Amazing Nick Vujicic Meets Tennis and Life Camper

This email I received from my dear friend Steve Wilkinson just twenty minutes ago. I would like to share this inspiring story about Nik Vujicic with all of you.

January 16, 2011

Before Christmas I sent many of you a message from Sven Thierhoff, a

former Tennis and Life Camps instructor who now lives near Frankfurt,

Germany. It was an inspiring story about Nick Vujicic, an amazing

person who has no arms and legs. He has developed a positive life

philosophy that resonates with the messages that we share at TLC. To

view Nick talking to youth please go to http://www.nick-vujicic.eu/.

Many people responded with great appreciation. The following email

from TLC camper Mark Carson confirmed that Nick truly lives according

to his philosophy.

All the best,

Steve Wilkinson

Dear TLC,

I have traveled to TLC the past 2 summers from Northfield to enjoy

family camp with my daughter, Sandy. After reading your email, I

wanted to share with you an experience I had about a year ago. I am a

pilot for Delta Airlines, and was preparing to fly from Los Angeles to

Minneapolis when I noticed this young man in the gate area with no

arms or legs talking on his cell phone. It was Nick Vujicic, and he

was on his way to attend the Acquire The Fire event in the Twin Cities.

As I was on the flight deck performing preflight duties, Nick came

down the jet way on his own, and was the first to board. As I got out

of my seat to welcome him on board, he said hello and told me to give

him a hug. He has such a warmth and charisma that people have no

hesitation kneeling down and hugging him. I have never met a person

with so many reasons to be angry and bitter at God and the world, yet

has such peace, gratitude, and acceptance with his lot in life.

After getting off the airplane in Minneapolis, I had the chance to

visit a bit with him and his two traveling companions. His positive

attitude as he shares his story makes a strong impression on everyone

who meets him. He is truly one of the most inspiring people I have

met, and describing my encounter with him to young people has given me

a way to share an encouraging message.

Sandy and I look forward to camp in July.

Mark Carson

P.S. To register please go to the TLC website at

http://www.tennisandlifecamps.org.

Coldness!

Have you ever experienced a burning sensation when you are so cold? Well if you haven't take a little trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming! It is -7 degrees right now! www.jacksonhole.com.

We are here on a 4 day trip. I highly recommend getting hand warmers and those fancy heating socks (I wish I had those right now).

The hotel we are staying at is called the Snow King Resorts (www.snowking.com). The rooms are very comfortable, clean, and cozy. I highly recommend it!

The slopes we are skiing are called the Jackson Hole Mountain Resorts. To be honest Day 1 we couldn't see anything. The fog was so thick that we couldn't even see where we were skiing. Goggles were constantly getting fogged up, couldn't feel my fingers and toes, and my nose was burning how cold it was.

I will give you all a better feeling tomorrow, Day 2.

The best little breakfast place we ate at the resort was called: Rafferty's! I had the eggs, hash, pancakes, coffee, and orange juice! Perfection!

Till tomorrow....

NEW FACEBOOK!!!!!!!!

Social Media is the #1 way of keeping in touch with people. Sad to say that hand written letters, phone calls, text messaging, have all been beat out by good old Facebook. So, we decided we have to keep up with the times and create a NEW PAGE!!!!!!!!

www.facebook.com/elevenelevenjewelry

or our website

www.elevenelevenjewelry.com

Become our friend, poke us, post us, we love to hear from you!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for a great December and all of our customers!

xoxo,

11:11 Jewelry

Chicago Time!

SNOW SNOW SNOW! I love Chicago, this city is loaded with fun activities. Have you every craved to play golf in the winter time? You look outside and see 2 feet of snowing, wish you were on a sunny beach golf course. Well a close second is the Golfsmith Store, next to Costco. Today we went and played golf in a simulator, and we recorded and tape each swing. Awesome activity to get out of the house! Next, we hit up the Mid-Town tennis courts and played some intense doubles. In the midst of all the holiday eating, I highly recommend getting out for some golf and tennis and spending time with the family!

Now of course we are off to dinner. Has anyone ever heard of SARMA? Traditional Eastern European cabbage dish! yummmmmy!

First day of engraving. It was fun but short. Hand engraving is great technique to learn with a lot of possibilities to use on finished jewelry. The students are rockingon on their strait lines - it was impresive to see how talented they are. Tomorrow is another day, all together will be four day workshop. I will keep u posted.

South America Adventure!

www.viejoalmacen.com

Where Evita was buried. This was the most amazing cemetery I have ever seen!

Market shopping!

At the oldest Opera House in Argentina!

Headed to Machu Picchu!

These were real Alpaca!

THE ADVENTURE:

Our amazing South American Adventure!!!! We have never traveled to S.A. and one place that I have been dying to go to is Machu Picchu. A lot of people have heard about this little secret Inca discovery. It about an hour flight from Lima, Peru.

We started our trip off in Lima. It is a great place to visit for a day or two and then its time to move on. The food was phenomenal though. If you like seafood, beef, lemon meringue, and coffee, you will love Lima. We found that the restaurants were very reasonable with the prices and the best restaurants were located off of the main strip.

After a couple days, we took a flight to Cuscos, Peru. Cuscos is the central town you fly into if you are going to visit the magical place of Machu Picchu. It is a very small and quaint town, and again very very good food. We saw many Inca traces of there architecture. Did you know it is still a wonder of the world in how they cut, carried, and constructed those buildings? Over 400 years ago they didn't have electric saws, they had chisels. Everything was chiseled to perfect... how long do you think it took them to build Machu Picchu? Still a wonder!

Next, we took a beautiful train along the mountains on our way to see the beautiful, magical city if Machu Picchu! WOW! It was the most amazing place on earth. The Inca strategically picked this mountain to build there village. It is surround by a water source and mountains. I have included some pictures, but it doesn't even justify its beauty.

Our last leg of the trip was to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Now, I was really surprised at how city like it was. I didn't realize it was the 3rd largest city in South America. Reminded me of a cuter version of New York. I really enjoyed the atmosphere, people and culture in Buenos Aires. Another discovery that I brought back with me was there passion for drinking tea through these metal straws. Yerba Matte that is! I wasn't a huge fan, so I bought some other types of teas, but it definitely go me drink it! We listened to music in the parks, shopped at weekend markets, and ended up catching a real Italian Opera at the oldest Opera house on the continent. We couldn't leave B.A. without catching a salsa show. So we went to Almacen and enjoyed a dinner and salsa!!

If you want more information on our trip, please feel free to contact us. Also, we booked everything through our amazing travel agency. www.latinamerica4less.com!!

Micro forming workshop at Long Beach CA

Let just start with short comment. It's hard to start with something like blog or all other ways of communication between us that we face lately. Social media how they call it now and what used to be seating with friends together after dinner and talk or writing letters to each others. Having Diary and keeping records of daily events is no more or less having your own Blog or I believe so.

So if we or 11:11 better to say like to keep in touch with you who like to follow us we have to start to be more active and give you opportunity to find out what we keep in our gift basket..

It's already late in the night and our third and last day of workshop learning micro forming. We will try to pass more information to you in coming days what we have done in the class with some nice photos to follow.

Tomorrow the day will start with first day of engraving workshop. Same place, same instructors and I believe with dedications to learn we will have fun and try to share with you what we have done in our next posting.

Have a good night.