Welcome to the Scharrer family's real life story! Most of our story is written for, and about, our four kids and the spice they add to our lives. It's our story of happiness, craziness, and sometimes ridiculousness. We've journaled through childbirth, the terrible two's, private school (and our public school experience), an autism diagnosis, medical school, residency, and long-term mission work in Africa.

Now we're following a new adventure, which involves a 45 foot motorcoach, homeschool, and as many ski slopes as we can go down in one year.

For posts from while we were living in Zimbabwe and updates about our future plans in Zimbabwe, please see our mission blog...

www.ourzimbabwejourney.blogspot.com.





11 August 2008

Weekend Summary

Before dropping Erik off at the airport on Sunday, we had a great last weekend together... Erik was at drill on Wednesday and Thursday, but on Thursday night (after Erik attended a student council meeting in Minneapolis) Maida and I met up with him at our friend Jon's house. Jon was out of town for the weekend, so he let us use his house! We got a good night's sleep on Thursday night and headed out on Friday morning for south eastern Minnesota. There we got a campsite at Mystery Cave State Park. Friday night was Kristin and Clark's wedding, which was just beautiful! We really enjoyed seeing (and meeting) other students from St. Olaf. We stayed until midnight, when we had to pry Maida off the dance floor, kicking and screaming. She's quite the dancer! Friday night we camped, Saturday we toured the Mystery Cave. This was our second cave to go in since being married, and we loved both of them! Caves are so beautiful and mysterious - even Maida likes them! After going through the cave, we traveled on up to Rochester, MN where we met up with my friend Allison, from Oklahoma Christian, and met her husband Grady and daughter Caitlin. It was fun to see their new house and talk to them about what they've been up to. The girls played well together and had fun learning new things from each other. I had fun catching up with Allison and hope that we get to see her again soon!

Saturday afternoon was a lot of shopping and last minute things before packing Erik up and sending him on the plane on Sunday. However, just once we thought we had everything together, Saturday night we all three got sick. We think we got food poisoning from a Mongolian/Chinese grill that we ate at for dinner on Saturday night. It was horrible! I threw up all night and morning, and after dropping Erik off at the airport on Sunday, Maida and I headed for the Super 8, where we spent last night recuperating. We slept most of the day yesterday and today we're feeling much better, so will head home after checking out this afternoon.

I haven't heard anything from Erik, but according to the internet, both of his planes landed safely (and ahead of schedule) and he should be in Beijing right now (I've been watching for him to appear on the Today Show - that's just something he'd do!)! Here are some pictures from the weekend...

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