Dear Ones, Well we have started into the holiday season already! I say this only since I work at Sears in the tool department and they have been playing holiday music since November 1st! Oh well, so is the world of retail sales. It seems with the elections over now, that things are mellowing out a bit here in New York; I am sure that the entire country can take a collective sigh of relief now that the craziness of the election year is over. Whether the candidate that you wanted to win did or not, our country is still the [View Full Entry]

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God bless you all! I first wanted to say that having this way to communicate to all of our friends and family has been fantastic! All of your responses of love and encouragement have been so great. The kids love to hear from their grandparents especially and Clara and Sam now have e-mail addresses and have communicating faithfully to them. As you have heard, we moved into our beautiful home on Isle of Pines road; it has been a glorious Fall with the tree colors and the weather actually being in the mid 50s and sunny so far.........The calm before the [View Full Entry]

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Hello all. Well, we have our new home and address as of Friday night: 3217 Isle of Pines Baldwinsville, NY 13027 I will enclose some pictures of the area with this posting also; the area is absolutely beautiful! The trees are starting to turn and it is everything and more when it comes to the Northeast and the fall colors. Marsha and I have always wanted to visit this area during this time of year, so another need met. You will notice in the pictures that we already have a house full of furniture! Some of the people here that attend [View Full Entry]

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Hi all. Just a really quick note to all who haven't heard, we have been sent to Baldwinsville, New York! It is a suburb of the Syracuse area (upstate NY) and we are very blessed to be here! We are staying with Dan and Dee Davis who are the Region Coordinators for New York state. I will send more detailed entrys when we get our housing, get the kids in school, and get our jobs. Love to all of you! Jim, Marsha, Clara, Sam, and Hannah. [View Full Entry]

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On saturday, June 28, my family and I travelled to Syracuse, NY for my cousin Steven's high school graduation. We went to his parents house, my Aunt Mary and Uncle Darren, and their other children, Sarah and Brett. The family prepared food and then played basketball. On Sunday, the family went to my Aunt Cindy's house for breakfast and then the kids watched Monte Python and the Holy Grail. Afer we finished at my Aunt's house, we went to Marcelles Park, and had a barbecue. Many of the adults played horseshoes and the kids went to play basketball (again). My mom [View Full Entry]

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After having our original flight (Rochester to Philadelphia to Denver) canceled Saturday morning, we were left with quite the East Coast tour instead. Our adventures began in the wee hours of the morning with a snowy drive (courtesy of Jason's parents) to the Syracuse airport. We left the house around 4am and got to the airport just before 6am. We ever so patiently waited in line to check our bags and quickly kissed our snowboards goodbye as we sent them out on a journey of their own. We proceeded to the security check-point and after we were officially safe people we [View Full Entry]

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As a local, it may seem silly for me to write about "travelling" to a town only about 45 minutes from my hometown, but my goal here is not to write for myself but for others, and especially to write about the great places only locals know about. Syracuse is not much of a tourist attraction, but there are many great places to go downtown, especially on a Friday or Saturday night. Hanover Square is a great place to start, located on Water St., between S. Warren St. and S. Salina St. Featuring live music in at least one establishment any [View Full Entry]

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Greetings! I will be traveling to Brisbane, Australia in a few short weeks. While in country I am hoping to make regular posts, including pics, and maybe even some video (who knows). In the mean time I will mostly likely post a couple of reflective entries based on some of my most recent travels. The subject matter will include...but won't be limited to my senior design trip to Bolivia, on the Bus with the BSC women’s hockey team, Bolivia last summer, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and my short but beautiful trip to New Hampshire. Please enjoy! and if you have travel [View Full Entry]

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We stopped off at a place called Syracuse which is upstate new york on the way to ‎Niagara Falls. Its a University town on the former Erie canal network and although its ‎quite a big town its small by US standards. ‎ The hostel was a little strange, we were the only travelers there and the only other ‎resident was elderly and seemed ill. The hostel took up the first floor of an old house on ‎the suburbs of Syracuse and everything was musty and creaky. It reminded us of every ‎US horror film ever made and then on the first [View Full Entry]

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So I actually have a place to stay in Germany now!!! My family lives in Herzberg. It's in Lower Saxony, which is a state in the north. I haven't talked to any of them yet, but apparently I have a 15 year old sister named Isabell and a 20 year old brother named Sebastian. They are VEGETARIANS and have a cat. That is about all I know of the situation right now. Still, it is surprisingly comforting to know that there actually is a warm epicenter to all this madness that is about to pervade my life in about 2 weeks. [View Full Entry]

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