Spring Break begins and Mike's trip

Well, not really for me.  I have school this week and tons of assignments.  I've figured out the key to get it all done is to get up at 5:15 every day during the week.  This way I complete my work and submit by Friday evening.  I have Sat and Sunday to be "normal."  Currently I have a 99 in Professional Nursing and a79 in technical writing!  Carter is gloating over me having a 79.  Mike flew to S. Africa yesterday.  We watched his plane on a satellite map at flytecomm to see his progress.  I'll be posting pics and such when I get them.  The motel where they are staying is directly on the beach of the Indian ocean and boasts of frequent whale sightings. 

 Daylight savings time really fouled up Hudson.  Here he is last night around 7:30.  Weeping and gnashing of teeth--for  no apparent reason.

This is the treat we found when we got home from visiting my 95yr old grandparents yesterday.  Everytime Mike goes on a long trip he leaves surprise notes for us to open.  Such an awesome man(and not just because he left me chocolate!)

As for where he is going, you can clickCHILDREN to read about the hospice for orphans with HIV in S. Africa.  This was taken from the website for rehoboth.org, which is one of the ministries they will be touring.

      All children cared for at Rehoboth have been abandoned or orphaned and are HIV positive .The children are placed on anti-retro-viral treatment (ARV’s) as soon as possible. Rehoboth tries to meet every need that a child has by using a 5-way holistic approach.

People ask us about our mission trips and say things like "isn't that hard?  I don't know if my heart could take seeing kids like that, or I don't think I could leave my children for a week."  The only way to realize how darn blessed you are and to realize that you were meant for ministry is to allow yourself to be placed in those difficult, uncomfortable, stretched thin, heartbreaking, poor, unfair, serving the least of these types of situations.  It is in those situations that we really feel alive.  Plus, we have a goal of obtaining stamps in our passports from the most countries possible.  Heck,  we only live one life.  We want to see it all, do it all, and have no regrets!