Random

We have now finished our busy season! We have no more work crews until February 2009. So now life settles into a routine for us... work. Mike's work is maintenance and repair on the camp and Megin helps with the accounting and is currently working on some financial reports. So there really isn't anything interesting to write about... which is why we are going to tell random stories that have happened throughout our time here.

~ One day, we were watching a movie when Mia decided to crawl under the bed (the bed that we were lounging on). All of the sudden, she starts barking. Not knowing why she was barking, I look under the bed and see a centipeed not too far from our feet. *In case you don't know, centipeeds can be deadly. If you get bit you have to get taken to the hospital for a shot. We've been told that the bite itself doesn't hurt that much but what it does to your body is very painful, so painful that you'll wish you were dead! (Please note that we have never been bitten so we wouldn't know fact from fiction but some very reliable sources have shared this information with us.)* Mia had barked at the centipeed and did something to stun it because usually centipeeds are very fast but this thing didn't move at all. So we quickly went into action. We found a heavy pan, moved the bed, and Mike proceeded to beat the centipeed to death (at this point it tried to move but it was too late)! Mia saved us from the centipeed (actually I'm sure God did but He used Mia to do it)! Praise the Lord!

~ When Megin's Mom was here, we had taken Mia out to swim in the ocean. We spent a few hours looking for shells, fishing, and swimming. At one point, Mia spotted an island that is approximately four miles away and start trying to swim to it. It was pretty funny! But the next day Mike talked to some fishermen who had been fishing near us while we were swimming. They told him that some manatees had been swimming in a semi-circle around us while we had all been in the water.

~ We went to Coffin Island with a couple of the work crews that were here in August. While on the island, Mike took them for a tour of some caves. At one point, the cave got rough and Mike warned people wearing sandals that they might have trouble getting through that area. His comment was met with a reply from our cousin Todd... "But Mike, Jesus wore sandals!"

Ok, enough random stories for now. More to come later!