Trav'ling Whisperer

I was reading an article entitled "85 Creative Ways to Save Money!"  The one tip that made me laugh was 45.  Remove soda from your diet - drink water, this will save hundreds of dollars per year.   I wondered if this was really true!  My dad and sister really love soda, but would they give it up to save a few hundred dollars per year? I will consider it from an American perspective. Assumptions: We can use Coke as the representative for all soda.   I know it's the most popular soda ever, and I know a few friends whose demand for coke is solidly inelastic. The average American drinks one can of soda per day.   According to a 2012  Gallup  survey, approximately half of Americans drink 2.6 cups of soda every day on average.  I decided to reasonably simplify this statistic. The average American eats out five times a week.   When I google searched "how many times a week do americans eat out", Google smartly responded with: "On average, American

Ah, I wish I remembered what book this was in.  This past Sunday morning, Pastor David Jones illustrated trusting in God with a story.  It goes something like this (and this is a real story)... A young girl was traveling with her father on a train.  In her seat, she found a poem, and two words in it were "sex sin."  The girl asks her father, "Dad, what's a sex sin?" Her father looked at her for a little while, and took down his luggage from the compartment above them.  He asked her to try and pick it up.  The girl says, "I can't, it's too heavy."  The luggage was packed full of watch parts they had purchased earlier that morning.  And the father says, "What kind of father would I be to make my little girl carry that luggage full of watch parts?  At this moment, there are some things that are too heavy for you, that you don't need to bear.  Until the time is right, I will bear the burden for you."

Sans the huge stream of Giants' fans this one Saturday morning!  I love clear days like this.

T and I went to Great America a few weekends ago.  K and D were supposed to meet up with us, but D ended up being delayed by work.  Nonetheless, it was fun!  TIP: get your butt there _early_.  We got there at 9:10 AM and went through all the rides before lunch time.  What what!!  K and D went around 3 PM, and they said they waited forever in lines. My Great America wristband.  Gotta ride the carousel with all the kids. Some of the water park! A view from the cable car of the park! A random view...I was just taking pics at this point just to take 'em. Here we go again...I must have thought it looked pretty. Descending. And...the best ride ever! Seriously.

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