The Trip were everything went wrong.

Before I came home for Christmas break I spent some time in Alberta with my brother and a friend from Kaleo.  It was a hectic trip and I will not go into details, except to say that it did not go as planned but through the darkness we did see light.  

This is the cliff we climbed

Our fearless leader aka Phil Bietz

Look at Jon go!

Wild Play

Well on December eighth we had originally had plans to go snowboarding at Mt. Washington but due to an extreme lack of snow (you can't snowboard on a 12 cm base) we were forced to find an alternative out-trip.  Jim our leader came up with the idea of going to Wild Play which is a bungee zone about 45 minutes from Camp Qwanoes.  I know snowboarding would have been fun, but bungee jumping (something I've never done but have always wanted to do) was fricken amazing!  I think I'm addicted all I can think about now is doing it again and again, and then maybe some sky diving and then some more bungee jumping.  I went on two "elements" that Wild play had one was the bungee jump and the other was the King Swing which is a gigantic 140'' swing

The bridge that we jump from

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The Swing (Good looking guy beside me is Jon)

You wouldn't think it, but that water was COLD!  I guess it is December.

These photos were all taken by Kaleo's own Philip Karklins

9-12-08

Well we spent the last Bridge service of 2008 singing Christmas carols and reading the Christmas story.  Although once again there was no snow outside it definitely was feeling like Christmas.  I never realized before how much i like Carols, there so powerful, i feel we should sing them all year long and not just for one month a year.  There is no reason we can't be thankful for Jesus' birth every single day of the year.

We heard the testimony of Cobble Hill's own matt Rumley.  it was really nice to be able to hear from someone from Cobble Hill who had just only known for a month or two.  

I have one more paper to write and then I am done for this semester, although I do have some work to do over the break.  My break begins on the 12 but I'm stopping in Alberta with a friend and my brother to do some snowboarding and ice climbing for a couple days.  I will hopefully be back in the 'Peg on the 18th and then taking off again on the 4th of January.  

Can't wait for snow, see yah soon Winnipeg.

Guys Night

Monday and Tuesday the guys here at Kaleo had an all guys trip. We travelled two hours south, and then hiked an hour through the woods to Mystic Beach which is on the Southern tip of Vancouver Island. This trip was a blast, probably one of my favorites so far. It was full of doing dumb guy things, climbing up streams (getting very wet while doing so), playing around in caves trying to build a Dam large enough to block the water, smokies around a fire, and showering in wateralls

What a view, if you swam long enough you would eventually get to Washington State


Some campsite, trees are nice, but oceans better.
This is the waterfall a few of us showered in, suprisingly it wasn't that cold

It is Now December!

Oh my goodness where has November gone, although it does seem like a lifetime ago that I was strolling into this place not knowing who anyone was.  Nevertheless December is now here and i have very much been enjoying myself out here.

This past sunday I was asked to play bass for the Sunday morning worship.  If you didn't know, Bass is not really an instrument I play!  In which case I sort of had to combine what I knew about guitar and the small amount of pointers given to me on how to play bass and play through a worship set.  In the end it went fine, in fact I really enjoyed playing bass, (hey mom how do you feel about adding another guitar to my collection?)  

The bridge on sunday evening went well, One of our youth (Nick Benson) at Cobble Hill gave the sermon.  I believe he is in grade ten which is mind blowing to think about because he did an amazing job, he was funny and witty but he also drove home his point very well.

12-02-08

Ladysmith Festival of Lights

   This past thursday a group of us went to the nearby town of Ladysmith for their annual festival of lights.  It was a great kick off to the holiday season full of christmas carols, lights, and fireworks.  The only thing that made it seem fake to me was the lack of white stuff (snow).  Everything was screaming CHristmas but without snow I just felt like everything was not very authentic.  Oh well, I'm sure I'll get enough snow when I go home for the Holidays.