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Tuesday, July 8
Jet lag isn’t too bad. Slept good. Ready to roll.
My goal this week is to make cultural geniuses out of these students. Can they tackle a culture, discern what is good and can be used as a springboard for discussions of Jesus and what is not good? Are [...]

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Now for the rest of the trip…

Monday, July 7
2.00 am
We’re about to land in Frankfurt. It’s 11 am local time. I tried to sleep but the teenage foreign exchange student next to me had a bladder the size of a walnut.
As we come in for landing, I see the city of [...]

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Sunday, July 6
2.00 pm
No line at Lufthansa at all. Get seat assignment, head to security. No lines here either. Aim and kids walk me up to the line. All three kids start tearing up and crying. It makes me realize how much stuff we do together as a family, [...]

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We may have stumbled on a new family tradition.
The Purkapiles (okay - it was Steve. There was no way Camille was going to spearhead this…) were heading to Eldorado Canyon State Park. There was a moderately difficult trail to an old hotel site in early 1900’s.

Cayden made it…with [...]

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Tags: Aerosmith, Beatles, Guitar Hero, music, Queen, Van Halen, video games

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Go see Wall-E. Right now.
Go home, grab the kids and catch the matinee. It’s that good.
And you figure that the odds are stacking up against Pixar. I mean, at some point they have to release a dud. Animated films are always a mixed bag and studios have struggled for [...]

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