A week in the Big Apple!
This week was a real surprise. In March, I was in DC for a parks conference for two days. Mary and I decided that it was going to be a rare opportunity to get back to New York. We hadn't been in about three years, and there just didn't seem to be any opportunities to come for a few more either. So we came and spent a somewhat cold two days walking the city, seeing art movies, and getting our last fix in. Until. Until we got the opportunity to cat-sit for a week in an apartment two blocks south of Read more…
St. Louis City Museum
Mary and I spent the long weekend with her family in St. Louis. And on Saturday we went to the most bizarre place in the world–the St. Louis City Museum. It's basically a giant playground made from things taken from inside the city limits of St. Louis. Not only a playground for little kids though. This sign is pretty clear. This is on the roof of the 11 story building. This is also on the roof. This is looking down on the 10-story spiraling slide from the roof. It's dizzying. I'm not sure how well you can tell what this Read more…
Back From The Great Midwest
I had a great time in Minnesota over the weekend. This was my first time visiting as an Alumni Council member for my alma mater Carleton College. I get to venture back twice a year! Once in the beautiful spring and once in the beautiful fall. Pretty much the best two times to be in Northfield, Minnesota. Along the way we got to meet up with Mary's family and also a couple Minnesota-based clients. So really, pretty great! Since it came just two weeks after the NYC/DC trip, though, I'm pretty happy to be off a plane for awhile. Lots Read more…
Back at Carleton for the weekend! Here’s my senior year dorm. My window was the top right one.
It’s a beautiful spring day here.
For all the Carls out there … Happy Friday!
Taken at Carleton College
Glad to be back in T-Town
The park conference in DC went off really well. It was the first time I'd been back to the city since I was in high school, and it was fun to be there. We had meetings with our legislators in congress (well, technically, their aides). We called on them in support of the US Paralympics committee, who runs a national program of providing adaptive recreation to wounded warriors in the communities around US military bases. Metro Parks's participation with them helps us to offer sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball and other activities, and it's a partnership that the Paralympics uses as Read more…
In DC!
We had a 4 hour ride from New York into DC today. We're excited to be here, because both of us haven't been since we were in high school. The parks conference starts tomorrow morning so tomorrow will be a very full day. We were really glad to add a couple days in New York onto the front end of that. It turned out to be a wonderful trip. Be back in Tacoma on Thursday!
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