Mike King

A goofy moment...

Vicki and I, joined about a dozen friends for one of our son Micah's 30th birthday events.  We went to RA Sushi Restaurant at Town Center.  After a feast of happy hour sushi beyond the capacity of my ability to eat one more bit we headed to our car to head to the next leg of the party.  Vicki had the keys and we stood beside our doors as she tried multiple times to unlock the door.  The beeper kept going off, we could hear the doors unlock but we couldn't open the doors.  I tried the back door and questioned Vicki to explore if she was doing something wrong.  She just kept trying when all of a sudden it dawned on me that the vehicle next to the one we were trying to get in was identical in everyway to ours and we were trying to get in the wrong vehicle.  Duh!

 

Plaza Christmas

The Plaza is truly one of my favorite locations in the world and I've done enough traveling (55 plus countries) to add credibility to my statement.  Here in Kansas City we had the biggest Christmas snow storm since 1895.  Absolutely beautiful.  We finally decided to get out late Christmas Eve with Micah, Anne and Jessica.  Here are some of my iPhone pics.

 

A funny, yet truthful reminder of how spoiled and ungrateful we can be...

Laughter

Laughter is an instant vacation. ~ Milton Berle

This clip from Ellen and her interaction with an 88-year-old woman named Gladys will send you on vacation.

Separated at Birth

On Friday night we joined a dozen friends for an evening at the Westport Flea Market to join in the fun of Separated at Birth.  Separated at Birth is a hilarious duo of comedic and talented musicians made up of Carl Pelofsky and Grant Wood.  Their gig is live Karaoke.  Grant Wood was one of my favorite kids I worked with as a teenager involved in YouthFront.  Grant has become more than a kid who was involved in my ministry - he is a friend.  Grant served as a youth pastor right out of college and also was on our staff for a couple of years.  Grant and his beautiful wife Emma now run a very successful family therapy center.  Here is a Kansas City Star Article on Separated at Birth.  They play on the last Friday night of every month.  Go early if you want a good seat.  My son Micah and I have committed to our first karaoke performance next month.

WeeMee Vicki

Tubing with Youth Workers

This has been a brutally busy week so it was great to take a little break and spend the afternoon with youth workers at the tubing hill at Snow Creek.  YouthFront sponsored this event for youth workers.  We started with lunch at YouthFront and then headed to Snow Creek.  There were around 50 of us and we had the hill all to ourselves.  Youth workers are adventurous risk takers.  We spent a lot of time trying to catapult each other over the lane barriers.  A big thanks to Rivers Partin for organizing this free event for youth workers.  This is a picture of some of us right before a run down the hill.  Thanks to Katie Jarmer for the photo.