May 18 Life on the water.

Sundays.  We are suppose to go to church on Sunday's aren't we?  True confession time here.  We actually did go church today.  It was called the First Church of the Jet Boats.  And because we enjoyed the worship involved with it we spent about seven hours there!  Yes, we didn't darken the actual doors of a church building but instead spent the day with other like minded people on Jerry's Rogue Jetboats.

We had signed up for a short trip which was suppose to be only 60 miles.  They called last night and said they did not have enough people for that trip, would we mind if they  upgraded us to the longest trip as that would fill that boat for them.  Sure, why not.  As it turns out it made for a much more enjoyable day because on this trip we got to run some rapids and make lots of those crazy stop on a dime and turn a complete 360 degrees.  

Hopefully you will be able to view the video. ( It takes a really long time to download it to the blog) It was very hard to hold the camera still as you can imagine. Our pilot was full of all kinds of spit and vinegar which made the trip just that much more enjoyable. The only drawback was that it did rain quite hard about three times but fortunately for us we were able to sit right in front and thus up next to the windshield. The rows behind us were not so fortunate but the company provided tarps and blankets to help everyone keep as warm as possible.

For any interested in the boats (I was going to ask until he volunteered the information) they are powered by three V8 engines which combined put out over 1000 horse power. He had a lot of fun with all those ponys. One time someone said they saw something and we were in the middle of a set of rapids going downstream. So he just stopped and turned around right there and proceeded to go back upstream. Pretty amazing and a lot of fun.

Just in case you are wondering, this is Doug posting tonight. Thus the huh, huh huh stuff!

We were grateful our pilot was willing to be patient and point out any wild life he saw. We saw Osprey, Eagles, Ducks, Mink, Turkey Buzzards, a mamma deer with twin fawns, (did you know all the chipmunks wait around all summer for the fawns spots to fall off so they can claim them for themselves? That is what our pilot says and I believe everything he told us!!!!) He tried really hard to see some bear but they weren't cooperating today.

Dianna has been talking to you about the earth is full of the glory of the Lord. We certainly saw so much of that today. I was reminded again how rivers are such a good example of the glory of God. When you watch the water going downstream and think about how much of it there really is and how many rivers there are in the world it is so humbling to think of the source of them. Our God who made all of them cares for each one of us more than we can imagine. His mercies are without end just like the water that keeps coming downstream in those rivers. We are spending the night in Brookings Oregon and from our room we can see the Pacific Ocean. How big and mighty it is. Our God..........

Tomorrow our plans are to continue on down the coast into the Redwoods. At this point in our trip we do not have any reservations made for the next several days so we are just letting things develop as we go.

Thank you for following our trip. We hope you are enjoying our posts as much as we are doing them