We leave for the States in about a month. We'll be spending 3 short months visiting friends and family, packing as much as we can in before school starts again here at the beginning of August. So in the meantime, we've been trying to make travel plans, arrange places to stay, dream about where we'll go and what we'll do and who we'll do it with... all while trying to stay focused on our day to day tasks.
Last week, however, we were able to step back and celebrate the completion of a lengthy project. Some of you might remember a post back in December about a complete rebuild we were doing on the floats of Pastor Bennie's Cessna 172. After stopping to do other necessary work, we were finally able to complete the project. We celebrated the occasion with our families with a churrasco (Brazilian bar-b-que). It will be good to see the plane flying again, taking Bennie to visit church leaders and provide support to the growing church movement that he oversees.
After driving many of the close to 8,000 rivets that hold together the floats, I'm thankful for the experience the project provided.
