Busy Spring

In the beginning of April, we took a couple groups of people to the Okefenokee Swamp in Southern Georgia. We met wonderful people who had a great time with us canoeing in the swamp. Each group got to see lots of wildlife; including alligators, birds, deer, a gopher tortoise, toads and frogs and even snakes! Perry, who helped us lead the trip, is a naturalist, so he taught us some neat information about the animals and plants that we saw. We got some really cool pictures along the way. Canoeing in the swamp is a lot of hard work, but it is also fun. Sometimes the alligators go right under our canoe, that can be exciting. One night when we were sleeping on a platform in the middle of the swamp, there was an alligator staying right under us! We all had a good night's sleep being serenaded by the cricket and pig frogs. We canoed a total of 45 miles.

We've had a lot of rain here in Ohio and at the Creation Museum during the past couple of weeks. It's rained so much that the Ohio River was over it's banks. We've had a hard time getting the grass cut because of the rain.

Buddy's written quite a few songs recently. Most of the songs are about Noah and the flood. We've recorded them in our home studio to see how they sound and hope to be able to go to a recording studio sometime. We think people will really like the songs. There is a lot of teaching in the songs.

We've also been working on our new video, Amazing Adventures. We're really happy with how it's turning out. Last week, we headed to the Creation Museum for the day to work on recording some background music for the show. We're finished filming and the AIG crew are putting the final touches on the show. We are already making plans for our next show which will be in the swamp and Everglades.

Spring is finally here!

At least spring is here according to the calendar. We had a couple of days of nice weather, but then it turned cold again. It's even been snowing some here in Ohio. We are ready for warm weather. We've really been enjoying seeing some of the birds that have migrated back to Ohio. What an exciting sign of spring! It is so enjoyable watching birds. It's especially fun observing birds as they eat out of our feeders. They are such amazing creatures. We also have a deer feeder down by our pond, and quite often we'll watch as a few deer cautiously come down from the woods and feed on the corn. A few weeks ago, we worked on filming more of our new show for children about dinosaurs. The film crew came out to the cabin and we had a fun time going all around our property so we could get some really cool shots. They even took some shots of Buddy in the canoe in our pond with Cricket, our English Setter. It was the first time Cricket had ever been in the canoe before, but she did very well, and neither of them fell overboard! Another day we drove to some cliffs that are nearby and Buddy rappelled down them. Buddy's favorite part of filming was when we went to the airport, and he got to ride in a Piper Cub. It's actually the same plane we used when we filmed the Creation Adventure Team movies. This past Sunday (March 27th), Buddy spoke at our home church, Perry Chapel. He shared with everyone about our Africa Missions Trip we took back in November. He showed quite a few photos of our trip. Everyone seemed to really enjoy it. (Over on the sidebar you can click on our African Missions Trip Photo Albums to see lots of really neat pictures.) We're at the Creation Museum this week. This weekend (April 1 and 2) Buddy will be doing his workshop, African Animal Adventure, two times each day, and he'll also be doing a music concert each day. We just started doing the African Animal Adventure workshop in March, so it's brand new. We like to do new workshops every few months so that when people come for a return visit to the Museum, they'll always have something new and exciting to do at our workshop. We've been having a lot of fun with the workshop. It's so cool being able to teach whole families about the amazing animals we saw when we were in Africa last year. If you come to the Creation Museum, make sure you check out when we will be doing our workshops. We'd love to see you there!

Greetings!

Just wanted to update you on what has been happening. On Sunday, Feb. 20, Buddy spoke to some of the children at our church. He gave his talk, "Dinosaur Detective" which is geared especially toward children. The kids seemed to have a fun time and did a good job answering questions at the end. Their teacher, Mary Moore, has been going over AIG material with them, which is encouraging. It is so important to teach children the truth of God's Word from a very young age.

