Saturday, March 29, 2008


Went to Busch Gardens today for free - Salute to the Heros - it was awesome.

So I still love roller coasters... the people in the photo are (L to R) Karl Krause (euphonium) Colleen Krause (trumpet) Me (oboe, duh) and Chris Lang (euphonium). The Krause's are new and very cool, they are married and went to boot camp at the same time.

They don't know where they'll be stationed yet, probably here in Norfolk since it's the biggest band and all. The Navy is great about keeping them together though. Not all bands carry the Euphonium billet (kinda like oboe) but they work it out.

I want them in Newport with me! Oh well, I'll just have to make new friends - AGAIN. Dad says you get really good at making friends (and saying goodbye to them) when you're in the Navy.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

March Madness

Yay, March is here! We've had a few warmer days here in Virginia Beach, and Saturday I got to walk a couple miles in a beautiful park in Williamsburg. I've been wanting to go there to visit Colonial Williamsburg, but this time I went with Matt and his friend from college Patrick to a new disc golf course, tagging along their game with my camera in hand. Matt is my best friend in the music program, and besides trumpet his other passion is disc golf, and he's been ranked and is very serious about it! So, it was fun to watch and see him in action. Here are a couple of photos, more on the photo site http://picasaweb.google.com/jenlink.

Matt graduates in two weeks and heads for Japan immediately, so it just won't be the same around here pretty soon. We've been doing a great bible study on Psalms together, and musically he is very encouraging and good at what he does, so for those and many other reasons I think I'll miss him a lot!

I'm making plans for the move to Newport. My graduaiton is on april 11th, and now I'm hoping Dad can fly here for the ceremony and drive with me up the coast to Aunt Barbie's in Stamford, Connecticut. Mom has a conference in NYC the next week, so Dad was going to come out with her a couple says later anyway. I don't plan on flying back to San Diego at all, I'll save leave for later in the year that way. Anyone who hopes to see me in CA will just have to fly out for a visit! We can go to Boston and NYC in the same weeekend, and you can fly SWA into Providence, RI - only 20 minutes from me in Newport. I plan to buy a car soon... so come out!