[Laughing] Maybe I won't put that in...
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HI! We're the Kjar Kids...
Our parents are crazy they want to take us on a year-long trip. They call it empathy expedition
We're traveling the state's discover. What makes us United. 50 states in 52 weeks.
[Music: The National Parks]
Matt's laughing because I have this sweater on you know that when I'm supposed to get rid of a couple videos ago
I couldn't do it... to attached.
After that many years
Like an old friend.
We just had a
Crazy amazing experience and and so that will be coming up in an upcoming
upcoming video
But we wanted to just talk about the past three months
We don't normally it's not normally us like it's normally the kids, but we just wanted to tell you
How crazy cool this
past three months a been... and how crazy awful
Let's get real.
There have been some awful moments.
No, it's been, I think for sure this whole trip has been like it's been
Harder than we expected it to be and it's been
More rewarding than we expected it to be and it's been like more growth
Inducing that we expected it to be but just lots of expectations kind of shot of the water in every direction.
Which is how life goes because when you expect something you have...
Like emotions attached to it or something and it doesn't end up that way, right?
Sure...
So today we just we just spent and this actually won't be in a video because
they wouldn't let us videotape any of it. So we'll just tell you about it. We just spent
an evening with
Two thousand... do you think there were two thousand?
Two Thousand Amish people
at a fundraiser.
A fish fry
fundraiser for one of the schools
Here locally
Yep, yeah, our friend back home, she grew up in the community here in Shipshewana
Indiana in Northeastern, Indiana and
When she knew that we were coming up here. She sent us this amazing list of all these places
we should go is very detailed exactly you know which highways to turn on because there's lots of little country roads and and
She told us exactly which bakery to go to exactly which
Which cousin of hers would be willing to let us come in spend some time with her and just she was super
accommodating and super friendly to let us... yeah to let us... super kind to let us come and
visit her family members and they were
Super. I'm just super kind and hospitable to us her cousin
Suzy she has a little shop where she sells
Fabric and
Buttons that she sells to the amish community that they come and buy for to make their clothing this and so we went and visited
Her and saw her for a little shop, and then she took us for a ride in their buggy
And we got to spend time with her
She's amish. I don't think you said...
Her cousin is Amish.
Our friend back home is not amish, but her dad grew up amish
And so that's why she has so many times to the amish community, but um so it was just super fun. Her kids
were just really friendly and they were they were fascinated by our kids and our kids are fascinated by them.
They wanted to see the RV and see inside and see our kids
you know
Technology and and our kids wanted to see their barn and their chickens.Our kids saw that they were running around barefoot
And immediately took off their shoes were like "We're IN!"
On the farm barefoot too.
So susie and her husband to have they have ten kids and their oldest son
So they have two daughters who were older
But they're their oldest son has autism and so this fundraiser this evening was to raise funds for his
special needs school or special needs
Community I guess it would be.
Yeah, it's like post high school. So it's not really a school anymore. It's their workshop
I think they call it.
yeah and
That's something that I don't know. I don't know why I didn't think about that
I mean the special needs are in every community, so I
You know being amish doesn't preclude you from from having somebody who has autism or somebody who has down syndrome...
Or or any other special needs
And and it was amazing to see how this community
Came together and they had an auction and a fish fry. So everything was based on donations
They didn't have a cost to get into the event or a cost for
the food, and it was all you can eat. Our kids filled up on broasted chicken and fish and potatoes and
all sorts of amish foods and then, and pie and fruit and then and then there was an auction and
We were standing next to a little amish lady who, who was kind of chuckling to herself because they were auctioning off whoopie pies
this Big
I don't know cookie jar... Full of Whoopie pies homemade whoopie pies and
The auctioneer is like okay? Who's Gonna. Give me $100
I'm gonna be $100 and she's like well those have
Got to be some really good cookies because I think that they end up auctioning for a hundred and fifteen dollars
For a little thing of whoopie pies, and she looked at it. She said obviously these aren't
115 Dollars worth of Whoopie pies, they're it's much more
Donation for the Community, but last year they raised
$50,000
$50,000 and this year's turnout was much bigger than they were expecting so hopefully though they're hoping to pay the school off or another school
The workshop off this year so that they can yeah, just be debt free in their...
School.
But the thing that has been so cool about this is that there have been little
Experiences like this that we just keep looking at each other and looking at our kids and say
"Do you guys realize how cool this is that we get to do this?"
No, it's and it's not that we get to do it. It's just them we've been super
Super Lucky, and I guess you could say blessed like to just to have friends like reach out to us and say hey
I know someone you know and that's always been the best way to get to know people and to also just to find the best
Restaurants and to find the best places to go we research and research in our books and find stuff
But then always it ends up being like the best places the hole-in-the-wall
Places the neat people you know they're willing to let you come to their fish fry
And you know and come and hang out in their barn their children and stuff are our friends of friends
You know friends of family and so we're super thankful and grateful to and all of you who have who have
Given us suggestions and who have reached out and said hey
I know someone who's there let me call them and see if they'd be willing to let you come in
You know just be a fly on the wall, and they're in their home or their community for you know for a few hours
Keep them coming, please that would be so helpful if you have other suggestions
so we are
Headed Toward the East Coast will be along the East Coast throughout
The fall and then hopefully down to the Florida and do the Southern states in the winter, so that's kind of our plan
but if you have
Haven't caught all our videos which
Who knows you probably haven't but or maybe you have.
but either way, you can catch the time that we
That we got to ride in a hot-Air balloon here
you can catch the time that we got to
Hang out with a native American family here. You can catch the time that we
Got to hang out with the family who lives in an old fire station here
oh the time that we got to hang out with a
Family that has a bluegrass show here branson in Branson. Yeah the time that we got thing out with
I don't know if you should do this... you'll miss someone....
well
Those are just a few
There are many many more
and they're more coming like
Like the family the hockey family that we got hang out with that's a video. That's coming
Or there's a family coming up in Ohio that had triplets and then adopted 14
Special-needs children from from Europe so we haven't met them yet, but oh yeah mind blown just hearing about them
Or the the Irish Catholic family in in Chicago who plays Irish music and
and played that, and we hung out with them, so
Many many more awesome videos, well I like them anyway any many more videos coming
But thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting us and America is amazing. It's an amazing place
That's the thing that I keep coming back to is there are so many
fantastic people and and so many cool things to see and so I'm
Glad that we get to see them and to share a little bit of what we see with you
Yep, America is amazing for sure
I mean
we always thought we loved our country and we still do but it's it's bigger than we thought and
Like our love for America is bigger than we thought our sense of duty like to come back home
Someday wherever home is going to be for us next and and really like contribute, so we can continue
just the legacy that America is you know that just the amazing people that contribute and have joy and
Just have fulfilling lives in beautiful communities
We just want to be a part of that, and you're part of the amazing thing that is America, so it's yeah, we're lucky
You're super lucky yep, thanks for watching
we uh... yeah, we let you into our bedroom for just a few minutes.
Creepy...
Laughing
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