Daybreak Point Bible Camp

On this beautiful Sunday afternoon, I'm finally getting around to posting another blog. Well, it's not actually that sunny today and I actually thought I was going to get wet driving with the top off today, but So far it has not rained and my car is still dry.

Daybreak Point Bible Camp, located on the beautiful Anvil Island, was a lot of fun.
HERE and HERE (Google Satellite Image). It turned out that there weren't very many people my age there, so I mostly hung around with the younger 'kids' playing sports and such. I also went out with Andy.

I got to the marina at 9:00 and we had to take the water taxi to the island. About a 20 minute boat ride there and I got my cabin right on the ocean.

My cabin is the one on the right, a little lower down. The other is a sauna I believe. Below is basically the view I had from my cabin. Not bad, huh?
Here's a bunch of the guys I played with for the two days.

Here's Felix. He was one of the first ones I met, before we got on the boat even. He was a nice guy. He played basketball and hackey sack with us. He also tried to teach me some Spanish pick-up lines...but I forgot them all already. Too bad.

Andy has a license for prawn fishing. He had set out some traps and we went out and emptied them. There were about 2 foot swells on the water and having the boat stopped for 15mins - 1/2 hour to pull up traps, empty them, fix them, and re-bait them got a little much for me after the fourth trap line and I had to get rid of my taco salad from lunch over the side of the boat. After that I felt much better.

We didn't have a very large catch - about 40-50 prawn in about 10 traps - some had none in them.

After a game of soccer...

and some dinner...

and chapel...

We had a fire and we cooked marshmallows and prawn over the fire.

After the fire we played ball hockey in the gym for about an hour and then we had to be in bed and the lights went out at 11:00. They litterally went out at 11:00 because that's when they shut off the generator for the camp.
Sunday morning we had chapel again. The theme for the weekend was about friends. Choosing them wisely and how to be a good friend. We 'interviewed' the person beside us and then we were given the responsibility to pray for that person.

We played some frisbee, had lunch and then Brant and I went for a quick dip. Oh boy was that cold!

We played some more frisbee, caught some crabs and an eel, and packed up and then we took the taxi back to the mainland at 4:00pm.

9 Two are better than one,
Because they have a good reward for their labor.
10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.
But woe to him who is alone when he falls,
For he has no one to help him up.
Ecclesiastes 4:9,10 (Bible Gateway)

24 A man who has friends must himself be friendly,[a]
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24 (Bible Gateway)

Pictures work now!!

Well, most of them do anyway. I noticed that the ones that worked showed the link in the bottom of the Internet Explorer and the ones that didn't work didn't show it. So, I did a little HTML fiddling and figured out the problem and now I'm just typing in some HTML for all the pictures and they should all work soon. I did a bunch of them tonight and more another night!! Now people can actually view the pictures in a size that shows something. Well, good night for now. I'll post some pics from my weekend soon hopefully. I had a good time there - it's a beautiful camp!

Cabin at William's Lake

Well, I just realized that when people post comments I have to "publish" or "reject" them. I still haven't figured out how to make all the pictures work, but I'll just put them on here anyway and hopefully they all of a sudden work :)

Last weekend the Lynden youth group went up to a cabin at William's Lake. We had a lot of fun there. We did some singing inside by the fire (with the spiders :))

...and playing games...

and we had a fire outside too, even though it was raining (yes, that's rain, not snow - it's just the flash).

The next morning I got up early when Brian left for Silver Lake (I can't sleep after waking up usually). They got in an accident on the way up there, but thankfully no one got hurt! Thank you God!

I played with my camera taking pictures on different settings. Here's a picture of the jungle there:

and a cool picture of a flower with rain drops on it:

I drained the battery, so I didn't take many pictures for the rest of the day. A bunch of us went to Silver Lake and played ultimate frisbee and had lunch there. On the way back I took some pics of a bunch of old cars that are for sale at some farm by my house:

They all seem to have motors in them but the interior is gone. One of them had a price of $4000 on it. The others I don't know. Anyone want one? I can help you ship it if you want :)

When I got back, I looked at my car...it was kinda dirty:

When I washed it, there was mud running down the driveway.

