Today I flew out to Denver to attend the Adventure Preview at Denver Seminary. I have been accepted into their Master's program in Outdoor Leadership, but I am still discerning if it is the right path. What better way to figure it out than to see the place, right? The morning started out very frustrating as I tried to book a rental car and EVERY place was sold out. I finally found one starting tomorrow, but the price more than doubled while I tried to book on mu...

We arrived in Atlanta, GA today for the ACS Technologies Ideas to Impact Conference. The administrative staff from my church attends this conference whenever it is close enough for our budget to allow. We have attended for the past two years (see blogs and photos from Louisville, KY and Cinncinnati, OH). It is a great conference for ideas and really wonderful software training. Yes, I realize not everyone is excited about software! We stopped at Flip Burger Bout...

Four Park Hike Yesterday I led a rescheduled hike for TTA. My original plan was to have the hike on Super Bowl Sunday before the game (because I'm such a big Football fan! Haha!). My plan was to do an urban hike connecting four parks downtown: Bicentenniel State Park, Victory Park at the Capitol, Public Square Park, and Muse Park. Since we had four parks, I was going to divide the hikers into teams and have challenges at each park representing the four quarters ...

This weekend singers from all over the South Eastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church gathered at Lake Junaluaska for the 25th Annual Music Weekend. I went with a couple of ladies from my church. We had a beautiful weekend with fabulous choral directors. I had forgotten how fun it is to work on challenging pieces with a great director.

My friend, Scott and I have been keeping our eyes out for a ziplining deal for a while. We finally both managed to get a Groupon a couple months ago, but we had to use it by Nov. 5. After comparing ours and Scott's twin, Matthew's schedules, we finally settled on today for our zipventure. Our adventure started out a bit rocky, as the zipline company did not receive our reservation. Somehow with the dogs barking, they did not hear that we wanted to zip at 1:00, s...