Hey there fellow friends and family,

I am currently sitting at the basketball game at church with Kyky. I am not too fond of the sport and get easily confused, but it makes for fun entertainment and beats sitting at home alone. Though sleep sounds so much better right now due to the fact that we just got back from our day in the snow. 

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We took the Middle and High School kids up to Mt. Hoodoo (I have been informed though that it is not "Mt. Hoodoo" to the locals, but just plain old "Hoodoo") Random fact... 

We had a total of 59 students and leaders on a bus driving for 2 hours. Once there we all went tubing on the Autobahn for a long time... If you haven't been tubing before, let me quickly explain it... you get a tube that looks like one you would use on the water behind a boat, get in line and either patiently wait to get hooked to a cable pulley or take the short cut and walk up the hill which proves to be more painful than anything. Once to the top you find a line you want to be in, the hardest having the longest line, to the easiest that has the shortest line. Your turn comes and you have a few options. 1. sit in the tube facing forward and gently push off and go down the hill at a moderate pace all the while dragging your feet as brakes which makes you stop too far from the end and you end up having to walk the rest of the way. 2. repeat one without using your feet as brakes and you get to the end feeling pretty good about your experience. or 3. take a running head start, jumping onto your tube on your stomach and go barreling down the mountain at racing speeds uncommon to man and go flying past the finish lines and up the runway ramp and over that until you are stopped short by a fence and a security guard telling you next time use your feet as brakes.... 

The last run of the day, Joy and I went down in the double tube with the flip video spinning around flying down the hill. Just when I thought it was all over at the end, I stood up and Joshua yelled my name. I looked around for him and then the next thing I knew I was flying backwards over some small child and his tube that just used me as a bowling pin and landed on my head. It hurt so bad... Joy pulled me away in a tube to the side lines. Joshua came over and said he laughed when it happened!! He thought to himself, "Oh it's just Mary. She will be fine" Wow Joshua... Thanks....