Amerisuites Grand Rapids Airport

Tuesday 7/28

Photography day is here or was. Dan the model called to ask permission to bring a model friend along and so did. Started at 10 am and finished at about 2pm having made over 1000 images. Now the processing of those images, down to a very few, begins when I get back in town. Dan and Braxton both said it was fun and I had a good time as well. Time to think about supper and getting this place cleaned up. Tomorrow its back to da lake and …

Mon 7/27

Did the breakfast thing and then headed out for Grand Rapids home of ____. Am now at the cabin on Lake Whatever, some 16 miles north of GR. The sun has set, the sky is light gray and there is a very nice reflection of that sky on the lake surface. From where I am setting ...

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Right now I am up in Traverse City, visiting my family. On the 1st of August, I'll officially be heading out and starting my trip. I'm ready to go right now, but I just need to do some temp work so I can have some emergency funds in my bank account. I'm just itching to get out there and prove what I can do. I definitely want to make it to the west coast. San Francisco has always been a city I've been dying to visit ...

... Lauren’s birthday, she got to pick where we had dinner. Of course, surprise surprise, she picked a Sushi restaurant. But to our delight, this place was awesome! The sushi was phenomenal and they just gave us so much food! With full bellies, full wallets (mom and dad paid), and smiles on our faces, we headed out to go stake our claim in Rosa Parks Square where the concert was taking place.

The bands at the concert were pretty good, but as Lauren and I aren ...

... I choose to give to the poor locally but also in Haiti as well as it deepens my faith and hope in God. Although it is not easy to take a week out of a busy life I remember;
Deut. 15:10. You shall give generously to [your poor brother], and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings. I have been blessed many times over and feel a deep ...

... expensive than the hotels here in Grand Rapids--and it's in LONDON! It looks really nice, I hope it turns out to be a nice place. At least it gets good reviews. I've pretty much figured out what we'll do on the days we're not taking tours, and it mostly involves museums. Science museums, history museums...and a garden or two. I hope the weather cooperates like it did while we were in Paris, but I have a feeling we'll see at least some rain on this ...

... just the same as I remember. When I as 14, 15 & 16 my parents sent me to stay with my Great Aunt Dorthy and Uncle Harvey, Sr. at Walloon Lake. We went out for Italian food the best brochette we have ever had. Great seeing Debbie and Don again we parked our moterhome in their driveway.

... swim, snorkel, laugh, joke, meditate, baseball, soccer, chase animals, write a letter, go fishing, "Oh, hell!" (a card game), football in snow, snowboarding, tootsie jumble (homemade game), street ping pong (homemade game), climb a tree, climb a mountain, rock-climbing, hitchhike, read aloud to someone/be read to, catch (falling) leaves, write a Modern Oddyseus, make music, wrestle, teach, read/write/talk in French, practice handstands ...

... shooting passed, and nothing went in. At one point, Chris positioned himself towards the middle of our yard. At a 45-degree angle from the hoop, he dropped back like a quarterback and passed to the hoop. Bank! off the backboard, and in through the hoop. Reception completed, from 43 feet. "Yes!" Chris fell in the lawn, as happy as a dog rolling in something. Fifteen years of games together have fortified our competative juices as solid as iron ...

... a concussion. After that, my girl-protecting urges became of secondary importance to instincts of my own survival. Trees were all over the next hill, and the odds of getting a tree to the face at 25 mph seemed pretty good. So, I had Tracy go down first, to make sure it was safe for my face. Tracy braved the mountain all the way to the bottom, and, for this ride atleast, she didn't get a concussion. The third path was the most treacherous of all. The forest ...