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Last Day in Montana

I have spent the past three days in Montana for work. We are here with 74 high school youth. Everyone is having a great time skiing and snowboarding. We get to ski at Bridger Bowl for two days and Big Sky for one. I love Bridger the best, I don't even go out at Big Sky. Unfortunately, we have a couple of sick kids. So after a trip to the ER late last night/early this morning, I am here at the hotel playing doc for them. I did get one day of snowboarding in and I love it! I wish I was better at it, but I suppose only snowboarding once a year doesn't do much to improve my skills. Next year hopefully I will get two days in. We leave tonight at around 4 pm to bus home overnight. Sleep is going to be my friend tonight!

I wish I could claim this picture as my own, but I can't. It is one of my favorite pictures that I have seen thus far this weekend. It is really beautiful here.

Snowboarding in Montana

Yup, that's me!

Monday Mornings!

well, it is a cold Monday morning here in Minnesota. I'm not really motivated to do much today. I'll head into work around noon and work till around 9, so that is a pretty full day. I'm working kind of light at the beginning of the week because I will work Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday absolutely full days and Monday morning. I'm getting all of my blocks in this week...actually, full time is 11-13 blocks per week and this week I'm working 17. So I'm not too worried about taking the morning off, or some time to spend with Taylor when Megan goes to Virginia.
We had a great weekend...fun birthdays and good to spend time with family.
Have a great week!

Taylor Jan ??

So I am really behind in everything. These are pictures of Taylor from sometime in Jan. I totally forget to take any on Friday. Oh well. She's still cute!

Dad's Birthday!

It is funny that my only pictures from Dad's birthday are of Taylor...but then again, it was her first time at a bowling alley. We had a great time and all bowled fairly well. It was nice to do something together. Mike and I are pretty lucky that our familys are close by.

Tampa

I had a great time in Tampa. Here are some of the photos I took. The first is of what most of my weekend looked like. Driving on the freeway with bad drivers in the rain.

These are from when we were walking to the synod dinner. It was a nice walk and the fish and chips were great!

We went out to dinner at Jacksons. I would highly recommend it...the food was outstanding, as was the wine and company.

I was craving ice cream and asked the concierge to recommend a place. He was of no help, so I asked the bellhop. He was fabulous and recomended a gelato place at the mall. Gelataria del Duomo. Simply amazing gelato. I loved the nutella.

of course, super mario gas was a must stop.

And finally, after being bumped from our flight and having to stay an extra night, we got to fly home first class the whole way.


Glad to be home! Even if it is cold, there truly is no place like home.

Tampa

I'm in Tampa for a youth workers conference that is going great! Unfortunately we don't have internet in the rooms, so I haven'd had much time to post. It has been good though, and we still have one day left.