Katie comes to the lake!

As many of you may already know, my trip to Haiti, originally scheduled for April 10-17, was cancelled because Christian Flights International thought it too risky to go right now. During the past two weeks, there has been considerable civil unrest throughout the island, so much so that the pilots working for Missionary Air Flights (who fly us into the hinterland near Ranquitte) have decided it's too dangerous to land their planes in certain areas, including the grassfield landing at Pignon. Those of us who were planning to go (Lutheran Pastors Ron Luckey and Barry Neese, along with Dr. Greg McMorrow) will try again in July or August. So that she would not be along at the lake while I was supposed to be gone, June had made arrangements for her daughter Becky and herself to take a week-long cruise in the Caribbean. The two of them "set sail" yesterday. Not expecting me to be at the lakehouse, Lisa, Katie, and Tim had planned to spend the weekend in Georgia and decided to come even though I would still be tromping around the house. I'm so glad they came! We did a bit of boating, tippled a small bottle wine, chatted lots, washed diapers, stir-fried veggies on the grill and pan-fried some salmon. Just a great time! On Sunday Katie got a wee bit ill, throwing up twice, but by this morning she was back to her eight-month self, all smiles, except for when Lisa tried to take a picture of her on my shoulders. She just wouldn't "mug-it-up." She really is something! And I love her!

For more information about Haiti, visit my other blog: http://www.prayingdaily.blogspot.com/.