bye St Kits. hello Windsor

Jenny and I have finished up in St Kits and have moved on. We completed our premarital counseling with the Woodwards, and we got LOTS of running around done. I got to eat at my favorite restaurant in St Catharines, Sahla Thai, for my birthday. And, we got our wedding bands tattooed on us!! Sweet!

Early wednesday morning, Pastor Geo dropped us off at the bus terminal and we cruised'er the 390KM to Windsor. Jenny's Dad picked us up and we started doing some running around. That evening, some of Jenny's family/friends had a potluck for us. Thursday, we did more running around and met with some people who Jenny wanted to see while here. Yesterday, Jenny and her Dad flew from London to Saskatchewan to attend Jessica's wedding. She will be back here monday morning. This is actually the first day I haven't seen Jenny since Dec 28th/07. Thats crazy.

So, I am housesitting (and cat-sitting) for the weekend. I have lots of research to do, and emails to write, and people to call, and tennis to watch, and sermons to listen to! 

And only 3 days to go before Vegas!!

I leave you with a good quote:

There is a strong drift toward the hard theological left. Some emergent types [want] to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a prize fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up. I fear some are becoming more cultural than Christian, and without a big Jesus who has authority and hates sin as revealed in the Bible, we will have less and less Christians, and more and more confused, spiritually self-righteous blogger critics of Christianity.

—Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church

St Catharines

Mama Deane dropped us off at the Newport News airport on friday, but, we were running a wee bit late and missed our plane. We caught another one 2 hous later, but were delayed an hour and a half in Philadelphia, which meant we were gonna miss our shuttle from Buffalo --> St Kits. We booked another shuttle and finally got on our plane. Then, we were delayed on the runway for an hour, meaning we would miss our rescheduled shuttle. Finally we took off and a half hour into our flight, we smelt smoke in the cabin! The cabin told us not to worry about it and since we were ONLY an hour away from Buffalo we would go on. I see?! We made it, but, once again, missed our shuttle so we had to take a later one. T'was all good though. We made it back to St Catharines, where the Woodwards have graciously offered to provide accomodations for us and take us through premarital counseling.
So, we are back in St Kits. Saturday, we did some counseling, then some running around, and then we went to Hamilton to attend an under-the-tent meeting. Yesterday (my 31st birthday) we went o a couple services at NCC where Steve McVey was speaking. Wow, never mind. We broke up the services with visiting Peter & Julie Karanfilis, booking an appointment to get our get our wedding bands tattooed, and a supper at Sahla Thai. Last night we hung out with Sheri Smith. Today we do LOTS of premarital counseling, and at 6pm we should be getting tattoed!!

a SAHLA THAI experience

Yesterday was a good day. Not that productive, in a ministry sense, but a great day nonetheless.
Early, I took Jenny to Niagara Falls (with Heymans having let us borrow his car, again!) to have her one remaining stitch removed. She is up and around now, and starting to feel much better. After that we wanted to get some pictures at the Falls but it was very overcast and kinda chilly. We made the best of it and returned to St Catharines after getting some All-U-Can-Eat Breakfast Buffet for $7.99! Sweet.

In the evening, as sort of a birthday meal, kinda, Jenny and I went to my (and hopefully her) favorite restaurant in St Catharines...........SAHLA THAI. It is the only place I've been where I can get food that is spicy enough. Obviously, it is a Thai restaurant, and the food is kinda exotic. It is soo good though. I will miss Sahla Thai :(

Later today, we head to Hamilton(HCC) where Jenny was the children's pastor for the better part of a year. Being in MIA since her cyst took over, we'll go back today to teach the kids her heresy one more time. It should be sweet. Tomorrow and monday are gonna be sweet too, but we'll cover that next week.