Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs,CO (Mon.5/12)

The Focus on the Family empire handles 10,000 e-mails, letters, and phone calls each day with some 1400 workers.

They have a 3 story slide, but you can't be over 5'9” because some big guy got stuck a while ago... It just takes one to ruin it for the rest of us... Dad had to sit this one out, but Kobe was just tall enough (with his shoes on).

Kobe ordering ice cream at Whit's End

The Imagination Station was just an elevator (a bit disappointing)

The boys starred in their own Adventures in Odyssey ("AO" to our crew) action thriller (slight hyperbole used in “starred”, “action” and “thriller”, but from a parent's perspective...). We have many Adventures in Odyssey CD's which have been great on the trip – we're big fans, so this was a huge deal. We left with a CD of their audio performance with the AO stars' voices dubbed in -- it was really fun.

The faces behind the voices

The Foley artists – makers of the sound effects

The visuals which corresponded to the audio

The faces behind the real AO stars

Levi, Elan and I sat in on a Focus on the Family taping where Dr. Dobson interviewed Dr. Lewis author of Raising a Modern day Knight. I liked the book – I'll let you know in 10-20 years whether it worked or not.

Dr. Lewis and Dr. Dobson (Elan affectionately called him Bob Barker)

We spent our remaining time and money at the big bookstore.