Monday, January 18, 2010

Disney World, Mini Golf, Jousting and Parkour

Sorry it's been over a month since I've posted. I've been crazy busy over the holidays, but I'm looking forward to getting back on track with my blogging with the rest of this month. Here goes:

So this weekend I was chilling in Florida. Yep, I got to go to Florida. My parents invited Sam and I for a long weekend (Friday-Monday) in the Sunshine State. We stayed in a condo, continued our family mini-golfing tradition (I won!), got to go to Disney World and experienced this sweet medieval kingdom dinner and jousting reenactment arena thing (we even got to eat our food without silverware). It was an amazing blessing to spend time with my wife and family and to get out of this blustery mess and into some 70 degree sunshine. But that's enough making you jealous.

I was sitting on the couch in our condo yesterday talking with my mom and she made a sad fact known to me: she had no idea what parkour is. I was proud to tell her that one of our ISU friends (Tim Odell) is the president of the Parkour Club at Iowa State. Most of you have probably seen videos like this, but, just in case you haven't, hopefully this blows your mind and makes your day:

2 comments:

  1. I'm not jealous of the 70 degree sunshine. I like clouds....and snow.....and wind. Maybe I'm just weird that way.

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  2. GASP!!! Sadly (not really) this Grandma also did not know what 'parkour' is and had never seen such a video. Believe me, when you become a parent you will view this differently! :-) Scary stuff...though I used to waterski jump, do mixed doubles and gymnastics as a kid, it sure seemed safer than this!

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