Cherish and her husband Patrick live in Ely, MN and together pastor Oasis International. They also travel to other countries to minister. In fact Cherish will be coming to Canada in November to lead a Women's Conference at the Dryden Full Gospel Church. I am so excited about that. This was Patrick's first trip to Canada since they were married April 2015. He was really looking forward to experiencing Canada and seeing our camp.
The warmest day was the first day of their visit and Cherish specifically wanted a warm day to float down the Lazy River, alias Ripple Creek coming out of Mamieguess Lake. We loaded up the tubes and took two boats to our destination. It was great fun and everyone again marveled at the beautiful, clear water and soft, sandy bottom as we lazily floated the curvy river and enjoyed God's creation.
On another sunny day, we decided to take the troops to Kukukus Lake for some really good fishing. It's quite a trek from our place to the north end where the boat landing is located, with several large cobblestone paths to drive on where beaver dams are located. We caught northern pike, Walleye and Bass to bring home for a massive fish dinner which was a delight to everyone's palette.
The most fun was watching Aaron and Titus reeling in a fish and experiencing their excitement. They both thoroughly enjoyed watching their Daddy, Jonathan, hook a huge Smallmouth Bass and fight it as it kept running through the water and leaping in the air. Jonathan named him Chompers.
Jonathan and Patrick are always looking for a new thrill and decided to bring a couple of tubes down to the rapids and jump into that fast moving flow. Jonathan carefully felt around with his feet to check out rocks beneath the surface to avoid any danger. Then once they both shot the rapids and reached the pool at the bottom, Patrick pointed out to Jonathan that the bottom of one of his feet was all black. Jonathan looked at it and hollered, "It's blood suckers"! and furiously clawed them all off. It was pretty gross. He must have stepped in a nest of them on one of the rocks. They laughed and laughed about that.
One afternoon, we all loaded onto the pontoon boat and traveled around the islands on the north end of Indian Lake. Then we headed over to the gravel/sandy spit of land that reaches out into the middle of the lake and parked there so the little boys could run off the pontoon boat and swim to shore. They had a blast doing that.
On Sunday, Patrick led us in some worship songs with his guitar and we watched a terrific message via DVD of Dan Mohler who was recently speaking at the church Cherish and Patrick pastor in Ely, MN... Oasis Intl.
Such fun... eating, visiting and playing together. Nothing like having the chilluns home.
