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Episode 2
Hey everyone! As Thanksgiving Day winds down, we didn’t want to leave you hangin’ for too long, because there is much, MUCH more to be told about how this crazy WiebengaLife thing came to, well. . . be a thing! Here is our next Episode and as I think back, this is really where we made a turn that we just couldn’t take back. . . Happy Thanksgiving Guys!!!
So, now our name became a verb and was synonymous with all kinds of things including ‘Killing It’, ‘Being Awesome’, or ‘Rockin’ it” (as in, “I’m Rockin’/Wiebengin’ the shirt I’m wearing). Mark and I would walk through a room at any company event and crack up at everyone verbing up our last name; even having some people use it and then get very excited when they found out WE actually were the Wiebenga’s they were referring to! It was a blast, but the fun didn’t stop there.
At some point in the mix of the Wiebenga verb flying around, someone commented “#WiebengaLife” on one of our photos from one of our adventures on social media. This, BTW, is the moment Mark and I finally understood the purpose of hash-tagging things. That #WiebengaLife looked pretty good and if we just added that little hashtag to all of our adventure pics, we would be able to see all of them side by side. We thought, “That would be pretty cool, to see them right next to each other and be able to look them up that way at any time!” So we started to hashtag it. That was mistake #1. ; )
Our second mistake, was thinking we would be funny. You see, we were headed to Cancun with about 300 of our friends, all from our vacation club, and we thought we would get everyone to laugh if we showed up with tank tops that had #WiebengaLife written really big and in neon lettering on them. No offense to the people who take their family on a vacation and make them all wear shirts with their last name on them, but we thought it was a ridiculous idea and our friends would all bust a gut if they saw us strutting around in them. We got the shirts made, super secretly. . . at a kiosk at the mall before we left, and made sure they were on tank tops that we would be OK just going to the gym in, after we wore them once for the laughs.
Our plan was flawless. We picked a day that we knew everyone would be hanging out at the main pool at the Hard Rock Resort in Cancun and we started our strutting. To this day, we don’t clearly understand what happened. . .
To Be Continued on Episode 3. . .
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