It was a good Memorial Day weekend for us here, too. Bellingham has a Ski-2-Sea race weekend every year at this time, with a parade on Saturday and a race on Sunday. The race is 7 legs, starting with downhill skiing, then running, then cross-country skiing, then mountain biking, then road biking, then swimming, then kayaking. It starts at Mt. Baker and ends up in Bellingham Bay. Where else can you do that? That is awesome! All of you have to come up here to live.

At the parade on Saturday, our church had a float to advertise our Summer Academy that we do every summer. It's like a day camp for kids with fine arts, sports, and faith stuff going on. The float was designed and build by a team of church members lead by Bethany. She was very good coordinating everyone, I must say. Here is a picture of the float:


We also handed out 500 squeezie balls shaped like basketballs and soccer balls that had the dates of our Summer Academy on them with our phone number. We might have 80-100 kids this year...

Sunday was a fun day at church - mostly good stuff going on during service. That night we had our Alias and 24 watching party for the season finales. Alias was bit disappointing, but 24 was awesome! I love that show. We had burgers from our half-a-cow we bought. We only have 45 pounds of hamburger meat left.

Tonight we had a couple of softball games, but they were of no consequence because none of the umpires showed up on account of the holiday. I am the pitcher and we are warming up for a tournament this weekend. I am going for 3 strikeouts.