A Ride In A D-25

On Wednesday I went with my family to see the Barnstormers Tour. Basically they have a lot of vintage biplanes from the 1920s that they have restored and now fly around the country touring and giving rides. I had the opportunity to purchase a ride on one. Here are a few pictures.

Here is the plane (that isn't my family). This is a New Standard D-25 Bi-Plane.



Getting ready to take off.



Climbing into the sky!



Jack Trice Stadium. The football stadium at Iowa State University.


Old dorms at Iowa State. My dad stayed in one of those (There used to be 4, but 2 have been demolished).



Looking at farm fields out over the wing.



More farm fields looking through the prop.



I thought this was a cool picture looking at the plane's shadow on the ground.



Another Bi-Plane giving rides, as seen from the air.



Coming into land. It was cool since they landed on the grass so as to limit wear on their tires.


Well, that was a fun ride.

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The End Is In Sight

The end is in sight, it seems to be so for many things.

The end of the semester is coming near, it is a welcome sight. School is enjoyable and interesting, but sometimes you just start to get worn a little thin and ready to finish up, and I am sure it will get even more so in the next several years. But, now is just the time to persevere to the end with God's help and continue to do everything as best as we can and let God do the rest, even when sometimes we don't get the results we would like.



But, now I must go to bed, so maybe I will update this later, maybe even more over the summer when I have nothing to do and nothing to write about. :-)


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His Grace is Enough

I know no one really reads this, but that is OK.

Recently I have really been thinking about how God's grace is enough for each and every day. His grace is meted out each day according to our needs, and it can be so tempting and hard to look ahead in life and start getting depressed and sad about what could be coming. There might be trials or suffering in your life right now, and possibly more to come in the future.

That is something that I have really been struggling with recently. I just pray to God everyday and thank Him that he will met out grace each day to handle whatever may come, and ask Him to help me remember that throughout the day as my mind tends to wander at times, and usually it wanders to the worst/extreme scenarios which can really get me down. But, I have no idea what the future holds and God does, so I just have to give it to Him and trust Him to provide and that everything happens according to His will and plan.

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