Here we go! Israel, Ho!
Our bags are packed and we are ready to start our first international journey with our team of three (Hud will have to wait to join the adventure until we get back). We will have 10 days to explore Israel on our own before spending the last 10 days coaching with Ultimate Peace.
We are so excited to see a new country and experience a new culture before what we anticipate being an unforgettable experience at UP camp.
UPs mission is to build friendship, trust, and leadership between youth that live in communities divided by conflict, using ultimate as its tool. In other words, we get to teach and spread our love of ultimate to Arab-Israeli, Jewish-Israeli, and Palestinian youth in order to help them build friendships with each other.
This video does a great job of capturing the impact of this program.
https://vimeo.com/112734967
Each coach is required to fundraise for this very worthy cause and our goal was to raise a combined $5,000. And thanks to the awesome support of friends, family, and Austin's ultimate community we raised over $6,700!
Wheels up tomorrow at 9:30am to arrive in Tel Aviv (via Toronto) around 11:30am on Monday. More to come on the challenges and awesomeness of traveling with our ambassador toddler. We'll see if our beaver bag full of toys and books will be enough to entertain Sybil for the 14 hours of flight time.
You'll find some of our summer highlights from June below:
Nana time at Dave and Ellie's
Our bags are packed and we are ready to start our first international journey with our team of three (Hud will have to wait to join the adventure until we get back). We will have 10 days to explore Israel on our own before spending the last 10 days coaching with Ultimate Peace.
We are so excited to see a new country and experience a new culture before what we anticipate being an unforgettable experience at UP camp.
UPs mission is to build friendship, trust, and leadership between youth that live in communities divided by conflict, using ultimate as its tool. In other words, we get to teach and spread our love of ultimate to Arab-Israeli, Jewish-Israeli, and Palestinian youth in order to help them build friendships with each other.
This video does a great job of capturing the impact of this program.
https://vimeo.com/112734967
Each coach is required to fundraise for this very worthy cause and our goal was to raise a combined $5,000. And thanks to the awesome support of friends, family, and Austin's ultimate community we raised over $6,700!
Wheels up tomorrow at 9:30am to arrive in Tel Aviv (via Toronto) around 11:30am on Monday. More to come on the challenges and awesomeness of traveling with our ambassador toddler. We'll see if our beaver bag full of toys and books will be enough to entertain Sybil for the 14 hours of flight time.
You'll find some of our summer highlights from June below:
Nana time at Dave and Ellie's
Cousin Time.
Opa and Nana CC time in Sugar Land
New favorite beach at Roy G. Guerrero Park in Austin
same beach as above
Barton Springs on Father's Day following our lunch at Zilker Park
Father's Day II
Father's Day III
California cousins Devera and Bernie came to town.
Lake house weekend with the Chongs and Spradlings
Turkey Creek, one of our favorite off leash trails for Hudson.
Family time at Danny and Jessica's wedding in Chicago!
The whole Natenberg clan (less Coopers :-(
toothbrush party - cousin edition
Papa at the Jewel he worked at when he was in high school.
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