Well Bethlehem Revisited is over and I'm extremely thankful for it.  I love doing it and I look forward to it every year but after three nights of being up till midnight and awake a 6:30 it's nice for it to be over.  This year was a huge success. I'm not sure of the total number people who went through but I do know that Sunday night their was over 850 tickets turned in but with the people who don't have tickets they are guessing that over 1100 people went through, and that is was just Sunday night.  To put this number in perspective last year over the course of all three nights around 2000 people went through. It is such an honor to me and I know it is to many of the cast and crew to be able to help share the gospel with so many people.  I've heard one of the guides say more than once that it is one of the very few times anywhere that people come by the bus load to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. We did have a couple of things happen that could have turned out bad. The first was one of the propane lanterns caught fire when we lit it for the first time and we had to put it out with a fire extinguisher. This was also kind of amusing because there was six of us all standing around it watching but nobody was freaking out or doing anything. We were all like "Oh that's not good" and then just continued to watch it until someone grabbed the extinguisher.  Also one of the horses got his halter caught on a fence and when he tried to pull off he banged the fence panels together which spooked him.  As I ran over to try and calm him down the Roman soldier jumped off his horse to come get the halter off, right as group walked up.  So not only was a horse jumping around making a huge amount of noise there was no Roman soldier to issue the decree to Mary and Joseph. But all turned out okay.

Well now that BR is over it is time for firewood season to began but for that to happen its going to have to get cold and I hope is does. Since my dad and uncle landscape, they will continue working until the ground freezes.  Also since I sell wood when its warm people don't burn very much meaning I don't sell very much so that is another reason I hope it gets really cold, soon.