First visitors - good friends - great day!

Mary and Bob in front of our house.

Mary and Bob Thomas were on a Southern Gospel cruise that included Nassau as one of it's stops. We had been emailing with Bob and Mary for about a week before their arrival to find out what they would to do or see while here for the day. They had been here before and seen the tourist areas, so they decided to spend the day with us, seeing the "real" Nassau. We had a gourmet lunch at Wendy's and then off to The Adventure Learning Centre! Mary immediately fell in love with the donkeys - she said that it made her homesick for her donkeys in FL. Bob was taken aback by the price of deodorant here - he said he would stink if he lived here, for $8 for men's deodorant. We had a great day visiting, catching up, and showing them what God has called us to do here in Nassau. It was so nice to see friends from home and get to share our life here with them. Thank you for being such a blessing to us Mary and Bob!

When Mary and Bob arrived we found out that the Brown family was performing on the ship. The Browns had performed at Harvest Chapel about a year ago, and our kids had become friends, and have stayed in communication with them through MySpace. Below is a picture of all of us together when they got off the cruise ship. Their family was in a hurry to get a video made during the day so we didn't get to spend much time with them. We are thankful that they took the time to have their picture taken with us. You can check our their website at http://www.thebrownsmusic.com/. They are amazing.

Our family and The Browns - February 2008

There are Sting Rays here!

We had our first scare last Sunday when David and Martin went out into the water to snorkel for a couple of hours, just to relax. All was well, until they came home and David showed me his finger where he "thought" he had gotten hit by a sting ray. I immediately applied some Sting Stop, but it didn't react the way it does on other stings. Within a few minutes the pain started in his hand, then up the arm into his shoulder. We prayed and gave it to the Lord, and made some phone calls to see if anyone had ever experienced this before. The advice we got was to go to the local clinic and get him looked at.

We jumped in the van and headed down the street from our house. They took him in and immediately gave him a shot of something like Benadryl and TWO syringes of pain meds - at this point David was writhing in pain. The meds didn't take affect as soon as the doc wanted them to, so he sent us to the hospital. Now you have to imagine the "public" hospital here. We have heard that you only want to go there if you are almost dead. By the time we figured out how to get into the ER, the pain meds started to kick in. I don't know if it was the pain meds or the place that made David change his mind, but we left the hospital. Once we got home, David took some old Benadryl we had here, and two Tylenol #3, ate a sandwich and banana and passed out. While we were gone, Travis contacted our home church, Harvest Chapel, and started the prayer chain.

On Monday morning, you would have never known that anything had happened other than a little stiffness in his finger where he was hit. David worked the rest of the week without pain or any after effects of the sting. It was a major allergic reaction to the sting. God is soooooo good!