big merge adventure

big merge adventure? does that even make sense? it does to me: "merge" is a gathering of young adults (18-30ish) from around BC. this year again in abbortsford - which is a short hop of 1hr and a bit down the highway.

"short hop"??! for someone who can only see 2ft in front of his nose, i'll have you know abbotsford is beyond the end of the known universe ... it may as well be somewhere exotic like swindon. [jas-y, dad here, you may want to reconsider the use of the words swindon and exotic in such close proximity in a sentence] what's weird about travelling to abby is that if we'd driven a few extra k's we'd have been stopped from going south, as I don't officially exist yet. of course we can be crazy mean terrorist machines us 8-day olds, I may be recuiting you subliminally for works of US devastation even as you read this!

anyhow, the merge. mom and dad said they'd been dreaming of taking me to meet people there for ages, so I did my best to be a little angel: I fed at the right time in the night, woke well, packed a hooge bag of stuff, and we rode out ... into POURING rain. so much for the amazing far-reaching mountain views! mom and dad aimed to arrive at 9:30 and we got there at 9:45. how incredible are we? :o) slept a lot while meeting people (not unusual), and particularly enjoyed bouncing to johnny p singing "glory" - definitely one of my fave songs ever! Since my name means "The Lord is God" and I'm named after a prophet, then it's particularly cool when I sing "no I won't be ashamed, when I lift up your name to let all the world see, You are my King". while we're on the subject of names alexander means "defender of the people" or "helper of the people". I like my name, it's amazing.

we're back from the merge now, and in desperate need of sleep, so, TTFN, be in touch soon. Joel