Tuesday, July 8, 2008
On The Road Again
We are about two hours into our seven hour drive for today... all the way from Hastings, Nebraska to Littleton, Colorado!
Monday, July 7, 2008
Back In The Pool
Well, the storm has passed and the kids are back in the pool. I may get in here myself in a few minutes and take another dip.
Waterpark In Hastings, Nebraska
We are swimming and playing at Aquacourt, a nice city-owned waterpark in Hastings, NE. At least we were swimming and playing... right now we are waiting out a thunderstorm that is moving through the area. They are tellingus that it should be all clear soon, so hopefully we can get back in the pool in a few minutes from now.
Michael
Michael
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Fourth Concert of the Day!
That's right... we are right now performing our fourth concert for today!
The kids are a little tired, their voices are wearing down, but we do not perform again until Wednesday, so they will get a much needed rest.
We are all staying at a hotel for the next two nights, so that will be a nice break.
Michael
The kids are a little tired, their voices are wearing down, but we do not perform again until Wednesday, so they will get a much needed rest.
We are all staying at a hotel for the next two nights, so that will be a nice break.
Michael
Greetings From Omaha
Hey everyone,
I just set up my blog to do "mobile blogging." Basically what that means is that I can send a text message from my phone to my blog. So, what does that mean? It means that, hopefully, and I say hopefully, my blog will be updated more often. They will be shorter posts, but more frequent. Well, so much for that.
Right now, we are getting ready to do concert number two out of four for today! We are in Omaha, Nebraska now and will be in Hastings, Nebraska tonight.
July 4th was great... we got to be part of the Parade in Albert Lea, MN, on the 3rd, and then performed a concert there by Fountain Lake right after the parade. On the 4th, we went back to Albert Lea for fireworks over the Lake. Awesome!
Well, pastor is introducing us. Gotta go!
Michael
I just set up my blog to do "mobile blogging." Basically what that means is that I can send a text message from my phone to my blog. So, what does that mean? It means that, hopefully, and I say hopefully, my blog will be updated more often. They will be shorter posts, but more frequent. Well, so much for that.
Right now, we are getting ready to do concert number two out of four for today! We are in Omaha, Nebraska now and will be in Hastings, Nebraska tonight.
July 4th was great... we got to be part of the Parade in Albert Lea, MN, on the 3rd, and then performed a concert there by Fountain Lake right after the parade. On the 4th, we went back to Albert Lea for fireworks over the Lake. Awesome!
Well, pastor is introducing us. Gotta go!
Michael
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Flooded Midwest
Hey everyone,
Greetings from Illinois.
We are currently in Belleville, just across the river from St. Louis.
Many of you have heard about all the flooding in the Midwest, and we have been affected by some of it.
Last Saturday, we drove from Northern Indiana to Terre Haute. It was on the day they had a bunch of rain. Interstate 70 was shut down and what was supposed to be a 3 1/2 hour drive for us turned into a 7 1/2 hour drive. The last forty miles or so took us four hours! To make matters worse, our A/C on the bus is out right now and it was an extremely hot day. Now, if we are moving at a good pace on the interstate or whatever, there is at least a little bit of air moving through the bus. But that last four hours, there was no air movement at all. It was pretty miserable, to say the least. But we made it.
We were scheduled to perform in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, next week, but had to cancel that concert because of the flooding there. Sounds like it's pretty bad there. Five hundred city blocks were under water, according to the news reports that I read.
Another subject... a couple of weeks ago, on Memorial Day weekend, we had a big fundraiser softball tournament in Lancaster, PA, my home area. The action started on a Friday afternoon around 1:00 and there were games until 10:00 that night. Saturday morning, they were back at it around 8:00 and the tournament ended around 9:00 that night. There were eighteen teams from four different states. It was a a lot of fun. I even got to play a couple of games with a team from Ohio who needed a fill-in player. I went 3 for 5 with two doubles! Not bad for not having played for almost a year and not much at all for the past three years. Well, so much for my bragging. All day long on both days, we had concession stands set up with hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken sandwiches, pig roast sandwiches, and all kinds of other stuff. Then, on Sunday morning, the choir did a concert at a construction company's shop and the choir's Indian leaders cooked up a big Indian meal. That was still all part of the fundraiser. It was a great weekend. All of the proceeds went to famine relief in Northeast India. The tournament and related events brought in $17,000!
That following week, we performed at local fire hall there in Lancaster, and in four concerts raised another $10,000 for famine relief!
