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2 Weeks in Review

Jun 21, 2007 Uncategorized

.:mood:. Glad to be Home
.:itunes:. I Want A Dog by Pet Shop Boys

My family and I have been gone for about two weeks and it has felt like much longer. It feels so great to be home.

Here’s a recap of our journeys, complete with photos. To keep this post relatively short, the photos are all thumbnails, click on them if you want a larger image.

The official reason for the trip was I got to speak at Leadership Training with GCM. This is a summer long program for college students in Virginia Beach and we have a bunch of MSU students there.

The unofficial reason for the trip was a week at the beach with my family.

One day while we were there, we met up with Karisa, who was the second High School student to work with Grace and I back when we did High School ministry. She’s now married with three kids. Her husband is in the Navy and he is deployed right now in the Middle East. Here’s a pic of Karisa with her youngest:

We also got to check out the Virginia Beach Aquarium. At first, we thought it was really lame, but then we found a bunch of cool stuff that we missed at first glance. Here are a few pics:

We got to hang out with the Freemans while we were there. (John Freeman is our Campus Director at Riverview.) Here are our kids eating purple ice cream that literally makes your mouth purple. Gross.

Here are some random vacation pictures. Make sure you look at the big version of the second picture.

On our way home, we stopped off at Quantico to visit Paul Kondrat. He is a Riverview person who is now a Marine. Here’s a pic:

Finally, we stopped off in Morgantown, WV, to check out the new facility of our sister church there. They have exactly the same attendance numbers as us, so it was interesting to see what they built. Here’s the outside of their building:

That’s about it with the summary. Now it’s back to the grind!