First Travel Bug to Come Home

Just before we moved to Xenia, my first geocaching travel bug made it home. I hide it in Atlanta Georgia in December 2005 while on business travel. It's goal was to come home to Nicholasville, KY. So after 15 months 6 states and 2293.9 miles Tigger made it home. I'm going to release him again with the new goal of reaching Michiana where I grew up. Perhaps I'll be able to retrieve him during a visit back home.

Travel Bugs Route

House Pics

235 2nd Street

Click on the above picture for a tour of our house/apartment. Danielle did a wonderful job of decorating.

Moving Pictures

Even with the best intentions in mind I failed to get really good moving pictures so here is what I have. I hope to post pictures of our house/apartment soon. Our trip up to Ohio was mostly uneventful as Danielle followed me in the Saturn. The Uhaul pulling our pickup truck on a trailer managed an incredible 6MPG. 26ft U-Haul truck in our drive way

Roger Helping us Load the truck

Ramp came level with the driveway

Danielle and Ginny & Gabriel

Welcome to Xenia

Just a quick post to tel you all know that Danielle and I arrived safely in Xenia on Saturday with all our stuff packed into a 26 foot uhaul truck pulling out pickup truck. I had a great first day of week. Danielle continues to do well with her pregnancy. More picture and posting to come soon. If you would like our mailing address please send me an email

First Baby Shower

Danielle had her first baby shower given by our church. She received many great gifts. Thanks!

Stamps

I finally used up all of my late Grandfathers stamps. So for the first time in several year and bought first class postage stamp from the post office. I bought the Wonders of America set of 40. So much for licking and piecing together 39 cents worth of stamps from the 50's through 90's for letters and higher amount for QuizzingGame Sales.

Baby Registry

Danielle and I have set up baby registries at Babies R Us and Target for our girl. We have chosen a name, but will wait until she is born to announce the name.

500 Geocaching Finds

This Tuesday I reached 500 Geocaching finds at an event in Richmond, KY. I was surprised to arrive there and find they had brought me a cake with my name it, as a going away gift. I really enjoyed the event talking with cachers I had met on the trail and at events. I have hidden nearly 70 Caches and watch over nearly 10 more in 8 Central Kentucky Counties. I will let other geocachers in the area adopt most of these caches. Most of my cache were placed to bring people to locations they would not of otherwise visited. I also tried to place caches in locations and counties that did not have caches already. The geography is Central Kentucky is very beautiful. I will truly miss the winding roads around the rolling hills. I hope to make it back to Kentucky for another event. Soon I will be placing a list of caches I think we the best in the local Geocaching Chapter www.geocky.org.

Ticket to Ride

On Monday we played the board game Ticket to Ride at Rogers and Nelda's. Ticket to Ride is a railway-themed German-style board game. This is another game the our friend Patrick introduced to us. We played the Europe version which I like the best because of the map. I lived in France for 6 month when I was in third grade. So seeing a map with the cities spelled in their native language is really neat. In case anyone wondered Roger was the winner beating me by just one point.

settlers of catan

Sunday Danielle and I were invited over to play Settlers of Catan at Jim and Liz's. This is an amazing game of strategy involving resources, building and trading. A great game of economics! Danielle did very well for her first time. I can't wait to play again with friends in from the Cedarville area.

Awana Quizzing & Belated Valentines Party

On Saturday February 24th. Cornerstone Baptist Church had it's first Awana Quizzing. We ended up having only 2 kids participate. They did fantastic job for each being on their own team. I think we where able to create excitement within the church for next year, hopefully with more kids participating.

We finished the day with a Sunday School belated Valentines party. We had food from Sonny's BBQ, which for the money is an excellent source of food for a large group. We had a lot of fun.

Amazing Grace Movie

Danielle and I saw The Amazing Grace movie. This is the first movie we saw on opening night. The theater was nearly packed. There were a lot of Asbury students there since Asbury College does have a significant involvement with the move. I was not disappointed at all with the movie. It captured perfectly to story of William Wilberforce's campaign to end the slave trade in the United Kingdom. If you have not already seen this movie it is worth seeing. Please support these kinds of movies the feature Christians and Christan morals.