Since then we have been working our way west through Ohio, Indiana, and now Illinois.
Keep praying for us.
Michael
Greetings from Illinois.
We are currently in Belleville, just across the river from St. Louis.
Many of you have heard about all the flooding in the Midwest, and we have been affected by some of it.
Last Saturday, we drove from Northern Indiana to Terre Haute. It was on the day they had a bunch of rain. Interstate 70 was shut down and what was supposed to be a 3 1/2 hour drive for us turned into a 7 1/2 hour drive. The last forty miles or so took us four hours! To make matters worse, our A/C on the bus is out right now and it was an extremely hot day. Now, if we are moving at a good pace on the interstate or whatever, there is at least a little bit of air moving through the bus. But that last four hours, there was no air movement at all. It was pretty miserable, to say the least. But we made it.
We were scheduled to perform in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, next week, but had to cancel that concert because of the flooding there. Sounds like it's pretty bad there. Five hundred city blocks were under water, according to the news reports that I read.
Another subject... a couple of weeks ago, on Memorial Day weekend, we had a big fundraiser softball tournament in Lancaster, PA, my home area. The action started on a Friday afternoon around 1:00 and there were games until 10:00 that night. Saturday morning, they were back at it around 8:00 and the tournament ended around 9:00 that night. There were eighteen teams from four different states. It was a a lot of fun. I even got to play a couple of games with a team from Ohio who needed a fill-in player. I went 3 for 5 with two doubles! Not bad for not having played for almost a year and not much at all for the past three years. Well, so much for my bragging. All day long on both days, we had concession stands set up with hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken sandwiches, pig roast sandwiches, and all kinds of other stuff. Then, on Sunday morning, the choir did a concert at a construction company's shop and the choir's Indian leaders cooked up a big Indian meal. That was still all part of the fundraiser. It was a great weekend. All of the proceeds went to famine relief in Northeast India. The tournament and related events brought in $17,000!
That following week, we performed at local fire hall there in Lancaster, and in four concerts raised another $10,000 for famine relief!
Since then we have been working our way west through Ohio, Indiana, and now Illinois.
Keep praying for us.
Michael
Friday, May 16, 2008
Random Stuff and Mother's Day
Hey everyone,
It's been awhile since I checked in here, but here I am!
Right now we are in Damascus, Ohio for just one night of hosting to break up a drive from Central PA to Toledo, Ohio. We were here in Damascus a few weeks ago for a concert. This is an area that we are in every year and we know the people here very well, so it worked great to come back for one night.
Earlier this week we got to spend a few days with my family at a cabin in Central PA. It is a large cabin that my family vacations at quite a bit and, since we had a concert in the area on Wednesday night, we spent from Sunday night to Tuesday afternoon there. It rained all day Monday, so we stayed inside and watched movies (Alvin and the Chipmunks about 5 times) and played games. On Tuesday, it was nice, but still very wet, so again most of the time was spent inside. The boys did start playing baseball in the yard and it soon turned into a game up mudball.
Since Sunday was Mother's Day, and I had not seen my mom on Mother's Day for three or four years, I decided to try to make it special. On Saturday, I stopped at a flower shop and bought two dozen roses. As the kids got off the bus at the cabin on Sunday, I had them each take a rose and give it to my mom and say Happy Mother's Day. It was pretty neat.
See ya next time,
Michael Esh
It's been awhile since I checked in here, but here I am!
Right now we are in Damascus, Ohio for just one night of hosting to break up a drive from Central PA to Toledo, Ohio. We were here in Damascus a few weeks ago for a concert. This is an area that we are in every year and we know the people here very well, so it worked great to come back for one night.
Earlier this week we got to spend a few days with my family at a cabin in Central PA. It is a large cabin that my family vacations at quite a bit and, since we had a concert in the area on Wednesday night, we spent from Sunday night to Tuesday afternoon there. It rained all day Monday, so we stayed inside and watched movies (Alvin and the Chipmunks about 5 times) and played games. On Tuesday, it was nice, but still very wet, so again most of the time was spent inside. The boys did start playing baseball in the yard and it soon turned into a game up mudball.
Since Sunday was Mother's Day, and I had not seen my mom on Mother's Day for three or four years, I decided to try to make it special. On Saturday, I stopped at a flower shop and bought two dozen roses. As the kids got off the bus at the cabin on Sunday, I had them each take a rose and give it to my mom and say Happy Mother's Day. It was pretty neat.
See ya next time,
Michael Esh
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