We knew that Dad would be preaching the commencement sermon at the LCCS graduation this year, which is indeed an honor to him. We hated to miss it, but were expecting to just listen to the podcast, maybe watch a DVD of it a few weeks late. The day before the ceremony, Dr. Estep explained that they were planning a big surprise for Dad, and that they'd like us to "be there" via skype. So after Tom Sowers and Ethan Hoinacki graciously connected their mic and camera on their LCC chapel end, we "showed up" in time not only to hear Dad preach a dynamite sermon, but also to receive the first honorary doctorate LCCS has ever given out. Way to go Dad--you make us proud!
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With a big group like we had, we needed to start super early. It was a pretty soggy morning...
...but it eventually cleared right up.
There where so many points on the trail where it was easy to forget that we were on a tropical island. The Black Forest was certainly one of these points.
No need to haul tents. After summiting, we came midway back down to use a mountain bunk house for cozy resting and hearty eating. Though temperatures during the day remained pretty warm, we did find a little frost on the ground in the morning, indicating a dip below freezing during the night.
_____________And before the end of the month, we managed to make the two-hour flight to Seoul to visit Courtney in Korea. It was great to finally meet up with her after too many months (eight) of being only one time zone away without seeing each other.
Two things shocked us about Seoul. 1) It's size. It's an absolutely huge city. As we could see most of it from the North Seoul Tower, it seemed to dwarf Taipei (not a particularly small city itself). and 2) It's foot-skin-eating fish. That's right. You can sip your coffee and nibble on a dessert while getting the dead skin eaten off your feet by a tank full of small, hungry fish. We're pretty sure they outlawed these little guys in the States (for sanitary reasons), but we were pretty glad to find them going strong in Korea.
At first, it's far more ticklish than the pictures suggest. Then after a few minutes, you get used to it.
Here we are getting ready to eat some of that scorchingly spicy cuisine that Korea is so notorious for...
... and some of that Afro Cream ice cream that Korea will someday be famous for.
Chip was blessed and encouraged to be able to meet up with an old Christian Campus House friend, Tae Seop. Though we didn't get a chance to meet his wife, or see his newborn baby boy, it was still great to meet up with him.
And we were also quite blessed to find another old friend of ours in Korea:
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