It's been a really great weekend. On Saturday morning, I took the kids to the park. Then my brother and I took JD camping. I went sky-diving this morning. And I spent the afternoon with my wife. It would be hard to top this.
This was JD's first time camping (my first time too). We did a backyard campout last November. JD enjoyed it so much that I decided to take him for real. We camped out at Sunset State Beach. I'd describe it as camping with training wheels. You can park right next to your camp site. There are bathrooms and showers nearby along with running water to wash dishes, etc. There's even Wi-Fi coverage at the campground - although we didn't take advantage of it. And, of course, there's the beach. We all had a great time - especially JD.
After packing up our stuff this morning, we headed down to the Monterey and I did a tandem sky-dive from 15,000 feet. I had originally tried to go last Saturday (and then again on Friday) but the weather didn't cooperate. Since I was in the area again, I gave it another try and the weather was perfect. It was a little scary going out of the plane but otherwise it wasn't bad. And the view from 3 miles up is amazing. Roughly 60 seconds of free-fall and then about 4-5 minutes of parachuting. SP and JD weren't there to see me land but they did get to see my co-worker land (along with a bunch of other folks).
Since I talk about God a lot on this blog, I'll mention something here. When the weather didn't cooperate last Saturday and again on Friday (after driving almost two hours each way), it definitely makes you wonder whether God is trying to send you a message. Here's the interesting question, though. There were four people in our group both days. So how do you know who God is sending a message? Perhaps it's one of the other people and I didn't get a chance to jump those days as a side-effect. Or maybe God wanted me to go today so SP and JD could be there. Or maybe the weather conditions were simply random and God wasn't telling anyone anything. It's impossible to know. That's the challenging thing with God. You can read whatever you want (or don't want) into certain events and convince yourself of just about anything.
Anyway, it was a great weekend. I'm glad I got a chance to spend so much quality time with JD and SP.
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5 comments:
Boy, that really does sound like a terrific weekend! I'm glad you, JD, and SP had time to bond and get better acquainted. I'm also glad you finally got to complete the sky diving. love you ap
That sounds like an AWESOME time dude!
It's not everyday that I get to stretch on the beach. Here is a photo of me doing horse-stance while at Sunset Beach. My form looks pretty good. It would make my former trainer proud.
Related to skydiving, Ralph Waldo Emerson once said "a great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." My freshman year in college, I went skydiving (static-line from 3,000 feet).
In case others are interested in the source of the Emerson quote, it's from "Culture," The Conduct of Life (1860).
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