I bought a ticket the other day so that I can fly home for the long weekend (plus a few days before and after). That will be great to see my family again :) This weekend I'm going to a camp for a couple days (www.anvilisland.ca) - that should be fun.

(Google Satelite image of the camp: HERE)

More pics.

Well, I've got a few more pics to post. I haven't figured out yet why some of them I can click on and others I can't...but one of these days I will and then hopefully I can fix it.

Here's a pic at Kyle's house.

They were practicing some songs and I just came to hang out. I picked up the keyboard for a few minutes, but that was short lived because I couldn't hear it and I didn't know the songs they were playing. I recorded some of the songs on my camera though so I can learn them hopefully. I didn't fall asleep this time. On the way back from Kyle's Hunter left his cell phone on the back of his car and it didn't fare so well. We found it smashed/driven over a little ways down the road when we went back to look for it.

Here's a couple pics of my red miata and Hunter's white one. He decided after about 5 minutes in mine that he wanted to get one...so we went down to Seattle a couple weeks later to look at one and we brought it back. We could almost put one in the back of his dad's truck! You might notice the new wheels on my miata. Everyone thinks they make the car look much better - I'd have to agree. Now all I have to do is get that soft top installed...after I get the few parts I need for it shipped out here.

Long weekend...

Well, I was away this weekend for a couple days. Friday night we had a bonfire on the sand bar at the river. Darin played guitar and some of the guys were singing. We sat and talked and had a good time. A bunch of the guys stayed there for the night and we slept in the bed of the trucks. We went to bed at about 4. Here are a few pictures from the night.


Here's a picture that we all thought was really amazing.

We all thought that the 'smoke' in the picture looked like a cross with a body on it. This was especially amazing because this was the night of Good Friday. Everyone wanted a copy of the picture, so there's a bigger version of the picture at the end of this post. Click the little picture at the end and it will give you the full 6MP picture.

Here's a picture I thought was really cool of Brian and Kayla at the fire. I turned off the flash and the light is just from the fire. For you, Brian and Kayla, there's a full size image of it at the end of this post as well...just click it and you will get the big picture.

Well, that was about time that my camera battery died and I left my charger at home, so I was out of battery for the rest of the weekend, which really sucked. I have to buy another battery for my camera.

On Saturday morning Darin, Kenner, Kyle and I went to breakfast and then I helped Darin put his main oil seal back in his Probe. After dinner we went to Kyle's house and I fell asleep to Chase on the drums, Kyle on his electric, and Darin on his acoustic...I must have been really tired, because they definitely weren't playing quiet. I guess 3 hours of sleep will do that to you though, huh?

I had a 'splendid' :) weekend.

Here's the full size pictures. Just click them and I think you'll get the full size pictures.

At Keri & Wade's, Camarigg's, Shifter boot

Since my camera is new, I'm sure you'll see lots of pictures for a while. I took some pictures Saturday night and on Sunday when I was various places. Saturday nights we go play games at Keri and Wade's house. It's always fun times. Usually some of the guys bring their guitars and play for a while...couple people might sing...and lately we've played a game called 'signs'. It's G.T.'s (good times)

Darin, Kenner, Angela, Tim-bob
Aimee & Hunter, Brian & Kayla

Darin, Justin, Cassie, Mike, Allison

Here's Darin. He's a funny guy. He plays guitar sometimes.

On Sunday I went to Camarigg's for lunch because there was no one at my house. Beth's father passed away on Monday and they went to the funeral and were away for a few days. The kids stayed with friends while they were away and I worked and stayed home and babysat the fish.

Here's Andrea and Alex at Camarigg'sWe went for a quick walk before church. Here's another one of my birthday presents. My brother Kevin made it.

Recipe for a awesome leather shifter boot:

1) Get an old leather clothing article (jacket, skirt, pants :O ) from second hand store...or your closet.

2) Take your old shifter boot off your car and take it apart at the seams.

3) Use your taken apart shifter boot as a pattern for your new one.

4) Cut it out and sew it together. Colour matched thread can really look cool.

Kevin's got skills.