Canoes in the Snow

Bengi and Jeremy, the cousins who I am currently living with (have I written about them yet?), ran into my room yesterday and said, "Eden! Lets use the canoe as a sled!"
At this moment I could have said in a responsible and motherly tone, "Now that wouldn't be very safe would it" and "It might ruin the canoe." But instead I said, "Why didn't we think of that before!"
The next thing we knew, we were flying through the air sideways and then hitting our heads on the frozen pond. The "hitting our heads on the frozen pond" part wouldn't have been so bad if the canoe had not responded to gravity as well. Needless to say we did that quite a few more times!

Also, today Dale and I along with many of the people from the college group at our church went to a girl's apartment and played in the snow. We built a snowman taller than all of us, did some sledding, and Dale and I taught them a balloon popping game from camp where the balloons are sort of like your babies but you try to pop each others (except we used snowballs instead of balloons). It was a little more morbid than usual. Especially when people started crushing each other's snowball babies beneath their feet and yelling "ABORTION!"

4 and 20,000 Blackbirds

Today when Dale was running and I was riding my bike beside her we saw the largest and longest flock of blackbirds we ever saw. We were traveling south and they were flying north over the field next to us for 2.5 miles and probably more, but at the end, they trailed off into the horizon and we never did see the end of them. I rarely enjoyed studying biology, but I think I can see now why someone would devote their life to figuring out things about birds, or the stars, or the human body. There is an infinate amount of unexplored territory for scientists. Everything has been created with such complexity, no one, even with one-thousand lifetimes of research, could ever figure everything out.