Lindsey Minnick-Bliss
So funny! I have been thinking about our trip all day! It was the best and to share it with you and Chelle made it the very best. I love you Lindz.
Michelle Vial Larson
When I think about that trip it's like a picture of a thousand sunsets ... It's the freedom of a thousand doves. Just wanted to paint my love for you ladies!
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Lindsey Rosier
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That's hilarious Chell! I haven't heard that song in 14 years. At first I thought you were just being poetic cause I'd forgotten the words! haahahaaa! And Linz, meee tooo! As I sat here folding laundry to...night I thought about what I was doing 14 years ago tonight and remembered the excitement and fear of what we were doing as we walked down that boarding ramp onto a plane heading to ASIA hello, adrenaline pumping into my veins and feeling like screaming cause it was all so amazing and unreal... it was the best high on life feeling EVER! Ahhh, those were the best days.
Paula Marie Wright Vial
That's hilarious Chell! I haven't heard that song in 14 years. At first I thought you were just being poetic cause I'd forgotten the words! haahahaaa! And Linz, meee tooo! As I sat here folding laundry to...night I thought about what I was doing 14 years ago tonight and remembered the excitement and fear of what we were doing as we walked down that boarding ramp onto a plane heading to ASIA hello, adrenaline pumping into my veins and feeling like screaming cause it was all so amazing and unreal... it was the best high on life feeling EVER! Ahhh, those were the best days.
Paula Marie Wright Vial
WOW 14 years really!!
Watching you all leave down that ramp was very exciting for me also. See in all the work you did to get there .the planning the classes the shots etc the BINGO card the pictures on the wall the empty room to go back ...to .Leaving us all behind. What a trip still haven't seen all the pictures and I'm sure read all the stories that were had. But life brings them back to memory every once in a while and I get a "Oh I remember story."
I miss all the excitement you all had doing this.Love you three
Paula Marie Wright Vial
Great song Chelle!! Have a great next 14 years!! Welcome to High school, missions, marriages, grandkids. OK OK I will be patient and wait
Lindsey Minnick-Bliss
Watching you all leave down that ramp was very exciting for me also. See in all the work you did to get there .the planning the classes the shots etc the BINGO card the pictures on the wall the empty room to go back ...to .Leaving us all behind. What a trip still haven't seen all the pictures and I'm sure read all the stories that were had. But life brings them back to memory every once in a while and I get a "Oh I remember story."
I miss all the excitement you all had doing this.Love you three
Paula Marie Wright Vial
Great song Chelle!! Have a great next 14 years!! Welcome to High school, missions, marriages, grandkids. OK OK I will be patient and wait
Lindsey Minnick-Bliss
We were so silly! We brought so much stuff that when Chad helped me get my backpack on and said, "Okay. Are you ready?". I wasn't prepared for how heavy that darn bag was! I fell right on the ground! Remember rolling those bags along on... the bumpy dirt roads of Siagon? What a sight we must have been. Us looking so wide-eyed and laughing about nothing and everything! So amazing!
Paula, I forgot about the Bingo card! So cool that we got all of that stuff done. Definitely made us who we are today.
Loves to all of you!
Lindsey Rosier
I think that maybe someday it would be cool to share those "I remember when" stories with each other or write them down or something. I look back in my journal and realize that if I had not been so religious about recording it all, I would have forgotten most of it by now. And I would love to hear your versions of those good days. Linz, thank you for painting such a vivid picture of that day in Saigon. Paint some more for me!
Lindsey Rosier
Paula, I forgot about the Bingo card! So cool that we got all of that stuff done. Definitely made us who we are today.
Loves to all of you!
Lindsey Rosier
I think that maybe someday it would be cool to share those "I remember when" stories with each other or write them down or something. I look back in my journal and realize that if I had not been so religious about recording it all, I would have forgotten most of it by now. And I would love to hear your versions of those good days. Linz, thank you for painting such a vivid picture of that day in Saigon. Paint some more for me!