On Monday, we headed to the Museum. Each day Buddy did his "Pterodactyls, Flying Dragons" workshop and he also did his Creation Musical Adventure Concert. This was the last week for the Pterodactyl workshop. We will be starting our new workshop, African Animal Adventure, on March 22nd.

Buddy spoke to the AIG staff on Tuesday morning and shared about our trip to Africa in November 2010. The staff enjoyed hearing about the trip so much that Buddy ended up giving the talk the next day to the museum staff. We will be using a lot of the same pictures and information from that talk in our new workshop.

On Thursday morning, a young man named Daniel Knudsen was the guest speaker at our staff meeting. He showed the staff an autograph that Buddy had signed for him when he was just a boy in one of our workshops. It's an honor to get to meet men and women who have been impacted by our workshops as children. Daniel is the Director of an upcoming film, "Creed of Gold". You can find out more about it at http://www.creedofgold.com/. Thursday evening, we went out to dinner with Ken and Mally Ham, Steve and Trisha Ham, and Dr. Tommy and Elizabeth Mitchell. We enjoyed it very much with good food and great fellowship.

We traveled to Lansing, Michigan this past weekend to speak at a church retreat. There were probably around 250 people there. We met so many brothers and sisters in Christ. On Friday night, Buddy spoke on Noah's Ark, then on Saturday he did his talk on Dinosaur - Separating fact from fiction. For supper on Saturday the church ordered pizza, chips and pop for everyone. There was a lot of food! They also had a very yummy dessert, it was a moist brownie with peanut butter icing! Saturday evening, Buddy did an hour long concert, including his songs, "I Don't Believe in Evolution", "Soar", "Billions of Dead Things", along with a mandolin instrumental and a dulcimer instrumental. He also sang one of his newer songs, "If Heaven Had a Window", which is about his Mom. After the song, we showed a picture of her. Everyone enjoyed the concert.

Sunday morning Buddy gave his "Relevance of Genesis" talk and we headed home. We had great weather on the way home. It was the drive to Michigan that was difficult. We left Friday morning with ice and snow on the roads. We drove for about 60 miles at 25 mph. The trip took longer but we arrived safe and sound. Thanks for all the prayers. We praise the Lord for his protection.

Spring is Coming!!

This has been a hard winter with lots of ice and we are ready to see the spring birds! This week we had a Towhee (ground robin) visit our feeder for the first time. We hope you enjoy the photos we have included. We still have ice but it has been warmer and it has been slowly melting.

We have been working on the script for our new children's video on dinosaurs. We are going to be shooting some footage at our cabin sometime in the near future. This part of the film will be centered around what the Bible has to say about dinosaurs and trusting God's Word.

We have also been working on some demo songs in our recording studio here at the cabin. Each song is a lot of work and takes a long time because Buddy plays all the instruments himself.

We have also been working on putting together a new children's workshop on African animals. It is going to be so much fun teaching boys and girls about the amazing animals in Africa. For the craft, we are going to show them how to draw a really cool lion.

This past week we went to the museum to check things out in our RV. We are going to be at the museum the week of the 21st, so we wanted to make sure everything was working. While we were down in Kentucky, we had dinner with Ken and Mally Ham and Steve Ham (Ken's brother). It was an enjoyable time as we always have fun when we're together.

We are on Facebook now. If you haven't already checked us out, please take a minute to see what we are up to. We put a scripture verse on every day along with fun facts about animals, and great pictures. Go to www.facebook.com/aigbuddydavis. We look forward to seeing you there!

What's been happening the last two weeks!

Early Saturday morning (Jan. 22), we left for Ripplemead, Virginia, where Buddy did a Wild Game Supper on Saturday night and spoke twice Sunday morning. It was cold when we left home, (minus 6, which is chilly for Ohio), so we asked one of our friends to take Cricket, our English Setter, to his house. Cricket has short hair, so we don't like her to be in the kennel when it is so cold.

