Three in the morning is a great time to post.

Season's Greetings friends and family. We are about to leave the Red Stick (Baton Rouge that is) and heading towards the Red Lake. I turned in my grades for my Calc class late last night. I can't believe the semester is over. We are hoping to get on the road very close to 4 AM central time. We will see many of you very soon and some of you even sooner. =P

We drive 14 to 18 hours today to get to my parents house in Eastern Iowa. Then we "sleep in" on Monday to continue north at 6 AM. I am excited about driving through Northern Iowa. We are meeting Lori Adams for breakfast. She has been a good friend of mine for over 10 years now. She was the coordinator for my mission trip to to Uganda back in 02 and she prayed at our wedding this summer. I am looking forward to some time that Lori and Rachel can get to know each other a bit.

So 9 hours or so of driving to spend Monday night in International Falls with Rachel's brother Sheldon and his family. Finally we ONLY have 6 hours of driving on Tuesday to arrive in Red Lake Ontario.

* Pray for safe travels. Pray that the 30 plus hours in the car would be a time the strengthens and deepens our marriage. And pray that the time over the next 3 weeks with friends and family would renew us both for the coming year.

Hope to post again soon.

It's snowing in Baton Rouge!!!!!

OK so Rachel made a comment on her latest post about not wearing pants while going uptown. And yes she meant shorts. (She'll think I'm not so tough, just because I'm in love with and up town girl, Ah Billy Joel).

So yesterday I had to go to campus. I was about to put some khaki pants on when Rachel said to me, "Say sweetie, it's not that cold out and I'm trying to get enough laundry done for the trip. Could you wear shorts to campus?" Eight hours later I am sitting in the math building and my lovely wife pops up on IM. She asks me, "Hey Dave how safe are you going to be driving home? They are predicting frezzing rain in parts of Mississippi and Louisiana." I didn't freeze here, but it was raining a bunch and in the lower forties upper thirties while I was walking down the hill to get to my car. In shorts that isn't fun. I made it home last night and I felt like a mathsicle.

So life isn't dull around here. We are putting in about 30 hours of driving in three days at the begining of next week. So pray for us. And we will see many of you in the great white north.

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Hey I just posted this blog and looked outside and there is about an inch of snow outside. In Baton Rouge!!!!

crazy stuff eh? =)