If Genghis Khan, Why Can't I?

Welp, here is our Blog, The Bee's Knees. This is our first adventure into the inter-web diary posting network and we are still rookies at this so throw us a bone if it looks shabby. For years I resisted any temptation to create a blog for simple principles that were really quite silly. Most reasoning centered around my dislike for the abbreviation of web-log into blog, and for that matter my dislike for most all unnecessary abbreviations. However, in an effort to stay in touch with all of our incredible friends and family we have decided to create a blog to record and relate some of our experiences, travels, and adventures. We realize that we won't be able to call and e-mail with the amount of correspondence that we would like to maintain with our closest of friends, so we thought a blog would be a great avenue of communication. With that being said Here is our first Blog Post...

Trying to figure out a cool witty name to a blog is a really hard process. We had an ongoing list of blog names that we had been brainstorming since the wedding, however none of them seemed perfect.  Here is a top 5 list of our favorites (By the way, I like top 5 lists).

5. The Colonel's Buffet

4. To Each Their Own

3. Katie+Jordan=#1

2. Za Andersons

1. If Genghis Khan, Why Can't I?

The number one choice ended up being the Bee's Knees due to its rhyming sound and overall coolness. However, the Genghis Kahn name was awesome and was actually a slogan used by a guy who decided to play a game of golf across the entire region of Mongolia. He wrote a book about his trip hitting a golf ball across the whole area, I didn't read it but I liked the phrase. Anyway, The Bee's Knee's it is.

Today, Katie and I spent the entire day packing copious amounts of clothing into vacuum pack bags which were then stuffed into 4 large suitcases and 2 carry-on bags. We spent hours weighing ourselves then picking up the bags and subtracting the new weight then unpacking some clothes and repeating the weighings then repacking some items and repeating the weighings followed by repeating the unpack/pack. All in all the pack went well and we are ready to leave in the afternoon for Washington DC to see Benny (my brother), meet the other Rhodes Scholars, and eventually travel to England on Wednesday.