Snow

Stacy has decided to use the word brilliant more often--for three reasons: It's just kind of a fun word. Second, British people use it, specifically Bear from the show Man vs. Wild, who says it about everything from the breathtaking Chilean Patagonia mountain range to the giant, slimy grubs he's about to eat. And third, it describes our time last weekend in the mountains.

We stayed in a cabin at a Christian camp that they rent to seminary students for cheap. We drove around in the snow, watched the Seahawks game at a fun little Italian place, built snow men, drank hot chocolate, played Monopoly, and just relaxed. Then, on Sunday we drove southish a couple hours to Yosemite. It is one of the most, if not the most, beautiful places I had been to. Stacy had never been but now we both have and we got to see it in the snow. Like John Muir, the explorers who found it years before him, and the Miwok tribe who lived there for who knows how long before that, we were amazed at God's creative genius as we drove into the valley. The weekend was very restful and worship inspiring. Here are a few pictures.

Our cabin, us, and our snowmen

Half Dome

Us and Half Dome

Yosemite Falls