My Perspective On Alaska...

Hello All and Happy New Year if I haven't said it yet. Well, we got back from Alaska on Monday night and the trip was so fun. If I'm being honest I wasn't excited about going to Alaska...mostly because I was just being lame. I was tired after Christmas and I have an interview weekend coming up and I was letting all that get to me. Luckily, as usual, God knows more than I do and I am now so glad I went! It was actually kind of rejuvinating for me...and not just because it was so cold! Here are some of the highlights:

• Craig our host and our driver in Anchorage. Playing pool and going to Moose Tooth Pizza with him.
• Theresa from the Cathedral in Anchorage who took us out to breakfast and was so encouraging to us.
  
• Megan, Jon and Jacob Wohler's in Kenai...took us to Veronica's Coffee House and Little Ski-Mo's (where Alaina ate Mobey Dick).
• We saw 3 moose close up
• 
• We met Pat in Soldotna...who is orignally from Ephrata, WA and made us some great meals.
  
• sledding and snow drifts and cross country skiing for Melissa and Fred
  
• The cloistered convent where we got to go to daily mass and Adoration.
  
• Some of the team ate reindeer sausage.
• We took a detour to Hope on the way to Kenai.
• We ate at the only Dairy Queen in all of Alaska.
• We were housed with a full blooded Eskimo (Jacob Wohler)
• 

This is just some of the fun...I had a great time with the team who put on some good retreats. If anyone in Alaska is reading this just know that we would love to come back! Here's some pictures....


I will be putting up a slide show of retreat pics on the media page soon! Hopefully tomorrow. I'm so thankful for the opportunities God is opening up for Reach!