The Kenzers Family Blog

From Concourse C at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago:

Yesterday, Amy successfully defended her third and final comprehensive exam on her way to her long awaited Ph.D.  She need only to finish and defend her Thesis paper and she will graduate in December.  The amount of work and effort that Amy has put into this degree is indescribable here but feel free to ask her about it sometime.

On another note, I have been plane hopping for the last two days on my way to Rochester, NY and now back.  Flying in and out of airports leaves me feeling like a tourist trapped on a bus driving around Yosemite (a reference to something John Muir once wrote).  Exciting and interesting cities but I only get a small aerial glimpse.  Along those lines:

For the second time we went to Marine World. You can read more about my perceptions here. It was a lot of fun and wasn’t too hot. We went with Sharon and her family and my Dad and Barb.

Here are pictures from our boating trip and a recent picnic. Enjoy!

So after three years of living in the North Valleys of Reno, we just now realized how close Frenchman’s Lake is to us. Not that we haven’t been there before, I think we just go into some patterns (ruts) of not doing outdoor actives.

I don’t have any pictures uploaded at the moment but on Sunday the 15th, the four of us went out on Chris’s new boat. Amy and I tried our hands at wake boarding and did alright. We were both pretty sore last week though.

This last weekend we went took the plunge and actually went camping. We left Friday night after work and spent a rain drenched Friday night and a very nice Saturday night up at the lake. We went with Amy’s parents, Bill and Joy, and Amy’s sister and her family, Traci, Billy, Emma and Josie. Chris joined us Saturday night and we took his boat out again on Sunday. I did much better wake boarding this time but Amy didn’t get a chance - she did get to go out on the boat though. Billy and Bill also gave it a try. I think they will both be hating life this morning due to soreness.

I hope we get out there some more this summer. We may not get to go before Fresno but we’ll see.

BTW, If I let someone borrow my DC to AC power converter (you plug it into your car lighter and then you can plug regular devices into it, let me know. I could have used it this weekend!)

Sharon and I sat down last week and finalized our plans for Fresno. Both our respective families are going to Marine World outside of San Francisco on August 10th. Then we will roll on in to Fresno on the 11th. Can’t wait to see everyone!

If you want to see our itinerary, view it on Yahoo Trips.

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