Cruise! (Quite Late, sorry)

I never posted anything about our cruise, so here are a few fun pictures from it!

 Garrett found a sushi bar!

 There was mini golf on the top deck.

Cabo

 Whale watching.  This was really cool.

 See the tailfin?

 Arrrrrrg he's a pirate.

 This was really fun.

 We stole some sandwiches from the ship for our lunch at the beach.

Beach at Cabo!

Bike trip

Driving through the warm desert while listening to Angels and Airwaves may be my new obsession.

Me and a good friend did a loop down through Delta UT then through Ely NV where he grew up, then back home through Wendover.

Now I just need a cruiser so Amber can come along.

For the Strength of Youth Idol?

I'm a youth leader at church, and one of our activities was to put together a video with the theme:  "Arise and Shine Forth."  We had to incorporate a flashlight, a chicken, hot tamales, and For the Strength of Youth."  This is what happened.

Another Book Quote

"My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother."

Louisa May Alcott
Little Women page 119

I wonder what sort of tale we've fallen into?

"But I supposed it's often that way.  The brave things in the old tales and songs...adventures, as I used to call them.  I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of sport, as you might say.  But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind.  Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it.  But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't.  And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten.  We hear about those as just went went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end.  You know, coming home, and finding things alright, though not quite the same...but those aren't always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in!  I wonder what sort of tale we've fallen into?"

JRR Tolkien "The Two Towers" from The Lord of the Rings saga.  Page 696

Cruise time!

This is my attempt at blogging again.

Amber got the $500 subway gift card in the mail and booked the cruise to Mexico.

On top of all that, she bought me a cactus for Valentines day.

Happy Valentines day sweetheart!

Merry Christmas!

Garrett's friend asked him to be Santa at their family Christmas party.  He did a very good job.

Have a very Merry Christmas!