Home Sweet Home

Wow! What a vacation! Well, the first and foremost amazing and wonderfully gratifying and overwhelming thing that happened was that my very dear travelling companion and friend made a CD for me. Each day was chock full of adventures, which I can no more recount than can a librarian recount all the books he/she has read. Highlights, we shared a pot of tea eveyday at a quaint little coffeeshop where we met and conversed with a local patron who was there every time we were. This nice man pointed us in the direction of a great hiking spot, so we spontaneously went for a long and exhausting hike at his recommendation. (It was more than worth every branch we tripped on and leaf we got in our hair.) To recover from that long and exhausting hike in the mountains, we went paddleboating at the park. One day, we found a great tidepool at the beach, after doing some death-defying rock climbing to get there. Despite the clouds and wind, we couldn't resist a dip in the motel pool. (After all, we DID pay for it!) Being people alive on the 4th of July, of course we saw a fireworks show or 5. We had a great view of several shows all along the coast.
One very prevalent theme of our little vacation was prayer and Bible reading. My friend and I prayed separately and we prayed together, we read the Bible, we read a book on prayer, and we wrote in our journals. And photos . . . we took hundreds of photos. We had an amazing vacation, and thank God for His kindness in allowing it.