Category Archives: Events

Events, Family, Games, Health, Music, Work

Summer Programs You Can Join at Two Rivers YMCA

  • Swim With Craig – English Channel Swim Challenge (May – July)
  • Summer Camp
  • Swim Lessons / Private Lessons / Adult Lessons / Camp Lessons
  • Safe All Summer – Family Fun Day (June 10)
  • Learn to Row, Rowing Clinic (June 19-22)
  • Body Combat / Body Attack / Body Vive / Body Flow
  • Tee Time – Family Fun Day (July 15)
  • Slim Down Challenge (June 5-July 30)
  • Grynd, Advanced Hard Rock Yoga
  • Dodge Ball Clinic (July 10-13)
  • Pickle Ball Clinic (July 17-20)
  • Aqua Ex-Stravaganza, free water exercise classes (June 10)
  • Boy Scout Swim Tests (June 10)
  • Running Clinic (June 12-15)
  • Tumbling
  • Tae Kwon Do
  • T-Ball Clinic (July 24-27)
  • Paddleboard & Kayak Rentals
  • Going Gaga, Gaga Ball Tournament – Family Fun Day (August 12)
  • Personal Training
  • Silver Sneakers
  • So much more….

Events, Numbers, Trivia

Sixteen Things That Happened on the Sixteenth

  • April 16, 1178BC – A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War
  • February 16, 374 – 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
  • February 16, 600 – Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying “God bless You” is the correct response to a sneeze
  • November 16, 1380 – French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
  • October 16, 1492 – Columbus and his fleet anchor at “Fernandina” (Long Island, Bahamas)
  • September 16, 1795 – British capture Capetown, South Africa, from the Dutch
  • March 16, 1830 – Slowest day ever recorded on NYSE  (31 shares traded)
  • June 16, 1858 – Abraham Lincoln says “A house divided against itself cannot stand”, while accepting nomination to Senate
  • July 16, 1861 – Battle of Bull Run  (First major battle in Civil War)
  • January 16, 1870 – Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War
  • May 16, 1919 – Birth of Liberace
  • December 16, 1929 – Chicago Blackhawks first game at Chicago Stadium (Defeated Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1)
  • January 16, 1973 – NBC airs final episode of Bonanza
  • November 16, 1981 – Luke & Laura marry on General Hospital
  • May 16, 2013 – Human stem cells are successfully cloned
  • March 16, 2017 – Donald Trump’s second travel ban is blocked by two federal court judges

 

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Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus
Events, Family, Favorites, Memories, Nature, Travel

Places I Visited On My Road Trip of Awesomeness Earlier This Summer

  • Mount Rushmore
  • Wall Drug (Wall, South Dakota)
  • Gillette, Wyoming
  • Missoula, Montana (including dinner with 2 college roommates)
  • Spokane, Washington
  • Idaho (a gas station somewhere along I-90)
  • Columbia River Gorge
  • Horsetail & Multnomah Falls (Hood River, Oregon)
  • Portland, Oregon
  • Crescent City, California
  • Redwoods National Forest
  • A beach somewhere along the California coast
  • Trinidad Bay & Memorial Lighthouse (Trinidad, California)
  • Redding, California
  • Reno, Nevada (visit with the Lewis family)
  • Virginia City, Nevada
  • Lake Tahoe Overlook
  • Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah)
  • Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Casa Bonita (Denver, Colorado, with another college friend)
  • State Capitol Building, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Huxley, Iowa (Aunt & Uncle’s house)
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Columbia River Gorge
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Multnomah Falls
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State Line

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Wyoming
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Salt Flats

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Casa Bonita

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Events, Family, Favorites, Holidays, Inspirational, Memories

Twenty Three Ways My Kid Is Amazing (in honor of his 23rd birthday today)

  1. His sense of humor is unmatched.
  2. He’s smart and conceptual and thinks deeply.
  3. He never gets embarrassed. About anything.
  4. He taught himself to play guitar.
  5. A headbanger from the start, he now headbangs in his own heavy metal band.
  6. He’s hilarious.
  7. He is deeply compassionate and empathetic.
  8. He desires to make the world a better place.
  9. He works ridiculously hard.
  10. He desires experiences more than things.
  11. He sets goals and works to achieve them.
  12. He’s been “adulting” since the age of 19, paying his own rent and bills and way.
  13. He married his high school sweet heart and loves her with his entire being.
  14. He has a global outlook and cares about the world outside of his own.
  15. He laughs with his whole body.
  16. He carries things for me, (which is to say that he helps me any time I need it.)
  17. He programs electronics for his grandparents.
  18. He still loves old school video games.
  19. He has an inborn gift for music.
  20. He hugs his mama and tells me he loves me.
  21. He is never afraid to show affection to people he cares about.
  22. He has been through some things that would cripple lesser men, but the fires have forged him into a resilient and capable man.
  23. He is the best thing I have ever had a part in creating.

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Brands, Events, Family, Sycamore, Travel, Work

Stuff I did in April

2-7 – Went to Cancun, Mexico
9- Attended Premier whiskey tasting event at brand new Whiskey Acres Distillery
15- Paid my taxes
18- Celebrated Caleb’s birthday (which is on the 19th)
25- Healthy Kids Day at YMCA & promo for “Swim with the Mermaid” event

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Moon Palace Resort, Cancun
Events, Holidays, Humor, Numbers, Trivia

Friday the 13th

1/13/2012 – Cruise ship Costa Concordia wrecks off the coast of Italy
3/13/2009 – “Saw – the Ride” roller coaster opens at the Thorpe Park amusement center in England
4/13/2004 – Famous chef Julia Child dies at the age of 91
10/13/1989 – Dow Jones Industrial stocks take the 2nd greatest plummet as of that time
6/13/1986 – Twins Mary Kate & Ashley Olson are born
10/13/1972 – A plane crash sets off an epic tale of survival & rescue, eventually retold in the book and movie “Alive”
2/13/1976 – Figure skater Dorothy Hammill wins gold at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria
9/13/1940 – Five German bombs destroy the chapel at Buckingham Palace
6/13/1930 – England’s first nudist colony officially opens
7/13/1923 – California land developer Harry Chandler unveils “HOLLYWOODLAND” sign
1/13/1894 – America’s first patent for an accordion is filed
7/13/1832 – American explorer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft discovers the source of the Mississippi River
11/13/1789 – Benjamin Franklin writes his famous line “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”

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Brands, Events, Family, Favorites, Food, Travel

Awesome Stuff From This Weekend

  • Thursday night Matthew West concert at the Iowa State Fair
  • Friday spent with my son & soon-to-be daughter in law
  • Delicious Thai food for lunch
  • Bonfire with excellent friends
  • Lunch with the group
  • Lagomarcino’s caramels (2 of which are still in my freezer to enjoy)
  • Pool/Sun time
  • Good church service
  • Sunday afternoon nap
  • A visit from Kara