Hunting

As some of you may know my time as a real estate agent and broker I spend a lot of my time "hunting". I hunt new ways to do business, new ways to create relationships, new ways to use technology, new ways to communicate and the list goes on. But this weekend I went on a different kind of hunt. A hunt for something to feed my soul; a hunt for quality time.

Some friends and I took our kids to a hunting camp in S. Alabama where we had four wheelers, motorcycles and golf carts made for trails. We built campfires, hiked in the woods, explored streams and showed the kids some interesting things they can find in the woods. One of my friends even showed them how deer will scratch the soil underneath low lying limbs and leave their scents "so the girlfriends know how to find them". I'm not a hunter so that was news to me as well. There's a toilet seat joke here but I'm not going there.

The most memorable moment for me came when it was just Donovan and I in the golf cart riding a trail. The smile on his face told me he was really enjoying what we were doing but what he said struck me even more. He said "Wow, what an experience". And I knew he really meant it. I knew that this day would be a day that he and all the other kids along for the weekend would remember for a long time to come. I won't forget it either.

At the end of our time at the camp I knew I had found what I was looking for. For today my soul is full. I'm already looking forward to doing this same kind of hunting again. And if my two sons have their way about it we will be back there next weekend. And as Donovan just told me this morning "it would be a great time to go again because it's President's Day weekend". I couldn't agree more.

I've included some pictures here.

Hunting Camp Trip February 2009