Bettine's Birthday Shindig

Way back n the month of August I had the amazing opportunity to celebrate eon of my closest friends birthday's (Bettine!) up in Aylmer. Making my way there after work (yes I worked my usual eight hour shift in the morning) and making a few stops on the way to run some errands, I made it time to help with a few dinner preparations. We followed our meal and fellowship by lighting a floating lantern Bettine had received from one of her wonderful friends from redeemer. This however was not nearly as easy as it sounded or looked. We began my simply unwrapping our lantern and then after looking at it for several minutes and still being slightly unsure as to how to completely the great task of lighting such an object eluded us, we went to the internet for help (I think?). The next issue we encountered was to actually lighting a match. After many tries (and our match box passing from hand to hand seeing who had such a wondiferous talent) we finally lit a match, only to have it blown out by the breeze. We continued to light our matches and feed the flame to our fuel cell, but our lantern refused to be lit. After a while we began adding newspaper to kindle the fuel cell, and finally our lantern was lit. Below are the results

Making an attempt at the matches. 

Up, Up, and Away!

What a celebration of the life we have come to appreciate and admire as a great gift from God with her bright enthusiasm and spirit.

The next day Natasha (Bettine's new roommate), Bettine, and I headed off to the Aylmer fall fair to see four H students show off their calf's and to experience the many joys of the fair. Unfortunately it wasn't long before we realized that such many joys cost many money's for very few thrills. As a result we simply watch some cows, enjoyed the sight of various rides and devoured some very delicious french fries and slushies.

 

Sebastian Showing his Calf

What and amazing start to my short summer vacation. Can't wait to hopefully visit some of these girls and spend an enjoyable weekend up in Redeemer. (Someday or should I say month soon? One can only hope!).

Jessica Sipkens