Gosh, am I tired. I've spent the better part of the last three days in the basement, jackhammering, sledgehammering, chipping, grinding, and even sawing away at concrete and rock. We've more or less completed the major tasks we set out to do, so that's good. Tomorrow should be a fairly light day, mostly cleaning up around the place and packing up our stuff for Latvia (we leave on Friday morning). The Brits leave early tomorrow morning for Bergen, where they'll spend a day seeing the sights before meeting up with us on Friday in Riga.

Today was a really brutal day, physically and mentally - Cody and I spent the entire day in the dark, dusty basement (we joked that it looked like a mining camp, with all the dust and debris) trying to literally saw and chip away at a giant boulder embedded in the foundation of the house. We had to carve away a big chunk of it in order be able to install the new floor. It was really kind of depressing, spending the entire day (the past 3 days, really) indoors in a dark, dusty corner of the basement, and making extremely slow progress. Fortunately, Cody is a kindred spirit when it comes to hard labor, and we were able to keep each other motivated and focused on the task. Boy did it feel good to crawl out of that hole at the end of the day and jump into the cool, refreshing fjord!

We spent some time praying for Latvia tonight - for people, places, camp, etc. Steve and Debs made up some prayer cards with pictures on them so we could put faces to names and see what we were praying for. It was good to see some pictures of people I know and places I've been; I'm looking forward to finally getting back there, and hopefully seeing some of the same people this year.