Ripplemead is only about five and a half hours from our house, so we made it there by early afternoon which gave us time to rest and set up before the Wild Game Supper. We stayed in a very nice guest house that was beautiful and had a good view. We were surprised to see that they didn't have as much snow as we did back home.

The Wild Game Supper was very big, with over 900 people. There were many different kinds of meat to choose from, including moose, raccoon, bear, duck, deer, and muskrat. We had never had muskrat before, so we decided to try some as we like to experience new things.

Sunday morning, Buddy spoke twice, doing his talk "Dinosaurs, Separating Fact from Fiction'; and also singing three songs, "Here Kitty, Kitty", "Soar", and "Billions of Dead Things". About 800 people go to the church.

We've gotten to spend some time at home these past few weeks, catching up on an assortment of things. It's always good to be home.

On Thursday, the 27th, we headed to the Creation Museum to do a video shoot. We're currently filming a new children's show on dinosaurs. After the museum closed, we spent about four hours filming in various parts of the museum, including the Main Hall and the Dino Den. We're very excited about this new movie and think that boys and girls will really enjoy it. I am including some photos of "behind the scenes". We also did some filming for this show when we were in Montana in September at a dinosaur dig.

We did two Dinosaur digs last year, and they worked out so well we decided to offer them again. We have two of them scheduled for 2011, the first one is July 11-15, and the other one is July 25-29. The Dino Digs are great for people who like adventure. Last year we found some neat fossils such as dinosaur bones, turtle bones, fish scales, and a fossilized fig. If you want to find out more about the digs, you can go to www.creationmuseum.org/go/dinodig. The dino digs are filling up, so make sure you check it out!

Our Africa Missions Trip in November 2010

Greetings! We have been very busy since our African missions trip but I wanted to share some highlights with you. We were so blessed to be able to go on this trip and want to thank Marsha McCarty for inviting us to join their church for this missions trip to Kenya. We arrived at our hotel at midnight and we were up and out the door by 8:30 am the next day.

We first visited a small school out in the bush and also did ministry with the Masai people. Buddy worked with the children at a church in Nairobi for two days singing and doing some illusions as well as teaching them about dinosaurs. We then traveled to Kijabe to do ministry there. We worked with two orphanages with over 600 children. We did crafts, singing, and teaching as well as presenting the gospel.

(Just click on this banner to see photo albums from our Africa trip.)
We have a couple of photo albums that we want to share with you. One is on the missions side of our trip and the other is the safari trip that we got to go on just before we left Kenya.

Buddy also did 12 class sessions with Rift Valley Academy. This is where the missionaries send their children to board for their schooling. It is an awesome school and we enjoyed meeting the students and teachers. He also did a music concert for them on Sunday morning with the children and some of their parents. The other team members went out into the community and ministered to them by bringing food to different homes.

One day we climbed Mt. Longonot near Kijabe. It was hard because of the altitude. We had to stop and catch our breath. That gave us time to look around and see giraffes and cape buffalo as well as some hartebeest. At the top you could see down in the volcanic crater. It was about 600 feet down and there were trees and grasses growing there. We could also see a puff of smoke now and then.

We got to go to prayer meetings in the homes of some of the Kenyan people. What a blessing to be able to share with other Christian brothers and sisters. The Kenyan people are so friendly and happy. We loved everyone we met!

A couple of days before flying back, we were able to go on a photo safari at Masai Mara. We love animals and this was a dream come true for us to see them in the wild. We were able to see the BIG FIVE which includes Cape Buffalo, Elephant, Black Rhino, Lion, and Leopard. The hardest to see was the leopard. He is a very shy creature. We saw lots of zebras, wildebeests, impalas, baboons, warthogs, topis, giraffes, hippos, and lots more creatures!

All too soon it was time to board the plane and return home. We thank everyone who was a part of our journey to Kenya. We appreciated your support both financially and your prayer support. It means so much to us. Once you have met the Kenyan people and held the children on your lap, you are never the same.