Adventures
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Merry Christmas! – My Digital Christmas Card
I hope this letter finds you all well, and enjoying celebrating Christ’s birth with loved ones. I had a busy year myself and I realized it was time for me to start some of my own traditions. Namely writing a letter – but since I already have a spot to write here I thought I would just send my Christmas greetings from here. Outside of swing dancing throughout the year, getting in some great pick up hockey and writing here’s what’s been happening this year. I started off this year early in the morning and went on a solo trip to LA on the 1st and stayed there until the…
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It Was Objectively Interesting
It’s been 4 weeks since my adventure at The Objective Standard Conference (TOS_Con) in Park City, Utah, but I just realized I hadn’t written a blog post about it yet. I t was such a great adventure, and although, smaller, longer, and different from FEE-Con it was also very valuable. I learned a lot. I also had a ton of fun, that said FEECon was a better conference, it helped that there were more young people there. TOS-Con had some amazing and unique sessions. Some were more interesting to me than others, and some I admittedly didn’t enjoy but there were others I was ecstatic about. I used to hate…
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A Treat for the Season
I love water skiing, even though I quickly became scared of it when I was little. After a little encouragement and an alternative method for trying came about and worked, I got up. My Mom is a terrific skier, even after two years of not getting behind a boat, and even though she’s not 20 anymore she can still get up within a few tries and drop a ski within 10 seconds like its no big deal. Every time she’s up she’s grinning ear to ear, I honestly love watching her ski, because the joy is so contagious. My Dad is also good, I will also add! I think seeing…
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A Small Comunity with Room for Everyone
I got my college internship from being tagged in the comments sections of a Facebook post… and then interviewing and getting the job. It was an awesome summer and I loved nearly every minute. When I was on camp staff I heard that despite being larger than the camp I grew up going to they were still moderately small but the director mentioned that they’ve never turned a kid away over numbers, they’ve always made room, whether by making cabins out of two smaller rooms, or having one or two more campers in a cabin, they’ve made it work. So upon hearing that I got to talking with other senior…
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Truly Family Camp
Other people: “So when have you met some of your extended family?” Me: Well, I had a blast counseling my 3rd cousin at Koronis Bible Camp, and hanging out with other extended family members there. Oh, and I love going to camp with my grandparents, I love visiting their cabin at camp while we’re all there. Oh, and my 2nd cousin has done a great job at directing, and my cousin once-removed is an awesome registrar…the list goes on! I grew up going to a small family camp nearly every year of my life. My family has been going for three generations to that camp, and I’ve loved every year.…
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Do As the Locals Do
Back when I was in college my family took a trip to Milwaukee. It was a fun trip. We saw some new things, in a new place. The three main memories I have from this trip without looking at photos are a creamery tour, a brewery tour, and the Harley-Davidson tour/museum. If that doesn’t describe a trip to Wisconsin well I don’t know what does. I also realized as I typed this that we also went on the Pabst Mansion tour, and that was really cool as well. Clearly, this isn’t all of what Wisconsin in about, but it’s still an intrinsically important part of the state from what I…
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The Windy City and the Gladers
Back in junior year of high school, my family took our first week-long spring break vacation. It was a trip to Chicago and it was really fun, if not a little cold too. We drive the 7-hour car ride on each end of the week. We stayed at a hotel outside the city. We experienced everything from famous cuisine to the transit system to great museums, and even top floor views. We went shopping on the miracle mile and found various unique versions of famous places like McDonald’s. During this trip, we took a day trip to Springfield and visited President Lincoln’s home and plot. It was an interesting place…
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Ometepe and My Family
The summer after I graduated high school my family took a missions trip with others from our church to Nicaragua to help with kids after school program, among other things. This trip was a wonderful, and unique opportunity for our family. We enjoyed planning for and serving on this trip. From the beginning, this seemed like an intriguing opportunity because we would all get to try our hand at missions work together. During the trip, we helped serve with a missionary couple on the island of Ometepe. It was a beautiful place and we got to contribute with the rest of the team from our church in helping with the…
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Gladers in Colorado
My Dad’s side of the family has had two big family reunions in my lifetime, one was back in the nineties – so I barely remember it, but it was in the town I lived in at the time but the other one was when I was about 13. I really enjoyed that one because it was in Colorado, so we made a vacation out of the experience, and got to have it with so many cousins! It was just my immediate family driving to and from Colorado, but we met up with everyone not only at a great resort near Rocky Mountain National Park, but we also saw my…
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Naturally Faithful
My parents took my sister and me on a trip to Yellowstone in the summer of about 2008. Here’s why it was great and what a kid (like myself at the time) can learn from this kind of trip. By the way, I’m officially calling this series, lessons from family vacations, probably. This was the longest trip I had been on at the time, between travel time, distance, time in the park and otherwise. My sister and I got the chance to see some of the wonders nature has to offer – up close and personal. We got to see some of the most unique and fascinating things right in front…
