it's St Louis time!

I'm off to St Louis for a week! We'll be posting status updates, stories and pictures here: http://appletontruenorth.blogspot.com/.

And - prayers are appreciated. Mike, the youth leader, and I are the only two chaperons, which means I'll be doing all the driving as well as, well, everything :)

California is the place you oughtta be

So - I posted stuff to other, connected blogs, but wanted to mention it here, too!

Tom and I recently joined friends on a backpacking trip in the Sierras, and then for a couple of days browsing about the city. We posted the updates on the group blog, so you can check out pics and the overview of a fabulous time out there:
Sierra Mountain Crazies

and

San Francisco

And here's the follow-up post of the extra days I spent in California while the rest of the Wisconsinites headed back.

San Francisco, cont.