Sunday, April 16, 2006
He is risen
What a great day today. I'm in Queenstown right now, an awesome city. It's Easter for me, and a very timely one at that. I've longed for this day to come, to go to church and worship our risen Lord. It makes me sad in a strong way to not be with my family right now, but I'm still joyed that I'm able to be here with these two wonderful girls traveling around for a few weeks. When I awoke this morning this came to mind, "Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39). How amazing to be able to say this with confidence that on this very day death was conquered so that we now fight from victory and no longer for victory.
It's been a crazy vacation so far. Thursday we drove into Wanaka, it reminds me a lot of Breckenridge, and right as we were crossing the street from the car Seth and David yelled at me. We ended up spending the day with them. We cooked dinner that night together- stir fry. Hollie mistakenly put dish soap in it thinking it was cooking oil... we still ate it, just a little bubbly. We considered it our cleansing for Easter. We ran to a movie that night with the boys in this cozy couch theatre that served hot cookied at intermission. When we got back I wasn't tired so I decided to go on a walk through the town. I was laying on the dock overlooking Lake Wanaka looking at the full moon and stars when these 2 guys came down the dock. We started talking and they were really fun and I ended up going to this club right down the street with them where one of them was singing for the night. It was so fun and Eva, holls and I ended up running into them in Arrowtown the next day and went to see him play that night, it was so fun.
We went rock climbing while we were in Wanaka- it was awesome. Hollie and I ended up doing something inbetween climbing the rocks and bush wacking to get to the next. We climbed really high and past my legs and hands bleeding, it was awesome, we laughed the whole time.
Now we're in Queenstown and past not seeing the queen yet we're having a great time (laugh now). We went up the gandala yesterday and at the top you can ride the luge. Hollie and I got 5 rides and it was AWESOME. Alan, watch out when you get here because you're going down. My luge (or whatever you call the contraption) was on it's side on multiple occassions making me totally believe I was about to bust, we laughed histarically.
So now it's Easter and we're enjoying a quiet afternoon. We've made trip videos, they're hilarious. We've slept in the car the past 2 nights and it's really fun. We have story time every night before bed, basically they ask me to tell a story and I do.... It's been really cool and different all at the same time to be with these two girls and I cherish how much we've been able to share together. It's a great way to learn patience to spend literally all the time with 3 people that are very much opposites in a lot of ways, but yet I'm finding how much we have in common, especially Hollie and I.
Hollie and I are driving back to Wanaka tomorrow to let her skydive and Eva is waiting on Clara, our other tripmate, to get to Queenstown by bus tomorrow. Then we're off to Milford Sound where I've heard my mouth will remain open it's so beautiful. We'll see, it's hard to picture something more beautiful that all the stuff I've already seen. Get excited about pictures, they'll blow you away.
It's been a crazy vacation so far. Thursday we drove into Wanaka, it reminds me a lot of Breckenridge, and right as we were crossing the street from the car Seth and David yelled at me. We ended up spending the day with them. We cooked dinner that night together- stir fry. Hollie mistakenly put dish soap in it thinking it was cooking oil... we still ate it, just a little bubbly. We considered it our cleansing for Easter. We ran to a movie that night with the boys in this cozy couch theatre that served hot cookied at intermission. When we got back I wasn't tired so I decided to go on a walk through the town. I was laying on the dock overlooking Lake Wanaka looking at the full moon and stars when these 2 guys came down the dock. We started talking and they were really fun and I ended up going to this club right down the street with them where one of them was singing for the night. It was so fun and Eva, holls and I ended up running into them in Arrowtown the next day and went to see him play that night, it was so fun.
We went rock climbing while we were in Wanaka- it was awesome. Hollie and I ended up doing something inbetween climbing the rocks and bush wacking to get to the next. We climbed really high and past my legs and hands bleeding, it was awesome, we laughed the whole time.
Now we're in Queenstown and past not seeing the queen yet we're having a great time (laugh now). We went up the gandala yesterday and at the top you can ride the luge. Hollie and I got 5 rides and it was AWESOME. Alan, watch out when you get here because you're going down. My luge (or whatever you call the contraption) was on it's side on multiple occassions making me totally believe I was about to bust, we laughed histarically.
So now it's Easter and we're enjoying a quiet afternoon. We've made trip videos, they're hilarious. We've slept in the car the past 2 nights and it's really fun. We have story time every night before bed, basically they ask me to tell a story and I do.... It's been really cool and different all at the same time to be with these two girls and I cherish how much we've been able to share together. It's a great way to learn patience to spend literally all the time with 3 people that are very much opposites in a lot of ways, but yet I'm finding how much we have in common, especially Hollie and I.
Hollie and I are driving back to Wanaka tomorrow to let her skydive and Eva is waiting on Clara, our other tripmate, to get to Queenstown by bus tomorrow. Then we're off to Milford Sound where I've heard my mouth will remain open it's so beautiful. We'll see, it's hard to picture something more beautiful that all the stuff I've already seen. Get excited about pictures, they'll blow you away.
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I'll just have to start with this quote: "We ended up spending the day with them. We cooked dinner that night together- stir fry. Hollie mistakenly put dish soap in it thinking it was cooking oil... we still ate it, just a little bubbly. We considered it our cleansing for Easter." Are you kidding me???? It tasted a "little bubbly"???? Holy moley -- you guys are nuts! Remind me to be careful if you ever cook for me.... if whatever you prepare tastes a "little bubbly," I'll know what happened... Oh dear....
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