HOUSEBOATS!!!

Every spring about this time I always start thinking and seriously missing houseboats. It's the time when you'd find out what team you'd be on (or not be on...) and you'd start counting down the days until Memorial Day when all of the Sonshine staff gets together for the first time and the summer is officially kicked off. I can't believe that it's been about 3 years since I was on the boats. Every now and then I will smell a smell (usually some form of sewer/raw sewage smell)that puts me right back on those boats. So many amazing memories with that ministry. I wish that I'd have kept in better touch with the dozen or so good friends that I made those summers. I guess I keep telling myself that God blessed me with those friendships for that season in my life, and He's blessed me with the friendships that I have now for this season, and after I graduate there hopefully will be people that will enter in for that season. I just wish sometimes that I was able somehow to carry some amazing people into multiple seasons of my life. People like Kira, Trisha, Shannon, Amber, Court, Cheree, Stacey, Ash, Maryann, I thought that I would remain friends forever with all of those girls, and I've lost touch with all of them (and if it weren't for Blogger, Maryann, I fear it'd be you too). Those ladies were there for me in and out of the Sonshine seasons, which is rare to find someone who talks to you much outside of the summer. Kira, Amber, Trish, Cheree, Ash and Court were especially close to me because of Katie's death October 2004. We struggled and cried together, comforted each other, wrote each other, visited each other, I honestly didn't think I'd lose touch with them. But, sadly, we have. I still think of Katie all the time and how much her life and her death impacted me.
But anyway...here's to Sonshine memories, and to Delta '04 and Shasta '05!!!