bye Queen Susan and MissAravis! I hope you both have fun!

France, California, Idaho: sounds nice! Traveling mercies -- be safe and have fun!

I don't know how many of you have taken a car from New Jersey to New York, or vice-versa. But coming back from our vacation two weeks ago, my mom and I took a long and pointless detour through Stony Point, NY (20-25 miles north of NYC) to avoid a toll we thought we would have to pay in New York City. We were wrong. A bridge or tunnel from New Jersey to New York is $8. But it's only one-way. If you go east, it's free!

I"M BACK!!!!!

WOW! Atlanta was truly an awesome trip and worth every minute of it. The city is really easy to navigate as long as you are on the MARTA train system and NOT on foot. I was able to get around from my hotel to the the fencing venue and around with ease, but on Saturday, when I went to explore a mall and a theater, I got turned around five times, and ended up walking an estimated 10 miles. That affected my later two days of competition.

Summer Nationals was huge, and very top heavy. Each of my events had an average of 160 competitors and all of them were strong. The field was tougher than it was last year, but in two of my events, I had personal best performances, even though my placement results were not what I would have prefered.

But the real reason and decided factor for my trip was meeting with the directors of Operation Mobilization Arts Department. They came to meet me just as I got knocked out of one of my events, and we had 2 1/2 hours over lunch to talking about my ideas on how to use fencing as a ministry tool. They absolutely loved everything I had in mind, gave me some feedback on how to take a next step, and are going to explore options on how to get my presentation out from my local groups to a larger scale show. They are fully on board with seeing this take shape, something I have not seen from anyone else until now. I'm really excited about seeing how the follow-up takes place and what happens down the road.

I wrapped up my trip with a dinner with a former teacher of mine that just so happened to be in the area at the time and I got home at midnight last night after 15 1/2 hours in an airport/airplane. It's so good to be home.

Oooh, been a long, long time since I posted in this thread....
I will be gone from the evening of July 22nd to the evening of July 29th. During that time I will have little to no internet access.
FYI!
Going to Oshkosh Wisconsin to see the planes.

I'm back, goodness that was an eventfull trip, the sea was great, very clear and pleasant. We had rain for the first week, but it was terrible hot the last week though. My back is all sunburned it is nice to be back though, I missed you all here

goodbye fantasia_kitty, we'll miss you

Welcome back FenceforJesus and Wild Rose! Missed you a lot! .

Hi, everyone!!! Like wild rose said, we're back from vacation! Missed everyone tons! Glad to be back!

welcome back, Fencer!
welcome back wild rose and Narnian_Archer!

I got back from California, Los Angeles this Saturday and I was happy to be able to come on here around breaks for a few minutes or so. Now I miss California because it was just so fun, but glad to be home and can get the chance to come on here whenever like those good times. lol!

To all who came back from various journeys or "voyages" LOL, Welcome back!!!! Missed you all! .

We (Me, Narnian_Archer, and De_De) are leaving again for a camping trip with our family, going to leave tomorrow early in the morning and should be gone for a bit more than a week. Will miss all of you here, see you all soon

aw, bye wild rose Narnian_Archer and De_De! I will miss you! we all will! hope you have tons of fun! have a safe trip!

I'm taking a break from the internet for a week...be back on Sunday.

aw, by HH! have fun! we'll miss you!

Just a note to let you guys know that I won't be posting as often. I will be posting here and there, but not as much as I used to.

kittengirl