Weekend in Connecticut

Last weekend I skipped my Friday classes and instead hopped on a plane to visit New Haven, Connecticut to spend a few days with Alex. I arrived Thursday night, when we went out for pizza and played pool at the graduate student lounge at Yale. The rest of the weekend I toured around New Haven, visited the Peabody museum, went hiking up "Sleeping Giant", went out for frozen yogurt, and many other fun things. As you will see in the pictures, I also got to meet Heidi, Alex's girlfriend. She is great. On Sunday, we went to Alex's church, got some Syrian cuisine for lunch, and then I headed home. It was a fabulous weekend - if any of you are interested in visiting, I have to say that my brother is an excellent host/tour guide!

While we're on the Ritsman love-fest train...

I know that I'm biased in favor of my friend, but this has to be the best wedding toast in the history of wedding toasts. Here's Mark Ritsman's toast at his brother Matt's wedding earlier this year.

I laughed, I cried, I applauded.

Don Ritsman's Website

Many of Yous Kids have met our family friend Pastor Ritsman at some point. He's been a long-time friend o' the Gesches and a pastor for decades.

Recent, he launched a website of free Bible Studies representing about 30 years of work.

It's a pretty amazing breadth of work, it's all free stuff, and it's a great site. Check it out here.

REAL candidate for governor of NY

It's kinda quiet around here on Yous Kids blog, so I thought I'd share a video that I recently stumbled into. This is a real candidate in a 5 person debate... he represents "The Rent is Too D--- High Party." At the very least, he stayed on point.

Imitation, greatest form of flattery

Last Friday, Kristin & I had the privilege of attending Trinity's "Jubilation" to hear our friend Kurt Schemper speak on life as a television producer. (He produces A&E's Intervention). The big question was, "What do I wear?" Not for Kristin, but for me. Digging back into the far recesses of my mind I recalled an outfit one of Trinity's most prestigious alums and decided to copy it. Here is what I wore: