So now is my third post here, I believe. I'm sitting here viewing some youtube videos on Pachebel's canon (love that song) and then reading some posts on other blogs I enjoy. Thought I might say something myself on my own.

Last week (Thurs-Sunday) I went with 5 other men from my church to the Boundary Waters. It was my 5th trip up there this year, and maybe the most memorable. What a great time of being with men, getting to know each other better, and enjoying the great outdoors. We went in at Ham lake (yeah, where the fire was this year) and began our travel to Long Island Lake. I was blessed by Jim, who let me use his kayak for the trip. It rained most of the way there, and rained several inches that afternoon and evening. I don't know exactly how much, but my best guess would be about 6 inches that afternoon. It was a great start to the trip - huddled under a tarp drinking coffee and eating steaks not only made it possible to have great stories later, but also to only get better from there!

We had some great discussions on the biblical basis for church membership, family integrated church, and being good fathers and husbands. We also told lots of stories about wilderness adventures. This may have been the most "spiritually oriented" trip I've been on as well - we set aside significant time for morning and evening devotions, and had good conversations out of those.

So, here is one picture of our time up there - the group that went. Sorry, the photos not that great - and I don't have Picasa loaded on this computer to make it better. I'd better add another picture to show you some of our fun: the one on the left is now of Chris in search of fish on Friday evening.

Well, enough for now. I'll have to post again sometime before the year is out!