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Episode 5

So, Mark has a brother, also with the last name of Wiebenga (obviously). He had started assuming he was already in the WiebengaLife, simply because he shared the same last name. We thought about this and realized that the answers we were getting for what WiebengaLife means to people, had nothing really to do with the last name (other than the fact that I think people just like how it sounds when they say it), but had everything to do with the way Mark and I have designed our life. Therefore, we decided that he would have to go in front of the panel and we informed him that he would have to do it on the upcoming trip to Cancun we were going on with about 500 of our friends that year.

Being that it had been a whole year since the last Cancun trip where we first unveiled Mark and my original WiebengaLife shirts, and we had made several spectacles of people being inducted into the WiebengaLife and earning the gear, we had a multitude of people wanting to be inducted. I would tell each of them this: “You have to catch us on a trip, go in front of a super secret panel, and you will be asked the question.” They always say, “What question is that?” & I say, “We are allowed to ask you more questions, but you will, for sure, be asked this question, ‘What does WiebengaLife mean to you?’” Then I say, “You may start preparing now.” ; ) They always get this super serious look on their face (mostly because I try to look very serious while delivering these instructions) and assure me that they will have something great prepared. Then they ask, “When can I go in front of the panel?” and I reply that it has to happen on a trip and they have to get 3 other WiebengaLifers to join us before it can happen.

Being that it had been a whole year since the last Cancun trip where we first unveiled Mark and my original WiebengaLife shirts, and we had made several spectacles of people being inducted into the WiebengaLife and earning the gear, we had a multitude of people wanting to be inducted. I would tell each of them this: “You have to catch us on a trip, go in front of a super secret panel, and you will be asked the question.” They always say, “What question is that?” & I say, “We are allowed to ask you more questions, but you will, for sure, be asked this question, ‘What does WiebengaLife mean to you?’” Then I say, “You may start preparing now.” ; ) They always get this super serious look on their face (mostly because I try to look very serious while delivering these instructions) and assure me that they will have something great prepared. Then they ask, “When can I go in front of the panel?” and I reply that it has to happen on a trip and they have to get 3 other WiebengaLifers to join us before it can happen.

So, fast forward to our Cancun trip and there are a ton of people wanting to go in front of “The Panel” and we are thinking, we don’t have time to induct all of these people. So we find a night that everyone is hanging out at the same main bar at our resort and start to hand select the people who have bugged us the most about the induction process, including Mark’s brother. We had a lot of fun and ended up inducting another 5 people into the WiebengaLife after making sure they were able to prove that they were worthy of being a part of it. It was a blast and Mark’s brother even made it in. . . OFFICIALLY!

Read the End of the Story on Episode 6 . . .

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Episode 3

So we’re strutting our goofball-ness around the pools at the Hard Rock Cancun in our neon #WiebengaLife tank tops chuckling to ourselves and making sure nobody misses the ridiculousness of what we are doing, but we hear something very different from what we were expecting. All of these people had been watching us go on adventure after adventure all while winning with our business and they were under the impression that #WiebengaLife was an actual thing. So while we are doing our strut around the pool, all we hear are a bunch of people asking how they can get a shirt and be “In The WiebengaLife”. Over and over it was, “Ah man! Now you have shirts!? How do I get one? Can I be a Wiebenga?” As Mark and I got to the end of our walk, we looked at each other a bit disappointed that no-one had thought it was as funny as we had thought it to be, and a little worried that we were going to have to go into the shirt making business. We laid off on the hash-tagging for a bit and made no promises to anyone regarding shirts and thought we had gotten away with not feeding the fire. I’m not sure what mistake we are on now, but that was another mistake; thinking we had not fanned a flame.

We have a good friend who lives on the complete other side of town from us. He showed up at our house one fine December day with tank tops for himself and two other good friends of ours, insisting that we help him put #WiebengaLife on THOSE shirts so they could wear them on their trip the following week. We told him we thought he was off his rocker wanting OUR name on his shirts, but we complied because we knew he had traveled far and we like spending time with him. Mark and I had a good laugh after he left, about how anyone else would actually want to wear our name on their shirt, but we thought that was the end of that. As it turns out, from that point in time to the next week, those same guys ended up convincing us to join them on their trip! We, apparently, are easily convinced to go on epic trips with great friends. ; ) The only stipulation to us coming with them, was that we bring OUR #WiebengaLife shirts too.

Mark and I threw caution to the wind, threw our shirts in our bags, and headed back to Mexico. We were ridiculous with our wearing of our shirts together and even went so far as taking several pictures together all over the resort, family style, as true goofballs would.

We joked about how epic we looked in our awesome #WiebengaLife gear and posted all of our pics on social media. Another mistake, as it turns out.

To Be Continued on Episode 4. . .

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