Muddy Sunday

Christina graduates from King of Grace Lutheran. Girls in class cry as they think about missing school friends. The Easterners skip out early to play water polo. The rest of us endure the two hour service followed by the reading of many names for awards. Fortunately the school has only 175 students and only 18 graduates. That’s one advantage of paying for a private school—shorter awards ceremonies. Overall though, it was a very meaningful and impressive service. The dedication of the teachers, principal, and staff is exemplary. The principal went out of his way to find us and thank us for entrusting our daughter with them these past two years.

Nephew Daniel treaded more water today as he scored a goal to help his team win, extending their stay in the rice paddies of central Minnesota. For related swamp stories see http://swansmith.blogspot.com.

I had a wonderful chat with Mai on Friday. She is attending a pharmacy school in Japan. She sent me many wonderful pictures of Japan and some Japanese people (herself included) while we chatted. She hopes to visit us in August. We can hardly wait.