The Pink Kayak!!!!

Yes, it's is true, I am now the proud owner of a pink, Old Town Vapor 10XT kayak. I LOVE it!! I am so beyond excited about it. It combines my passion for kayaking and my love of the color pink. Plus, it's different than most every other kayak I've seen!!! It was such a cool experience. For those of you that don't know the story, I couldn't find any outfitter locally to do a special order so I called "Old Town" and they arranged it so I could buy it through them. They were so helpful in the whole process. It is now sitting in the middle of my living room, which looks kinda funny but ok with me. I'm not the type of person that's been into formal decor so having a 10' kayak in the middle of my 10'x10' living room is quite "ok" with me! My cat, Kyra, has also become very attached to it. It's so cute. Today I went to the Ohio Dept of Natural Resources Watercraft Office at EastFork and got my registration for it. They were so helpful there, too. I've never registered a boat so they explained a lot of it to me. (They also told me that my inflatable kayak needed to be registered...glad to find that out before Nikki and I go out on EastFork Lake!!!). Who would have ever thought that I would not only own my own kayak but own a really cool pink one!!! YAY for the really neat things that God let's you have!!

The happy tired!

So CT09 is over and all that is left from the week are happy memories, pictures and some cases of back packs that will be used for our school year project. It was such a cool five days. On Wednesday watching people bring in more and more school supplies made me cry pretty much all day (in a good way!), watching Meggie Adamson and company lead worship and Chris Haun speak some very wise words was awesome and watching people put together back packs and purses, sign cards and sort and stamp books and give blood was so cool. One of my favorite things of the evening was watching people who don't normally hang out together get to know each other...very cool. Thursday was a hustle and bustle of serving and was amazing to see almost 200 people going out to serve Nursing Homes, Fire Stations, Police Stations and the Ronald McDonald house. Friday was the carnival at Piccadilly. It was great to see that we are beginning to build a reputation of trust with that community. What a great connection. Saturday was the street cleaning and clean and fixing at A Caring Place. How cool is it that people are willing to be here at 8am to serve. I think that is just incredible! Sunday was the church picnic and Pam Terrell and her team did an AWESOME job at making that such a fun event. CT09, come and gone. BUT...not over. Our community efforts will be continuing on through the year. Care Groups will be going to Ronald McDonald house to serve dinner to the residents and their families once a month, the Care Groups will also be partnering with local schools to provide some back packs through out the school year. The Children's Literacy Outreach begins this Wednesday and volunteers will be reading with children at Piccadilly on Wednesdays and Saturdays through out the summer. We are so going to be "in our world." I love it!!!!!