Enjoyin' KY beauty!

Next week is going to be absolutely zany for us so when we discussed last Sunday when to do "that kayak trip" with Siobhan, we decided there was no time better than the present and scheduled it for this morning. We only had a few hours on the river as we had to be back at the center by 1 to give missions advice to some missions-minded high school students in town for Icthus (their youth leader, Bonnie Olds, was a classmate of ours at Asbury). But fortunately we can drop into the KY River about 10 minutes from home and it's just a few paddles to the Dix, a smaller, quieter river where we met lots of friendly folks out enjoying the peace of nature too. It was just what I needed and a nice time spent with a good friend!

If you could see this photo full size, you would see that Ellie is stuffing her mouth with Cheerios.

This is the other view of Ellie one sees in the kayak. Next time we're going to have to bring a rope to tie around her waist. She just wanted IN the water! It made for several whiney moments where we were beginning to re-think what a wonderful idea this was for 'family time'! Other than that, we got a lot of smiles and even a photo request from another kayaker who thought we were 'so cute'!