all work, and lots and lots of play!

In the mist of mass chaos and confusion, we still managed to make our way down to Bunburry for State Youth Games 2006! What a great weekend, we had a blast. Unfortunately we had about 10 people drop out of SYG at the last minute, so the week before the big weekend, we decided to join with Warwick church, and be a part of their team. It was so much fun. Their team was "Warwick United", which took on the Power Rangers "look". Each church had to have an action hero theme for the weekend. We already know lots of people from their church, so it was good to just go and spend time with them and play on different sports teams with them. I played ultimate frisbee, indoor beach volleyball and bowling. It was the greatest weekend of my life, filled with pizza, snack food, and cards. The Bunburry church put on a bbq for all of us on Sunday night, so it was super encouraging that we were able to spend some time with them. They were so kind to us while we were there, and took great care of us. Hopefully next year, our Westchurch team will return and we'll win the Small Church award, as we did last year!

This week has been hectic, a lot more than I thought it would be after coming back. It's really starting to get crazy here, Lipscomb will be out in Perth in less than 3 weeks. Friday night we're combining youth groups with another church, Mt. Lawly, just for a little bit of a change. We're really wanting to reach out to not only high school ages, but also accommadate all the young adults that we have. We'll see how it all pans out. On Wednesday, Amy, Helen, Lisa and myself all went and saw x-men 3 in the afternoon. Nothing too special about that. But, over here in Australia, they have gold class seating at the movies, which is like a level above regular seating. We had our very own theater and our own lazy-boy recliners to seat in during the movie. And waiters would bring out food and drinks for us whenever we wanted them to during the film. It was glorious, I absolutely loved it! Cath and I got up for an early morning run, which was sooooooo cold, but also very refreshing. And most of the morning I've spent finishing up some work on the computer. This afternoon, I'm going to visit my friend Anna and then I've got volleyball. The life of duty never stops, even in foreign countries.