki which is a village on a different island to do camp for the kids there.

New wildlife we've seen in the last couple weeks:

• Grey Whales (we watched SO many whales swimming just about 50 yards off the shore in Pasagshak with Heidi and Tim. It was incredible!)
• Puffins
• Seals

Gray Whale spy hop. 

Puffin!

Wildflowers are finally blooming

Things you can pray for:

• Devotions during the staff retreat, that the staff will have open hearts and that God would lead me as I share
• Renewed energy every day
• More sunshine than rainy days
• Relief from allergies for Carrie