Friday, September 19, 2008

that's right.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/080919/venues/11-100

18. Notre Dame Stadium
Location: South Bend, Ind. Opened: 1930. Capacity: 80,795.

Because no matter a school's tradition, history, legacy, fight song or cheerleaders, none can match the mystique of Notre Dame.

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that's right. Go ND.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

temptation

"Temptation is a suggested short-cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim -- not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good...God does not save us from temptations; He succours us in the midst of them." -Oswald Chambers

I only now begin to realize how low I am aiming.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

family trip continued...

more pictures are on facebook.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

relationships


"...God gets glory when two very different and very imperfect people forge a life of faithfulness in the furnace of affliction by relying on Christ." -John Piper

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

the west

long overdue, but some pictures from our family trip to San Francisco and back - in a car, of course (7/25 - 8/3).

Mt. Rushmore, SD. I forget the peoples' faces but you can look them up yourselves. It's a lot smaller in real-life than I imagined...oh well, still impressive that someone spent all that time to carve up that mountain.

Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, WY. It smells like sulphur everywhere. I actually got absolutely drenched by a geyser that day...hah.

Elk? Also in Yellowstone. Underexposure problems.

Guy painting at the Lower Falls at Yellowstone. Inspiration Point was closed because of road construction, so this is at Artist Point (I guess it is correctly named...). Gorgeous place.

Grand Tetons National Park, WY, just south of Yellowstone.

Sit-down restaurant at Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Tetons National Park. Food was OK but expensive. You pay for the view, definitely.

Sunset in Logan, UT. I think we're waiting in the parking lot of a KFC, stopped because someone had to use the bathroom (not me).

Great Salt Plains, somewhere between Salt Lake City, UT, and Reno, NV. Yes, my dad pulled over in the shoulder of I-80, and we got out and took pictures.

Hoover Tower at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Bells at the top of the tower. Everything else was boring.


San Francisco, CA, from the Oakland Bay Bridge, the double-decker one the collapsed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Taken out the backseat window of a moving car.

SunRISE on the way home from San Francisco. We left SF at 7AM on a Saturday...and got home at 11PM on Sunday. This was around sunrise on Sunday morning...that was not a fun drive home.

That's all...I have a lot more (I took about 800ish pictures, but a lot of them are bad) but it takes forever to upload on my slow internet.