We arrived late last night back to Kona and realized that this place was starting to feel like home. It’s a funny feeling when you start to think a place like Hawaii is home, but as I type these words and barely notice the seven kids that live above us jumping off their loft I realize that the three months we’ve already spent here feel a lot longer than that.
Winnipeg was white and pleasantly cool over Christmas. We arrived at the airport only to be greeted with lots of family…and that pretty much summarizes the whole trip. We spent almost all our time with family-it was awesome! Ben’s sister Lisa was due to have her fourth baby the week we were home and we waited with anticipation the whole time hoping that it would happen. We had lots of laughs between Phase Ten and Karaoke with the Krystiks and hanging out with the Doerksens. We were also able to see a lot of friends at church on Christmas Eve and had the opportunity to serve others on Christmas day at Siloam Mission.
We got this great new game called Carcassonne for Christmas and we played it with Kevin, and then again at the Doerksen gathering with Jon, Mandy, Colin and Tasha, with our little cousin Twila’s help! It’s a fun game and any who would like to play it with us is invited to come over for a games night, it’s only an 8-10 hour flight :)
The last day at home we drove around like crazies trying to do little errands like get Tim’s coffee cups for people back here in Hawaii originally from Canada. We packed that night until 1:00am and then got up a few hours later to be at the airport for 4:00am. It was hard to say good-bye… there were so many people we wish that we could have spent more time with and we miss everyone already, but now we have a much needed week of rest before we dive back into studies!
Oh, and by the way, this morning we woke up to an email that Lisa had her baby the same time we were leaving for the airport, a little cutie named Noah Ethan, I knew we should have stayed just one more day…
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