Harapnuik Adventures

Please forgive my forgetfulness and I pray an English professor isn’t reading this, but I read something somewhere by somebody (3 strikes) the other day and it filled a spot in me.

God knows how hard it is to say goodbye to a loved one. He said goodbye to His Son when Jesus took on the form of a man and left His place in heaven.

Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross! Phil. 2:7-8

As we left our friends and family this summer, I know that God said a difficult goodbye as well. I don’t compare ours to God’s but once again, He knows how we feel.

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I walk in the coolness of the evening, the dampness creeping up my legs and the sun retreats behind the mountain. Another day has past and I am at wonder of the peace, coolness and freshness of life in the mountain village.

I find it’s interesting to be sitting in one place for days 9 now. The same bed, the same crackling crow alarm clock, the same coffee cup. To have some repose from moving one hotel room to another, to find a spot to rest and make our own for two weeks.

Rest. What is vacation but a change, a rest, a re focus. Yet, what is it in us that causes us to always be working? Dwayne wakes every morning at 6 to sit in front of his silver square of information – his to gather, his to impart. He takes calls from a learning institute in another country to counsel, encourage, advise. He plans for the term of teaching, writing, thinking. He downloads pictures and videos of our boys adventures of the day.

I turn to my stack of books to read and prepare for another year of learning. Finally, after 9 days I’m ready to take on the boxes of receipts and struggle to place them in the right creamy yellow files as they are matched to the bank statements on my own black box. Why not rest? Why don’t I wake to the crackling crow and roll over, to enter into the dream again. Instead I think I must rise and start a day that doesn’t even care if I meet it. There’s no rush to be somewhere, get something done, answer any calls, plan any errands. Instead, rest. Watch the news. Make a strong coffee. Take a walk. Watch your children as they sleep. Feel that same sun that left us last night begin it’s long walk across the brilliant blue field of sky.

“A change is as good as a rest”, but when we have the opportunity, I shall take both. It just takes a while to be ready to rest.

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The first week at winter park has been fun. The runs are long and some are quite smooth. Some of them are harder but they are still fun. Here are some pics.

That’s one of the biggest step up on the Mountain. I’m not sure how big it is. But It’s really fun.

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Here are some pics from Winter Park!!!!! We need this to do down the hill to go up the hill to go back down the hill. (try to figure that one out)

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Yesterday we drove 45 minutes to Angel Fire Resort to go Downhill biking. The first trail we did was a blue (I know, blame dad) It was pretty fun and had a few ladders a not that many jumps. There was only one real drop and it was only 4 feet. But there were quite a few jumps and most of them weren’t very good. But that’s ok. It’s our first day riding for more that a year. The black runs were pretty hard up at the top. Dad didn’t have very much fun (so he says) but they weren’t as bad a some runs at Fernie. To end the day, we found the perfect combination of runs and Caleb’s bike broke down.

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Yup, it’s my first weekend away. It’s both Vegas and Elna in one weekend. How do you think that will end? Shall I end up with a stripe of red or blue hair, a lighter wallet, or a iphone full of pictures that I can not share? All of the above? Na, all you who know Elna know it will be a calm and relaxing weekend.

It’s will be a short but very sweet time and I so appreciate the opportunity to spend time with one of the many people God has poured into my life as a gift. Ya’ll know I don’t gamble, and my closet is full so I don’t need to buy anything, so suspect only much laughter, some tears (I’ll have to say goodbye), some gossip (find out how all the loved ones in Lethbridge are faring), some encouragement (or butt kicking, depending how you take it) and much coffee/tea. Woohoo! What more can I say.

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Day 3 in Austin. We went to a museum and it was all about Texas. Texas, Texas, Texas: there is so many things  to learn about Texas, too much even.  WOW, my mind is filled with things about TEXAS. Oh well, it is cool stuff. We went to a Imax movie about heros of Texas and Wild Texas weather. It was really interesting and so was the rest of the building. Here’s a few pictures. We went home after that and then went in the outdoor pool      Yes I said the pool  WE WENT SWIMMING IN A OUTDOOR POOL IN JANUARY HAHA it was fun. The next day we went home and continued with are life in Abilene.

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As soon as we go to Austin, Dad bought a bike JUST like mine. It was the same except for the handlebars and pedals and of course the name on the side. I am jealous because he got his for cheaper. :’(

BUT MINE IS STILL BETTER!!!!!!!

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I was suppose to  write one thing about Austin and do a blog on it but I couldn’t think of the right one so I am just going to tell you all of them, but a short version.

We arrived in Austin at about 3:30 and dad earlier  found a bike that he wanted to get on the internet. We found the place and we bought it.  Here’s a picture

Specialized P2

After that we found the hotel (well we didn’t have to find it because it was a 28 story 4 star Hilton). Once we got there we unpacked and mom and dad went to get supper.

The next day dad had to go to a conference so we went biking. It wasn’t a good idea because it rained a day or 2 ago so it was muddy. We tried it anyway but we got our bikes muddy and we had to wash them off somehow. We went to a stream near by and washed them off there. Here’s a picture.  We went back to the hotel and dad was still in a conference but in the one before he used 50 Ipod touches so we had to recharge them. When they were done we had a little fun with them. Here’s a picture. We got lunch then dad needed us to help us set up for his next conference. I will tell you more tomorrow.

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We went to the museum to. It was mostly about the Alamo and that kinda stuff. But we got some cool pictures.

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