A Great Day

Do you ever have a great day? I had one of those today. I wish I could live this day over and over and over again. It was so wonderful and I feel so very happy.

It started with Bosu at 0630 with one of Erik's co-workers. Getting out of bed at 0545 was dreadful, but I am so glad I did. I got my rear end kicked by a bunch of older ladies!!! Let's just say that on a scale of one to ten, I have zero arm strength.

I came home and hung out until 1200 when I had to go to school. I played around on the computer figuring out how to organize my pictures. I'm so excited to make photo books! I've done some through shutterfly, but it will be wonderful to not have to upload all my pictures because that takes hours and hours.

And then, when I got to school, my girlfriend Kelsey told me she was engaged!! Well, she held up her hand and we yelped and hugged and cried. Then we (Sam and I) convinced Kelsey to skip class and we went to Starbucks so she could tell us the story of her proposal. It was absolutely beautiful! So simple and very much "kelsey and josh" just like a proposal should be. I love freshly engaged women! Kelsey was just radiating joy! It was so much fun to be excited with her and to share in that joy.

Then, we had a wonderful Africa meeting in which we talked about where we are going and what we are doing. Kelsey is coming to Ghana with me so I got to spend the entire afternoon with her - lovely!

I am so excited to go to Africa! I think about it all the time and think it will be such an amazing experience. I have often tried to write about it, but I never know where to begin and I don't know how to sort through my thoughts.

On paper it doesn't seem as wonderful as it was, but it was truly a wonderful day.

Now I get to hang out with my favourite person in the world, Erik (what punctuation goes there??). And I get to do homework, but that's not so bad.

Hope you all have a wonderful evening.

Oh. And did you know that in the US "rockets" are called "smarties"?? My BIL didn't know there was such a thing as chocolate smarties. Just a random fact.