Hello friends and family! It has been a while since I last posted on my blog, but Iām excited to announce that I will be leaving in a few weeks to go on a mission trip with St. Pius X High School to San Andres Iztapa, Guatemala. While we are there we will be staying… Read More Guatemala Mission Trip
Our journey today started in Kansas City with our flight leaving at 4:40pm this afternoon. Abby is a teacher at Bishop Ward high school so she came straight from school. I already had the day off work so I spent the morning with friends and then had lunch with my dad. The most eventful part… Read More “It’s gonna be great!” š – Day 1 (Friday 3/10)
My apologies for the confusion on the blog post yesterday! Since I accidentally posted it early it sent the email out at that point. But when I posted the finished version it did not send out an updated email. So for those of you that may have missed it, here is the link to yesterday’s… Read More Bus, train, train, bus…Ā
HAPPY EASTER! This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad! For our Lord has risen from the dead, concurring sin and death, setting the captives free and winning for us the salvation of the world!! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! We got up this morning and had breakfast at the… Read More He is Risen, He is Truly Risen!!
We got up this morning and went downstairs for breakfast, then we went back up and grabbed our bags and checked out of the Institue (they had a room up front where we were able to leave our bags). Then we made our way over to Castle Sant’Angelo to begin our Pilgrimage to the Holy… Read More Doors of Mercy – Holy Saturday
Celina and I slept in a little today and didn’t get up until 8:00 which was fantastic, we have been going at it pretty hard these past few days so it was nice to be able to sleep in just a bit. Then we went downstairs for breakfast. Since today is Good Friday we knew… Read More Good Friday
We woke up this morning around 7:00am and I have to say that may have been the best nights of sleep I have had in quite a long time! Ā I am sure a lot of it just has to do with the fact that I hadn’t been able to sleep lying flat in 48 hours… Read More Pilgrimage or Spa?
The last we left off we had just boarded our plane. The trip was pretty uneventful, I fell asleep pretty quickly, but woke up for dinner and my free cocktail! š I’ve got to say, for airplane food, it wasn’t so bad. I had a chicken with polenta, Caesar salad, shrimp cocktail, crackers with cheese… Read More We made it!
We were up at 5:00 this morning and at the airport by 6. Flight took off at 7:00am and we went from KC to Atlanta. I was feeling quite tired this morning and just as I was about to fall asleep on the plane, the very nice girl sitting in the window seat next… Read More Here we go!!
I woke up this morning and could not believe that in less than 24 hours I would be on my way to Italy!!! It is crazy to think that I started planning this whole journey back in June of 2015 and now we are one day away from take off!! I started my morning with… Read More The Last Hurrah Before The First Hurrah
Road to Emmaus 