Saturday, January 10, 2009

Trav-o and The Missés

Hello All!

Hope this blog today finds you well and warm! A lot of you canadians are snuggled up away from the cold outside. New Zealand is as beautiful as ever! It must be close to 30 degrees today. I love days like this...where you feel as if you have accomplished many things...and made the time count! Well...we checked out the New Zealand Seven's Rugby Competition today, lotsa crowds. New Zealanders really love love their rugby, that is for sure! Rugby sevens are great, the games only last seven minutes, have seven players, and each 'touch-down' thingy is seven points. Kicks are worth 3, I much rather these than the full regular games. Anyway then we were off to the Lake Hayes A&P Show! Exciting stuff...lol....seen some sheen, alpaca's etc. And checked out the Lumberjack show, it actually reminded me of when I was little, Edson's Canada day and various events had much more family games etc...so it was nice. Deanna drove home! And did it perfectly, I think she is ready to go by herself, and be fine! Of course there will be the odd scary moment but we all went through it! Just thinking of driving on the right side of the road when we are home...seems so foreign! Both Trav and I are getting excited to go home...and it sure is coming quick, we will be leaving a lot of the belongings we have back here in NZ, hoping to come again next September for another season! Trav and some of the guys at Queenstown Rafting think I should give raft guiding a try next season in NZ...it seems so scary, and I am fearful I will not be a natural like Trav. All the other guides have respect for him and it is nice to see. He went through his worst fear the other day actually, it could of been a lot worse...but God protected them all for sure. The Shotover River has a man-made cave from the goldminers decades ago, and they go in it when the river is lower. Well they went in and one of the rafts got jammed side ways, and travis was the second boat behind it, but because it is a cave it is all dark so it was almost impossible to see ahead. Anyway, two whole boats flipped, and the three were all jammed together. O, and I forgot to mention on the other side of the cave is the worst rapid on the river, it has a sieve on the left side which can be deadly...fortunately nobody got hurt! Anyway, they ended up having to pop two of the rafts in order to un-jam em all. A few of the rafters were shaken up but luckily fine! Travis was quite shaken up for the rest of the day, and was thankful to have all day yesterday off. His biggest fear was having a rafter caught up under one of the three rafts that were stuck in the cave, they could drown so easily that way. Thank God for everyone's safety! I guess we learn important stuff when we go through those type of situations, so whew!
Well...that's it folks...for now!
Cheerio!
Sam

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ~Nelson Mandela