Not Just Luck

So last weekend Melinda was driving David home and Esther, Drew and I were going to go along to get away from camp and go out for supper. Drew and I were both sick with a head throat cold but still really wanted to go. We were debating all afternoon and couldn’t make up our minds, you would have thought it was a life altering decision that we were making with the way we went on. So in the end we decided to stay back and be responsible since we had to work the next day and wouldn’t have gotten home until later. Also I got into a fight with Esther right before they left and thus didn’t really feel like being stuck in a car the whole night (don’t worry were good now). Then at around nine that night we got a call from Melinda’s mom saying that there had been a car accident. They were driving and there was a truck in the ditch and a car in front of them, the car started to slow down so Melinda did as well. Then they hit black ice. Their car swung around and hit the car in front of them. Everyone was in some sense of the word fine, David got a small scratch on his eye, and Melinda and Esther both got pretty bad whiplash. The thing about the crash was that where no one had been sitting was the place with the most damage. Had we not been sick we would have gone. Had I not got into a fight with Esther I would have gone. David sat behind Esther even though there was less leg room because he knew that Melinda would do more of the talking. Think about all this for a second.....Now you can tell yourself that it was all a coincidence or just luck but I believe in a God who is bigger than all of that. And hey I’d much rather put my life in the hands of a guy who’s willing to die for me than in chance, fate or a coincidence.

Kendra the Human Bulldozer

Alrighty, so we got back from our winter trip safe and sound, no worries I didn’t freeze to death. We drove eight hours to a place called Bruce Mines where Heidi has a cabin on Skookim Lake. We stayed at her house the first night and then drove to the lake in the morning. Then we had to do a two km snowshoe hike with all our gear on our backs to get to the cabin across the lake, whose ice wasn’t fully icy but kind of slushy....don’t worry we were checking the depth of the ice and such as we went along. Then once we got there we started shoveling snow for our quinzhee but by the time the snow had set and we could shovel it out, it was after supper so we had to use our headlamps to see. Once I was done shoveling out my quinzhee I went to go see if the boys needed help with theirs. They wanted me to poke a stick into the side to see how thick the wall was but as I was doing that I put a slight amount of weight onto the wall and fell through. Yaaaaa so Drew and John were shoveling out the inside and when I came barreling in we had a moment of shock and then after a minute they guys started laughing (probably so they wouldn’t cry...) it took me a while longer to start laughing but it was all good we fixed the hole, they just had to wait longer to sleep in it because they had to let it set again. The next day we went on a hike up a hill side and looked out over the frozen lake, it was beautiful!
Since then we have just been having classes and facilitating for groups that are in. We have also had two day trips since our winter trip one was curling which I loved and we are hoping to head back there later on this year, and the other was ice climbing which was sweet! I tried climbing with only one axe and I was so much better at it than with two! I think it’s because I had less to focus on and actually made sure that my feet were placed well.
For those of you that don’t know I am planning an ice climbing trip and we are leaving in a week on the 25^th. So I have been super busy with all the planning and such but am looking forward to actually going. We will be in the Adirondacks in NY, where there are tons of climbing sights. We will be staying in a hut that is heated by a wood stove and there is no electricity. It’s going to be a blast!