An hour or two at the beach

BEACH TIME


After lunch we sped off to the beach with several of the church workers to see if we could dip a foot into the black sea.






Everyone enjoyed a little bit of time at the beach. I think if a poll were put out that this is DEFINITELY one of Steve's spiritual gifts.







The beach here is much like Lake Michigan with the big waves. (Although there are more stones and shells - but that wouldn't' be hard since Lake Michigan is fresh water with a pure sand beach).





We even got to go "tubing" behind some Sea-doos in big raft like objects. These things are fun. I've seen some of them in America but they had some REALLY big ones (two wide missile like things!)





It was a blast.








The local church members who were with us said they've never done anything like that so it was very fun for us to be able to participate with them in this activity.






Big smiles were had by all and all but the small children were able to go (the water was very rough)..






The above picture looks dark when viewed on the blog. I'm not sure why. Click it for a larger easier to see version. This is Yuri and Natasha (celebrated their 2 year anniversary yesterday!) with Kamil (on the right). Kamil is the pastor of the local church where we have been working with them to complete the VBS (day camp).

They've been working by our side all week long. We are so thankful for them!



Even most of us men were hoping by the end of our ride that we'd be done soon. Nothing like being blasted by sea water and 4ft waves at about 40mph sitting on a rubber inner tube device!!






Kent, of course, had to challenge the driver by putting his hands up in the air to go "no hands". Suffice it to say the driver took the challenge and we did a full 360 rotation behind him and could hardly breathe the rest of the ride.






Some of the group even asked the driver to go back early because they were freaked out. Those shall remain nameless. (of course you could just look at the picture and the lady with the life preserver on, but then you'd know and I didn't tell you).

The girl grew up tubing on the lake. What a wuss (love you KT)


Well now we're back at the seminary for a tiny bit of R&R then dinner.

(Actually, everyone went to dinner but my family since we're going to a later dinner with a family from the church. Olga took the day off work today to prepare a Ukranian dinner for us. What a kind thing to do!)

More tomorrow!! We still have lots of things to do with people from the church here. VBS may be done, but our ministry here is certainly not!