Ah yes… Tuesday. Today we all piled into the car and headed for the San Juan Islands. Shaw island in particular. Shaw is one of many smaller islands in the Puget Sound and they are a main tourist attraction in the summer. We arrived after the hour and a half journey at the ferry dock at Anacortes and loaded on shortly after leaving my uncle jon behind because he has this thing called a job and couldn't get away. As we stood on the balcony seals and dolphins...

...or not so daily journal. but i have an excuse! im busy! heh well anyways the past few days have been very exciting. on sunday i went to my aunt and uncles church. the sermon was very good and i got to meet a lot of people. we had lunch and i watched the seahawks pummel san fran, which is coincidentally where im going next. while i was there in front of the tube my uncle jon showed me how to tie the leaders that we used to "floss" for salmon. for you ...

hey everyone! this is the first of hopefully many thrilling entries to my journal. today i left columbus at 7 am and had a decent plane ride. it was nearly 5 hours long and i drifted in and out of consciousness for most of the trip. i sat next to an older christian couple on the plane and they were very nice. the food and drink costed an arm and a leg however. my small bottle of water was 2 bucks. needless to say i savored every sip. arrival time in bellingham, W...