Our Midwestern Tour

It has been a crazy couple of weeks/weekends for us. Kyle went home for a bachelor's party. The next weekend we went on the all church retreat, which was awesome. That was followed by a funeral in Florida. And this past weekend we were in Illinois for two weddings. It was wonderful to be able to see so many people, but exhausting. We also managed to squeeze in a a couple of baseball games. I've also had two job interviews in the past two weeks. I decided I would just post a couple of pictures of the various events. Unfortunately, the order of the pictures is a bit jumbled.


This was just before I started the ropes course during the church retreat.

This is the new bridge the built over the slough. It makes for a nice short cut. We were able to visit the campus before Joanna's wedding.

This is from the new back deck at Carlsson Hall. Kyle lived there as a sophomore, but it is now an academic building. His old room is now an office.

This was at Joanna's wedding. We had a great time catching up with friends from Augie.

We got a nice picture of some of the Augie people. Joanna showed up right after we took this picture, but I don't have a copy of that photo.

This was at Mark and Ilea's wedding....the day after Joanna's and back in the Chicago area. It was beautiful. However, the ceremony was outside and I managed to burn my shoulders.

At the reception.

Our first Nats game of the season. We went with the church and it rained. But we still had a great time.

Our seats for Strasburg's start. It was an awesome game. We went with some friends who had company tickets :)

On our drive to the the QCA for Jo's wedding we were treated to a real Midwestern storm. We had to pull over because visibility was so bad, not to mention that our car was shaking because of the wind. We didn't mind. Storms on the East coast are a bit wimpy.

This is part of the high ropes course on the retreat. Unfortunately the trees make it difficult to see the entire course. It was quite extensive and takes the average person about 45 minutes to complete.

This was Kyle walking across the swings. It was pretty far out, so it's a little fuzzy.