The Hectic Adventure part 1

I like the word hectic. It describes a lot in one little word. Like a trip to Florida.

Yes, I went to Florida for spring break this year with my family, and just got back today. What a trip it was!!! I will download some pics here in a minute of all that we did. But the main reason we were there was to visit a university that my brother might be going to next year. It is called Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, and as you can see it is all about aeronautics. My brother is a rocket scientist or that is what he is going to be, and Embry Riddle was perfect for him. Everybody there was into what he is into. And while we were down there we decided to see the space shuttle launch. NASA will only do a few more so we didn't want to miss it. That too was AWESOME!!! I will go into details later. I am thinking of having more than one post to talk about this trip so don't worry, I will mention it.

This post is about the trip down there. We drove down, all the way through the night with out stopping once for a motel. I slept on the floor of our SUV and my siblings slept on the seats. Our parents took turns driving in the night while the other slept.

We were in WI Dells when the battery died and we had to get the SUV fixed. So dad got a county worker to stop and asked him about a place to have it towed to. (Meanwhile we kids goofed off.) The worker told us to call Platt's Garage so we did and a tow truck came from Platt's to tow us away. The driver said we could just stay in the SUV as he towed us and so we did! I had never ridden in a vehicle as it was being towed. Very fun. So we had a picnic while they fixed our SUV, and it only delayed us a bit. My brother and sister and I went exploring in the woods near by and found a cool tree. Very cool. So we left when the SUV was fixed and continued on our merry way. We went through lots of states and cities. But we finally made it after 30 hours in the car!! yay!! We made it to Daytona Beach!

Look for part 2 of the adventure!

The Grand Canyon is.....GRAND!

I just recently got home from the grand canyon with my family during spring break, and wish to share God's splendor with you. We really didn't have the money for a vacation to Arizona from Minnesota, but God made it work. My family and I started to put some cash in a jar labeled "The Grand Canyon Fund" to see if we could come up with enough to go. Well, some of us were doubtful, in fact, we all were doubtful at times that we would be able to go. But then, in just one morning, the jar had 500 dollars from only four members of my family, which showed us that God will provide if he wants it to happen.

We did go on to the Grand Canyon very soon after we gathered enough money to drive down, spend a few bucks down there, and drive back up. I had never been through the rocky mountains before and we were going to go right through them at Denver. I had never seen anything so beautiful before in my life. As we drove through the mountains, my siblings and I kept trying to take pictures as we went along, but the windows were rolled up and very dirty so we really didn't get any good pictures.

(This is a picture of our hike into the Grand Canyon.)

I had never really thought much about how pretty the mountains could be, or the Grand Canyon for that matter, and once I got there I was blown away at the idea that God created all the beauty of the mountains and the Canyons we saw with just a stroke of his fingers. It all proves the power, love and might of our God.

May God's passion fill your life.