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Day 3 & 4- We Now Bike

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I can’t help but compare everything to our Italy trip.  I forgot so much about Italy after I got home, that I’ve never finished my photo book.  This is why I must blog about this trip daily because my memory is not good enough to wait.  I am being reminded constantly by the other couples on this trip about Italy though.  Not every couple from last year is here this year.  It’s only five out of the ten from last year and three new couples.  I think the others expected the trip to be just as hard as last year. So far, It’s not even close!  It is so totally different that I trained totally wrong.  Last year, I trained on a hybrid bike (road/mountain bike) and only on Porter Rockwell trail a couple rides per week.  And then we were on road bikes only on roads up hills in the heat for 6 hours a day.  We earned our calories.  So this year I trained on only a road bike for long distances up and down hills.  Well….we are not on road bikes.   Continue reading →

Day 2 – Church and Bavaria

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We invited our guide and his wife to go to church. It was really really cool. I'll be honest and say, I didn't really want to spend the time going - but I can also be honest enough to say I am so glad we did. Singing hymns I know in English while listening to the german, hearing an exchange student from CA speak, the missionary from UT speak and the other one translating for us the whole time. I am proud of Master D being out in the world, knowing he's helping other people and having to step out of his comfort zone. What an amazing bunch of young men!

We invited our guide and his wife (Ron and Alfreida) to go to church. It was really really cool. I’ll be honest and say, I didn’t really want to spend the time going, I wanted to see as much of Europe as I could – but I can also be honest enough to say I am so glad we did, because this was a really great part of Europe to see. Singing hymns I know in English while listening to the german, hearing an exchange student from CA speak, the missionary from UT speak and the other one translating for us the whole time, was priceless. I am proud of Master D being out in the world, knowing he’s helping other people and having to step out of his comfort zone. What an amazing bunch of young men!

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Ragnar Rocks? or Ragnar Sucks?

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Is the glass half full or is the glass half empty?  For me it’s both and generally has something to do with lack of sleep and/or hormones in it’s possibilities.

Ragnar Rocks:

My very good friend Connie called and invited me to join her and some other friends to run the Wasatch Back Ragnar race. We’ve both been so busy that we haven’t hardly hung out for the last year, so I thought it’d be super fun!  If you don’t know what it is – it is a 198 mile relay race from Logan to Park City with a 12 member team, split into two vans of six.  Our team was called “Glitzy Girls”.  Our team captain, Tiffany is the girliest girl I’ve ever met. They needed another runner so I invited Cami to join us.  We were beside ourselves with excitement!  What a great girl bonding adventure – AND – Continue reading →

No School, No Sugar…great memories!

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My semester is over…phew!  After history of R&R, I am absolutely sure that I loath heavy metal in all its forms (there’s A LOT of them) as well as 99% of rap and I (somewhat embarrassingly) really liked the psychedelic genre. After digital photography, I am absolutely sure that there is SO much more to learn, but I have the best camera to do it. After Justice & International Affairs, I absolutely know I will not go into political philosophy and avoid it like the plague (my instructor made it as palatable as possible thank heavens).

At the beginning of the semester, I chose to give up sugar for 90 days and told B that I needed a reward to keep me motivated.   Continue reading →

My Present State of Gratitude

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It’s no new revelation that I love Thanksgiving.  On Facebook a bunch of my friends have been writing their daily gratitude journals.  It’s a great little way of expressing to 500 or so of your closest friends positive feelings.  I recently watched a movie called “I AM”, that was seriously the best movie I have seen this year (except for the Coldplay Live! 2012 — that I don’t necessarily think would affect everyone the way “I AM” could).  It explains how we are all connected, supported by science, by an ability to physically affect all life through our thoughts and emotions. Competition, isolation, violence and negativity is ruining the world. Survival of the fittest is a lie! Continue reading →