Courtyard Denver West/Golden

... travel cheap when a mistake pot of tea amounts to 3% of the total trip expenses!) The rental car in SLC was an additional $40, but really was not part of the trip to Asia, as it would have happened anyway. (On the other hand, we would have paid to fly to SLC anyway for the game, so there was some value recovered there in the trip as well, since that stop was obtained for free.)

On the inflow side of the ledger, we each received a skykit on the ORD ...

Airlines

Best seat (Trans Pac): United NRT-ORD 747 new config lie flats
Best seat (regional): ANA PVG-NRT
Best meal: Thai ICN-BKK Green Chicken Curry (tie)
Singapore HAN-SIN Grilled Duck Breast (tie)
Best IFE (Trans Pac): United NRT-ORD
Best IFE (regional): Singapore SIN-PVG
Best Service: Thai ICN ...

Min skola

Vi går I en skola som heter University-park Elimentery skol. Har gar ungefar 500 elever I klasser fran kindergarten upp till femte klass. De fins barn från alla lender exempel mexiko, spinjen, libyen, kina, indien, maroko och japan. Spesielt med usa e, var vi en ska I skolan moste vi gå på led.

I min klass har vi science, matte, social science, art, English, music ...

... mementos, old photos, etc. and you wait in line for your 3 FREE BEERS! Not small ones either, large glasses! You could choose from Coors, Coors Light, Molson Canadian, Blue Moon, Killian's and a non-alcoholic Coors. You know I took advantage and Aunt B even gave me one of her's. I had quite the buzz going! The beer tasted so good because it was fresh from the keg which was fresh from the factory - I'll never taste beer that fresh again ...

... small red tower/kiva complex at the trailhead. The trail drops down into a small valley past the remains of farming terraces on the south wall of the
valley.

My next stop is Petroglyph Point trail, a 2.4-mile hike that starts near the Spruce Tree cliff house and continues to a series of petroglyphs carved in the rock. The trail has amazing canyon views and hawks ride the thermals at the same level as the hikers. Wandering among the high-desert pinyon ...

... on the palpable sense of drowning in stuff, too much stuff. And we still have two storage boxes in a warehouse, whatever the hell do we have in there anyway? Then there is the concept of money. By the time we reached our fourth or fifth currency, money in the physical sense, was a mere abstraction. We had pieces of paper with numbers, and the goods necessary had other numbers, match the numbers, and exchange paper for goods, but sense of value had gone ...

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Another day we went for a day drive in the rocky Mountain foothills west of Castle Rock through small towns. Found a little river for Bear to swim in & had lunch at a traditional American BBQ type place.

... Lao jungle, you don't really have much choice but to make a specticle of yourself and attempt to pantomime your questions to the driver while he looks at you like a crazy person. It is through these not-so-easy times that you find the real people out there- you really can rely on the kindness of strangers sometimes. It may not be easy but it makes me think of Calvin and hobbes, "It will build character, son." In a few days, months, years, I an going to LOVE the ...

This was my first day of the mission trip. From what I remember, it was mostly worship and hanging out for the night and getting ready for our assignments for the week. Since I don't remember much from it, I won't go into to daily detail. Every day though I went to a boys and girls club and hung out with kids all day. It was an amazing experience and helped fuel me to go on more mission trips.

... and friends to celebrate their 'double knot wedding' in Colorado. Considering the distances people were travelling it clearly made sense to have a week long celebration where people could really settle in and get to know each other. I arrived late on the 11th August after 19 hours of flying (including stopovers) and 3 hours of drive up into the mountains. Since the wedding party were already down in town celebrating the stag and hen nights I thought I would sit out in ...