I woke up at 5:00 am and was at our meeting place at the JBC parking lot at 6:00 am. Four of us headed to the Portland airport, boarded the plane at 10:00 am, and landed in Anchorage at 2:00 pm. We boarded a small six-passenger airplane and landed in Kenai, Alaska, at 4:00 pm. We were picked up and drove  30 minutes to the Funny River Fishing Lodge. We unloaded all the stuff we had brought, and I got my stuff together and headed to the Kenai River to fish for sockeye salmon. I fished for two hours and caught nothing, so I am in the lodge eating popcorn and typing this blog. I will be here for three weeks, fishing for salmon and halibut and helping other guys catch fish. This is probably my favorite three weeks of the year. God truly blesses me for being able to do this every year. This is my 25th year here, fishing and helping others fish. I expect to catch over a hundred sockeye salmon and dozens of halibut. Life doesn’t get much better than that. God has indeed blessed my life. I have a wonderful marriage and wife, eight exceptional children, 28 grandchildren, a ministry of over fifty years that is God blessed, and I get to come to Alaska and fish. Thank you, Lord, for blessing my life.