Bronwin Gregory “Go Wildcats”

I had the pleasure to lead a few family trips with Tad in New Zealand, over the holiday season several years ago. His humor, gentle super hero style of getting things done and people taken care of- was just damn genuine and lovely to be around. An accomplished college football player, we bonded over cold beers, bowl game statistics, and a mutual die hard love for witnessing a crisp, colorful, college game day at our respective Big 12 schools.

My favorite Tad memories included:

1) being stunned into quiet admiration, for the number of MEAT PIES you inhaled at Auckland gas station next to the airport, on day one pick up of our holiday trip. Please note that while eating, we were both proudly wearing our twinkling reindeer antlers that we would soon be impressing our new guests with.

2) seeing you ZORB for the first time. How on earth you got yourself and those shoulders in and out of that little inflatable hole, cannot be proven through science, and goes against all logic.

3) Dropping our 5 guests off at the airport in Taupo at the end of our Christmas trip and not being sure if we should laugh, or cry that BOTH families either forgot to tip us, or collectively decided against it! We immediately drove to Hell's pizza, grabbed a couple frosty beverages, and went and sat by the lake and laughed through the heartache :)

Thank you Tad, for being my family that winter in New Zealand, and for making it so very easy for so many of us, to love what we get to do, when we get to work alongside a person like you.

I promise to keep rooting for K-State when they play.......except for that game each year against my Texas Aggies :)

with gratitude,
bron