Some things don't make sense to me.

Well we are back in beautiful Michigan after our trip to Florida. This weekend here is supposed to bring lows down toward the zero mark. BRRRRR. Now as I am writing this Jared and Melisa are in a church van traveling 11 hours from Tampa to North Carolina for a youth group ski trip they are helping to lead. Now, why would anyone want to leave the warm climate of Florida to travel where it is cold enough to go snow sking? It makes more sense to me to find a nice lake in Florida and go water sking all weekend! Oh, well I guess I just don't understand young people anymore.

Cletus take the Reel

Youtube Parody

The last few months I have discovered Youtube. It is amazing what videos you can find there.Our friends the Castles recently told me about a guy who does parody songs. I looked him up on Youtube and found some pretty funny stuff he does.I thought I would put one of our favorites on the blog. The song is a parody of the country song "Jesus take the Wheel" by former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood. It is called "Cletus Take the Reel". Enjoy.

Time to go back home

Well our time with Jared and Melisa is coming to an end. We have had a nice time but we are looking forward to getting home and getting back to a normal schedule. Mike will probably start a new boilermaker job on Monday. It is one we have been praying for and will be 40 hours a week for a few months. We think it might be a little cooler when we get home tonight!ha

Saturday evening on the Gulf

Benita took this picture yesterday at Clearwater beach. It may be our last sunset as the weather has changed and it as been cooler and overcast all day. We can not complain though as we have had great weather every day we have been here.

Honey Moon Island

Well Benita found another favorite place down here today. We went to Honey Moon Island, about 10 miles from Jared and Melisa's. We saw lots of Osprey, several Falcons,an American Oyster Catcher, and various other birds. But above all of these Benita was most excited to see her first Armadillo! She got a close up picture of it as it was not bothered by our presence at all. This is a place we will go back to in the future. How did it get a name like Honey Moon Island? You will have to go to their web site to find out.

http://www.floridastateparks.org/honeymoonisland/

Beautiful Day in Clearwater

Left rainy Michigan this morning and arrived in Sunny Florida by 1 o'clock. For dinner went down to one of our favorite places to eat down on the beach. The Palm Pavilion is known for its grouper sandwiches. After our daily trip to Target we all came back home for a relaxing evening. (Except for Jared's playing drums in the video game called Rock Band.)I think he will stick with his day job as a teacher!

In Christ Alone - The Gettys

The Power of the Cross - The Gettys

Long Time no Writing! Tomorrow Benita and I leave balmy Michigan (62 degrees new record!) for balmier Florida (forcast in the 80's). We got a great deal on tickets (38 dollars round trip for each of us) and we will be staying a week. Looking forward to seeing Jared and Melisa as we will stay with them in their new home.Hope to post a few new pictures soon.