May long

So I realized that I am getting old. This May long weekend I happily spent with my best friend (Doug) and his girlfriend (Veronica) at his grandparents place out in Creston. I had an awesome time playing baseball, looking at antique cars, taste-testing chili in the chili cook-off, drinking a jug of Kokanee Gold on the patio with him and his grandma, watching the Oilers win game 2 of the series against Anaheim and to top it all off we spent an unusually large amount of time scooting around town on these things:

So much fun! And the looks that we got... Anyways, the reason I got onto this. Instead of being dismayed that I was missing all the action at the party spot at the typical campground this past weekend, I was more than happy to chill out with my best friend. In fact when he called me to suggest the itinerary for the weekend I lept at the oppurtunity and was relieved in a small sort of way that I didn't feel obligated to go out to the party spot for the weekend. Maybe it's just me, maybe it's something else. I really believe that God is fulfilling some of the desires of my heart that I don't have to be looking elsewhere to satisfy them.

P.S. Due to the Oilers amazing run in the playoffs and some other extraneous factors, there will be a return of the beard (at least in some sort)! Sooner than I expected but what can I say? It's addicting once you start.

The beard escapade

Ok, for those of you that have not seen me in quite some time, you may be a bit surprised at the following images. Needless to say I had a lot of fun with this and I think it might be something that I do every year. It all started when I went to Japan for a month on a mission trip with SFC. I thought since I was going to be traveling it would suck to always have to shave and since I was going to be in Japan it would be neat to have some facial hair as it is a bit rare over there. And it kind of reminded me of John the Baptist :) So, I didn't shave for about a 6 week period. When I came back home to Fernie, I liked the way it looked so much (plus lots of others told me that they liked it, and I'm a sucker for compliments) I decided to continue to grow it for a little while. Eventually it came time to get rid of it but I couldn't do it all at once so I decided to do it in stages. I think my personal favourite is the second stage (if the full beard is counted as the first stage). Anyways, here it is. For those of you that missed it this time around, this will probably be repeated next winter. Yay!

Stage 1


Stage 2


Stage 3


Stage 4