After driving through the night, and getting breakfast in Fargo, ND we arrived at the Kerr's house in Clearbrook MN, at 10am, right on schedule. There were several families that were spending the weekend with them for the feast of Shavuot, some of whom we had met at Passover in Missouri earlier that year. It was really nice getting to see everyone again after so long.
Once we had finished setting up our tent, we walked over and watched Annie and Nathan put up there tent :) Then we all went to the pole barn and got introduced to some more folks and chatted for a while until the last family arrived. A little bit after noon we all got together to wave the loaves and bless the Father for this His provisions. After a great lunch and some good fellowship some of us went out and played volleyball for a while, and some did some davidic dancing. I think about everyone there must know how to play the guitar plus a couple other instruments. There where about 7 people playing guitar on stage while 3 or 4 played the drums, bongos and cajon. Anyway, it was awesome watching all the youth do some praise and worship on stage that afternoon. We ate dinner and then decided to play capture the flag with some of the youth that was still there. We where thinking about continuing our game from Passover that we never got to finish, but without Elijah and Ahavah there, it just wouldn't have been the same.... By the time the mosquitos forced us to quit it was just the Kerr family and us. So us kids went back into the pole barn and taught them how to play the card game Mow and had some ice cream. When we finally finished it was pretty late so we quickly showered and went to bed.
We woke up late Monday morning and had a quick breakfast before I went with Annie to pickup some of the guys who's car broke down on the way to a job. I brought Tim and the kiddo's back to house while the other guys went on in Annie's car to complete the job. After lunch us older kids went out to Itasca State Park, bringing with us all of our long boards and GoPro's. Itasca park is the headwaters of the Mississippi River, it's 1,475ft above sea level and 2,552 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico. The water here is clean and clear, completely different from slow moving muddy Mississippi waters that we are use to seeing in Mississippi. We crossed over the Mississippi and back on some rocks at the bottom of the lake where the Mississippi river begins it's journey. Now we can say that we've crossed the Mississippi on foot, maybe I'll swim back across the Mississippi when we are in Mississippi. I think I might have used the word Mississippi to much...
Now onto the longboarding, well actually there wasn't really a good place to long board in the park since all the paths there were covered in pine needles, but we did find a pretty good hill right outside the park. I tried to run with them while flying my glidecam, but I couldn't keep up for long :p so after a while I became brave enough to risk wiping out and breaking my camera, YOLO, lol, and rode Tim's board while flying the glidecam. Man, it was smooth! Rock solid, I never came close to wiping out :) and I got some really sweet shots. I think John probably went the fastest of us all tho, but nobody really cares right? :p Anyway we all had fun till a ranger showed up in a mini van, and told us about four guys who had started canoeing down the Mississippi a week ago, trying to beat the four guys who held the Guinness world record for canoeing all the way down the Mississippi... Well we still had a lot of fun after he told us...
While we were coming back from the headwaters, there were a lot of 6th graders around the visitor center, and walking by with all of our cameras + glidecam + longboards + GoPro's + Tim, (which = epicness) we got asked if we were making a movie :)
We stopped at DaRoos, a pizza place on the way back from the park. We tried to pour ourselves water from the pitcher the waitress brought us, and we all failed, miserably, me worst of all, I think. But we all felt a little better after we asked the waitress to pour water for us and she spilt a little too. And speaking of water Tim showed us how to drink from two cups of water at the same time...
We really enjoyed the pizza and the chance to hang out with our friends.
We didn't do too much once we got back to the house so after a bit we all just went to bed.
The next day we decided to make some music videos with Gideon and Tim. So we took Tim's 7 piece drum set + all my camera gear out into the middle of a field, to shoot his drum solo. It took us several trips to get everything out there, but it was worth it. It probably took us an hour to shoot it once we had everything set up. With all of our GoPro's and glidecam rig we were able to get some really neat shots.
Yes he's wearing a chesty... And yes that's his pink iPod... I told you Tim was cool. :D
Once we got the drum kit back inside we went down the road a little ways and started shooting another music video with Gideon and Tim, playing a song they wrote called wintertime. They have a band called Wrestling Angels and they have a YouTube channel with some of their music on it. You should definitely check them out, I've filmed a couple of the videos they have on their channel, not to mention they are really good.
Unfortunately I don't have any editing software on my sisters laptop so I can't post the videos we shot now, I'll have to wait till I get back home. :(
Once we got that video shot we decided to try another one at an old wooden house down the road that was abandoned and falling apart. But by the time we got there we were surrounded by so many mosquitos that we knew there was no way we could stand still for 4 minutes to record the video. So we started heading back to the house to try to find a better location to shoot this video, without so many mosquitos. Once we got back to the road in front of their house, we were rescued by a squadron of dragonflies that swooped in and started taking out mosquitos left and right. We filmed the second video there on the road, with the dragonflies flying all around us.
We all greatly enjoyed our time at the Kerr's house, so we were pretty sad when we had to leave the next morning. After packing the car and saying our goodbyes, they sent us off singing Everything is Awesome!
Next stop: Roger & Anita's
- Jacob
- Jacob
Photos for this post were taken by Annie Kerr. http://www.iridescentreflectionsmedia.com/
was that Sarah on a long board? :0
ReplyDeletewe miss you, Kerr family! wish we all could have been there!