Highlights & Quotes!
I thought I'd update the blog this week with a run down of our top Highlights and favorite things from the past couple weeks on the road. Here they are.
1) A BLIND DATE with some students at a catalytic meeting in Minneapolis. The campus minister had to go to a seminary class last minute, and told us just to show up at the meeting. It was at 2:00 in the afternoon, and started out really awkwardly when the students walked into the room, stared at us for a minute, then asked who we were and what we were doing there.
2) AN AWESOME INTRO at an InterVarsity meeting in Whitewater, Wisconsin: The regular TTT stuff that isn't exactly what we do, then as they introduced each of us, they added these fun bits of info they'd picked up from dinner and conversations before the meeting;
Abbey- Had been on The Price is Right and won
Bryan- Created Facebook??
BV- Can break dance and makes his own pickles
Needless to say, our credibility was pretty high that night with the students.
We actually had a great turn out for 1-1's, too! 13 Girls and 11 Guys stayed after!
3) An unfortunate yet CLASSIC QUOTE from our very own Bryan Padgett at that same meeting:
"I don't want that underwear anyway, it makes my Facebook look funny".
He was talking about the habit of Sending, and how to save money to give more by not buying the dollar gifts on Facebook.
Yikes.
Comparable to his previous quote while in Oregon his first semester on the road. He was talking about the habit of Welcoming Internationals this time, and was telling the students that welcoming was so easy, because there were so many International students on campus there.
He said, "I bet I could swing a dead cat and hit someone from the 10/40 Window"...
It was a joke between he and Todd, his team leader (& TTT's founder). He's never lived that one down.
4) AN AMAZING WEEKEND WITH LEAH VANTASSEL, an IT Project 2005 Alum, and her family in Wisconsin Rapids! We got to relax, eat great home cooked food, go to the family farm, & Sunday family bowling. Thanks for a great weekend Leah!
5) Our 1st visit to a real WISCONSIN CHEESE FACTORY!
Cheese Factory and cheese curds!
The locals motto, “ Be easy with the cheese”.
6) SEEING A GUY GET CHASED down by undercover cops into the middle of the street, pressed up to the wall and handcuffed about 3 feet from me just outside the coffee shop window in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The guys loved the action.
7) Stood in one of the TOP TEN COLDEST PLACES on Earth
...According to David Letterman, and all the students at The University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. It's the bridge connecting the upper and lower parts of campus.
8) MET PAUL BUNYAN and rode his trusty friend, Babe
We think BV is an expert at riding large blue animals.

9) We WENT TRIBAL!
We got to meet some New Tribes Bible Institute staff from the Waukesha campus just outside of Milwaukee. We also got to stay there for the weekend. It was great housing and a great weekend of rest!
10) Visited JELLY BELLY Headquarters!
We took a tour of the factory on a train that drove though it. It was us and 20 small children and one annoying tour guide. Good thing we got free Jelly Beans at the end of it.

I also decided that trying the bad jelly beans is never worth it.
These were Moldy Cheese. I thought it was appropriate since we were in Wisconsin. I was wrong.

As you've seen, we've made some really cool faces in the last couple weeks, too. Here's a few more just for laughs.
The boys got $1 hot dogs at Jelly Belly because they were closing and they couldn’t pas up a steal deal.

Just kidding, but we did laugh at how clever the name was--cool for all those rebellious freshman, not so cool for the unsuspecting parents.
