Not a whole lot new to update you on.
Alex is still waiting on his passport and from there he will figure out his flight over and when to get started. For now he is learning a few things about Callan, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. Though Callan seems like a smaller town in the county of Kilkenny, it seems that the vikings are definitely part of their history there - which is quite cool. In Kilkenny, the city, there looks like quite a lot of tourism to do. Hopefully Alex will get the chance!
Jared has started physical training with his Marine recruiter. He will be going every Wednesday morning to increase his strength and endurance - doing pull-ups, push ups, crunches and running at least 1.5 or more miles. Then every 2nd Saturday of each month he is doing some 'bonding' with other recruits. Yesterday was his first time. They played combat soccer with about 30 or 35 recruits, no using of the hands to shove or push but they could use their bodies to push each other out of the way to get to the ball. If you used your hands you had to go to the side and do 2 minutes of some sort of calisthenics - which was a good thing because trying to play soccer with that many people on a small field was quite difficult, but luckily people were out on the sides quite often. HA! They also did some line running where they had to take turns rotating who was in front, run in unison, and learned some marching and turning along with some of his first cadences. He came home tired but seemed quite pumped up about the whole experience!
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