A weekend filled with Lebanese Food and Ice Skating

Saturday night, Sydney and I went to our Lebanese friend's, Sawsan and Ziad's, home for the evening with Jake, Bug Bug and Benjino. (Micker Macker's was at her first "official" sleep over that night.) We enjoyed a fun night of conversation, culture and food. So it was a great evening. Ziad and I have a lot in common such as sports and hunting. We talked a lot about that and also talked about their home country. Add Lebanon to many countries I want to visit before I leave this world. The pictures of Beirut that we saw makes me thing that a vacation on the Medditeranean Sea would be quite enjoyable.

Here are a couple of pictures I found from the web...





Anyway, that was Saturday night...

Last night... I surprised Jake and MacKenzie with a trip to the Ice Skating Rink... Our International Student Organization and Campus Crusade for Christ teamed up to cover the costs of skating... All we had to do is rent the skates. So, I brought Jake and Micker Mackers. We had a great time... I have pictures on my cell phone... but I don't have the adapter to download pictures. Our international students took about a zillion pictures of Jake, Micker Mackers and Myself. (If I can get a copy of a few of them from the international students, I will try and post some of them.) We were truly "rockstar" status last night. It was only Jake's and Micker's 2nd time skating... but they were having a blast. They now have these bars that kids can skate around with that help to support them while they are learning... Where were those things when I was learning how to skate 20 some years ago? I hadn't been skating since I was a kid... but I guess learning to roller blade in college has somehow made me a professional hockey player. Who knew? I had never been on hockey skates before... only figure skates... but I will never put on another pair of figure skates in my life... I think Jake and Mack were surprised how well their 'ol Dad could skate. Yep... if there was any doubts in their mind... their gone now... Dad.Is.Cool.