My trip to the DC Zoo- part 1

Great Wolf Lodge- Video

The most fun was had in the Wave pool. Here are some videos of us bouncing in the waves.

Rob and August

Rob and Rose enjoy the waves.

Rose and August head out into the calm water.

Great Wolf Lodge- Water fun

We spent the majority of our time in the water. There was a section for the kids but I didn't seem to get any photos of them there. These photos are at the wave pool where we all had the most fun.

Great Wolf Lodge- Rose's view

Next Rose got a turn with the camera. These were the better ones she took.

She also got a turn while we were in the water, that is her daddy.

Great Wolf Lodge- August's view

I got to spend the weekend with Rob, Becky, August and Rose at Great Wolf Lodge. It was a very fun weekend. When we first arrived on Friday I handed August the camera and this was his impression of the room.

He also took this picture from our window. Those are the big water slides that we adults went down.

1st and 2nd grade

These are my first and second grade class photos. As my friend's 5 year old so intellegently pointed out-- "You are the only one with white skin."

Upcoming Fundraiser

Dr. Koning is a general surgeon who lives in Bend. He recently retired from the practice of medicine in the Bend area, and has been working with the Medical Teams International, traveling and working in Ethiopia.

In the course of his work there, he has discovered that more than 20 thousand children die every year from hydrocephalus, commonly known as “water on the brain.” In Ethiopia , there is one doctor for every 40,000 people. There are only two surgeons in the entire country. The children with hydrocephalus could all be saved if they had a $40 shunt put in, to drain the fluid from inside the skull. The immediate problem isn’t the lack of surgeons; it is the lack of shunts. There aren’t any. And there isn’t any money to buy any. What Dr. Marinus Koning would like to do is raise funds to purchase shunts for the Myungsung Christian Medical Center , in concert with Medical Teams International, for a new clinic specifically for hydrocephalic children. For every $40 raised, a child’s life will be saved.