My First Experiment with Movie Maker

Speaking of our train-cation...heres a movie of the "train" part of the trip.

Hope you enjoy!

The Sarge

Well we recently returned from an awesome Train-cation.

Let me clearify that. A train-cation is when you have to travel out of town for work related training...AND it tends to be in a prime location - so you get to do some pretty cool stuff in your down time.

In this instance, we got to travel to beautiful Ft. Lauderdale, FL. This is our second visit to South Florida, or as most cool folks know it as...SoFlo.

I had an opportunity to get another week long session of ISR Matrix (http://www.isrmatrix.org/) training in...and it was a blast!

Gina and Chelsea went with ...We got a chance to hit the beach, have some great food and knock back some 'ritas....could it get better?

Sure. We also took a day trip down to Key Largo! We went snorkeling w/ Key Divers! We hit the reef and got a chance to see the Christ of the Abyss statue. It was amazing! I was sad that I was missing Sunday services back at River City Community Church...but glad that I still got to get some Jesus!

But all play and no work a train-cation does not make.

So Monday - Friday I was off to One Dragon Marital Arts (http://www.onedragon.com/) for ISR Training. I was reunited with two of my Tabmoc (http://www.tabmoc.com/) brothers James aka: Poncho and Lil Rich...hey? how come I don't have a nickname? I also got to see some ol' friends like Jon, Eric and Ray and some new ones like Dave, the Aussie, and Calen, the Canuck...

Anyway, as usual, the training didn't disappoint. Luis Gutierrez had plenty in store for us. By the end of the first day most of us were sore, but ready for more.

We covered stuff like:

Subject Control/Management/Transporation

Weapons Retention

Clinch with Cloth

Ground Engagement

If you've never seen this stuff, I really is the best out there!

Near the end of the week we were just about ready to head on back to the Lone Star State, but we had one more goal to accomplish. We met up with Wil, a long lost buddy from the Army days. We met with an his son at the MoonLite Cafe for burgers and shakes. It was glad we were able to take some time out of our busy schedules to hook up.

So yeah, we had a great time.

I hate that I didn't get to spend more time with my family, but hey, it was a VAcation...it was a TRAINcation.

I defintely think we'll be traveling again, but perhaps to different places. Life is too short to see the same things over and over again............

Til next time,

The Sarge

A Fresh Start

I had a blog once.

I looked at it recently and I came to realize, that I was not that Blogger anymore.

My life, my priorities and my dreams and focus have changed since then.

So rather than just moving on with that blog, I chose to start a new.

Which brings me here.

I'm sure I'll blog about a variety of things...my faith, my life with the three most wonderful young ladies in the world, exercise, travel, work and training.

Hope you tune in....

The Sarge