When life feels like a hamster wheel, try a canoe trip on Sugar Creek! Our 3-mile float this morning was the start to a great day. The trip lasted 2.5 hours, and we spent the time reflecting on the roadtrip thus far, watching for a blue heron that tagged along near us, and listening to true quiet (a lost ingredient in regular life). One minor bump into a tree brought Kendall crashing forward into Stan's seat, but her sore tooth is much better tonight. She's been such a trooper on this trip. And Kelsey was taking pictures left and right (some of the canoe pics in today's post are hers). She loved every minute of the adventure.
Following hot showers to wash off all the sunscreen and bugspray, we visited the Lew Wallace Museum in Crawfordsville. He was a Major General in the Civil War (and played a part in preventing the capture of D.C. by Confederate troops). In the years after the war, he returned home to Crawfordsville and embarked on what he later termed "the greatest accomplishment" of his life: the writing of the novel "Ben-Hur." It received world-wide acclaim and became the highest selling book of the 19th century. We visited the museum because we've watched the 1959 movie "Ben Hur" the last two years in the week leading up to Easter, and it's become a very important and powerful piece of our Holy Week. In addition to the glimpse into Wallace's life, it also was fun to see a few set pieces from the movie, which starred Charlton Heston (one word: chiseled!).
The day wrapped up in a wonderful evening spent with Mike and Pam Uhl, longtime friends from my Editor days. They pastor a church here in Crawfordsville, and tonight they ministered to us...a delicious meal, loving on our kids, sharing so many precious stories about family--theirs and ours. We'll go to bed tonight very tired from a full day, yet filled up by friends' love.
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| Sing with us..."Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream." |
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| Gen. Wallace's Study (i.e. man-cave!) |
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| Pam and Mike |
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