First Tornado Scare!

Distance travelled: From here to church and the lake
Highlights: middle of the night wake-up call, church with the in-laws, swimming at the lake, and mini-cherry pie... what? They were good!
Jericho's fave: The walk he's on right this very second with his grandparents
Malachi's face: probably the pickles he had for lunch.

Nate and I slept downstairs last night and left the boys upstairs next to Grandpa & Grandma's room. We were both sleeping soundly when all of a sudden there were 4 extra people in our room and two of them were plopped in our bed. I was so confused until I looked outside. All I could see was constant lightening. My MIL told me that they were very concerned as the wind had come very quickly and out of concern of a tornado warning, they brought the boys downstairs.

It was amazing to look outside and see the trees blowing like mad and to see these flashes of light every few seconds but to hear no thunder at all. At one point it was eerily quiet. I will admit to being a wee bit fearful for a few minutes there, but before we knew it everything was normal once more. When we checked out the weather warnings all it would say was "severe thunderstorms" so once it calmed down we were just thankful.

Then this morning when my FIL arrived at his church, he received a phonecall from one of his parishioners that their home had sustained some damage from a tornado! And there were a few homes with major damage, but no injuries were reported. Apparently it touched down only 10 minutes from where we were. As scary and exciting as it was, I hope that's the closest me and my family ever are to a tornado.

We barely made it to church on time, which isn't great if you're related to the pastor! But we took our seats and enjoyed the service. They even prayed for my family and the loss of Michael which was nice. There was a couple in church today who had lost their 50 year old son the same day and he had also died in his sleep. It was nice as the sermon was broken up into three segments and two students preached the first two segments. I enjoyed it.

After church we came back to try and cool off and finally headed to the Ghost Lake for a swim. I love the feeling of swimming in cold water on a hot day. The boys had a great time and even enjoyed being thrown in the water a few times. We still can't get over how much better they are at swimming. I told Malachi today that I was so proud of him as he kicked towards me in his lifejacket, out quite deep in the water. He said it was because he's been to swimming lessons. Jericho can go under water and kick himself forward for awhile, but sometimes he overthinks it and starts to doubt himself. Malachi doesn't think.

At lunch today Jericho asked his grandparents if they could please move next to our house, and Malachi told Grandpa that he loved his church. I hope my FIL and MIL have enjoyed us being here, because my children adore them. They will likely enjoy the silence though as the boys love "playing" their piano, organ and toy cymbals.

Clementine is all cleaned out and ready to go. We even fixed an issue with the fuel line below. She seemed to be leaking gas, but all is well. And once we get home we need to order a new door handle as the indoor sliding one is now broken. When something is older, it's just a little more fragile. Hopefully we don't miss air conditioning too much on our next leg of the journey. We're heading to Sleeping Giant Provincial Park outside of Thunder Bay for tomorrow night and from there headed towards Nate's birthplace. Can anyone guess where that might be?

It's a no picture day as not many were taken, but I'll do another picture post if I have good internet access tomorrow.