Friday, March 20, 2009

An Adventure

Posted by Abby Marie at 8:23 AM

Today I'm going on an adventure! My brother Ben is going to Hollywood to accept an award for the animation short he worked on his Senior year at BYU. His wife Valerie really wanted to go with him this time so they are flying me to their home in Alameda, California (near Oakland) to watch their 3 kids. I can't wait to see Xander, C.J., and Mia.

I love going to the airport. It is seriously one of my favorite things in the world to do. Perhaps is the shake'n'bake mix of people, cultures, lifestyles etc... It's also because I love coming in contact with people who are different than me. People who believe different things, love different things, do different things, wear different things...the list could go on. It opens my eyes to just how incredible this world is, and how individual each of us are. The cool thing is that God made us all, and even cooler is that He loves us all. How does He do it? I guess the answer is just that He is God. He can do everything and we can't comprehend it all right now.

BYU doesn't have a spring break so this is my made up individual spring break. I'm so excited!

1 comment:

Andy Porter said...

Have fun on your individual spring break!! I too am a fan of the airport scene.

March 20, 2009 at 1:29 PM

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