Lindsey Rosier
Here's one...
Like the time we sat down at that podunky restaurant on the black sandy beach in Bali and ordered halibut for dinner so the waiter hollered something to his co-worker (probably family) and they took off with their little boat i...nto the ocean and came back two hours later with the biggest and best tasting halibut I've ever had. (Someday I want to reenact Linz feeding the monkeys in her red skirt.)
And here's another one....
Hiking with the Boyle's in their "backyard" and playing tag and capture the flag in their forest. Has anyone kept in touch with them??
Michelle Vial Larson
Like the time we sat down at that podunky restaurant on the black sandy beach in Bali and ordered halibut for dinner so the waiter hollered something to his co-worker (probably family) and they took off with their little boat i...nto the ocean and came back two hours later with the biggest and best tasting halibut I've ever had. (Someday I want to reenact Linz feeding the monkeys in her red skirt.)
And here's another one....
Hiking with the Boyle's in their "backyard" and playing tag and capture the flag in their forest. Has anyone kept in touch with them??
Michelle Vial Larson
I stayed in touch with Ben because he ended up coming to BYU-Hawaii. He was exactly the same. Just as endearing as he was when we stayed with them.
Was that on that quick trip we took to the North coast of Bali? Where they had the lights on... the boats and the beach with conch shells to communicate with their team members? Where we met that couple and sat on the porch talking all night? Where we stained ourselves with our handy Vietnamese sleeping bags? Where we washed them and turned the whole bathroom fuchsia?
What I remember about that day in Bali was the conversation with the girl that worked at that hut restaurant and the realization that life is not fair. The tables could never be turned for her and I. No matter how much she wanted it or worked for it. That's something I still haven't reconciled about life.
Was that on that quick trip we took to the North coast of Bali? Where they had the lights on... the boats and the beach with conch shells to communicate with their team members? Where we met that couple and sat on the porch talking all night? Where we stained ourselves with our handy Vietnamese sleeping bags? Where we washed them and turned the whole bathroom fuchsia?
What I remember about that day in Bali was the conversation with the girl that worked at that hut restaurant and the realization that life is not fair. The tables could never be turned for her and I. No matter how much she wanted it or worked for it. That's something I still haven't reconciled about life.
That was the night I think I gained 12 lbs from eating so much ice cream.
ReplyDeleteChelle, what was your conversation with that girl in Lovena Beach exactly? I don't remember much about it except that you were different afterward. And I was just excited to eat my ice cream.
ReplyDeleteThat we could be in the same place having the same conversation but get totally different things out of it just shows the how different our focus's were. I'm curious to hear what you remember from it.
This is where I of course can't remember what was real with what my mind knew at the time and what has become real as my mind grows and changes over time.
ReplyDeleteI just remember there was a girl that worked there that was about our age. She couldn't believe what we were doing and couldn't comprehend having enough money to do what we were doing. I remember something about how what she wanted most was enough money to finish school let alone take a trip around the world.
I remember that it was that families daughter. They said that it took the whole family working night and day to send her to school and they wanted her to get them out of their situation. She said it was a lot of pressure on her but that she was willing to work hard at school since her family was working diligently for her to complete her schooling. At least this is what I remember.
ReplyDeleteI love this. All our minds together are like one superhero mind of memories. All these details coming together.
ReplyDeleteWhat an incredible family, I really, really hope she made it! If nothing else, I hope she's happy.
Another memory I have of that night was the change in the way we talked with her. It was like our worldview was changing in a matter of minutes. We made a choice to go to Bali, we made a choice to hop on a bus and go north, we made a choice of where we were going to spend our money for dinner that night. All of those things were options for us. Where were her options?
It seems like at the beginning of the conversation we were like cheerleaders for her to do exactly what we were doing. Like ... Really, if you set your mind to it, it can happen. And the more we talked and understood her life our own privilege came to the forefront.