Playing and Praying at the Beach

Greetings! Hope you all had a cool week! And a nice Memorial Day weekend last weekend. I did a little bit of shopping for my trip to Mexico (that's in just a few 13 days, give or take a few hours). I did spend a little bit of time remembering those who need not be forgotten. Oh, I had another Mexico meeting last Saturday where we worked on one of the skits we will be doing there. I just read in my email that we will work on it again at our potluck we are having so our families that come will be our audience. How nice!
This time of the month can be slow at work, so I was able to take a couple days off this week to go to the coast with my close dear friend, Care. We met Tuesday after my day at work and drove down to the coast where my family has a cabin. We stopped in Albany for dinner and saw some ducks, which made me think of my grandpa and I when we went to feed the ducks at the lake. It was quite interesting watching them as we were eating in the food place. Off we went again and got to the cabin after 9:00, and watched the movie, Clue. It is such a good movie...I think that is my third time watching it but I could watch it at least 100 times maybe but not in a row and still enjoy it. Wednesday, we went into town and into a couple antique malls as we both like to go antique shopping. It is very fun to see what there might be in the malls, just to look at. I took Care to the bayfront where there were little shops and ate lunch at Mo's. No, I did not get my halibut but had a good tuna sandwich with clam chowder and Care had her fish 'n chips. On the way back we stopped for ice cream, of course!! One cannot go to the beach and not have ice cream! In the evening, we played the Bible game on video and some other games. That was after we watched most of the second half of the Boston-Detroit game and Boston won, 106-102.
Thursday, we spent some time in the Word, played more video games, went to the beach, ate at a '60s style restaurant, saw some sea lions, and got some taffy. All said and done, we finally got back home a little after 9:00 in the evening. I know that we both enjoyed ourselves and that we grew in our friendship and in our relationship with the Lord as well.
"So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing. (Note: Paul is in Ephesus) Now after these things were finished, Paul purposed in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, 'After I have been there, I must also see Rome.' And having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while." Acts 19:20-22