Four wonderful weeks of vacation. We planted the church, as most of you know a little

over three years ago and so for about four years now we've been going very strong in

this direction so we really need the break. It took me three

weeks to relax. We spent the first two weeks at the lake, at Lake House and then we spent the next

two weeks at Estes Park, Colorado.

And we were right at the base of the Rocky Mountains there and we drove on the highest paved

road in America several times, you know, while we were up there and when you're up that high you can

get dehydrated and altitude sickness and the last week I was there I got altitude

sickness and I was trying to

drink a lot of water and I figured out what it is that did me in I took water everywhere

I went except for one place one One place is the only place that I didn't take a bottle of water with me.

If I we went trout fishing in the mountains I took water. We played golf. I took water. We went hiking. I took hiking, I took water.

The only place that we went but I did not take water

was the outlet mall.

And I now know that it was the outlet mall that did me in.

It is a scientific fact that men cannot walk at a mall.

It absolutely wears us out. I can I can carry a bag. I can walk 18 holes of gaw, I can track a deer five miles, I can't make it to the third store at a mall.

It just absolutely wears me out.

That's what the benches are for.

I figure that out now.

You never see women sitting on those benches at malls

therefore the men and we went to this one store and they were going out of

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