Day 10 & 11– July 9 &10, 2005:A day at the Beach, A day of Rest

The plan today was to rent a car with the Ausies and cruise to the beach and surf and play. Enterprise rental had other ideas though as their cars weren’t available. So they took the shuttle to Wal-Mart and we ended up hitching a ride with Kimberly (from Wisconsin) to Queens Bath beach. We all lathered up with sunscreen and played for a few hours at this awesome beach that is protected from the waves by lava rock. There were a few little fish in there too. It was basically a swimming pool with a sand bottom. I didn’t get a chance to surf though. I met a girl their from YWAM who is a civil engineer. She works with a program that designs clean water projects for different villages or towns in 3^rd world countries. It sounded pretty cool to me.

Of course half way through the beach activities Jonny gouged a bit out of his toe. That boy seems to have a bit too much testosterone at this point. Two injuries this week! So, pray for safety and healing for him if you can.

After the beach we had a mellow afternoon at home and went out to dinner with an anniversary gift from Ruth’s parents. An Ausie girl (Elizabeth) watched the sunburned kids for us. Then we hung out with more Ausie and New Zealanders for mud pie at Bubba Gump restaurant. It was Rodney’s (from NZ, not my brother) 40^th birthday. Lots of fun. It was nice to have a day off.

Sunday we went to a church that was a lot like our home church. It is called Solid Rock. They were rockin’ out. Believe it or not, I think the music was louder than at The Movement (home church). We all took big naps and had a fairly mellow day. Now we can’t wait to start up another week!