I love to ski. It is my most favorite winter sport. I get so caught up in the thrill of barreling down the mountain. I focus in on what my legs and skis are doing and what route I’m about to take. My mind zeros in on the act of skiing that I sometimes miss what’s going on around me.

So I stop… I look up… and this is what I see.

I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to ski in Winter Park, Colorado for a number of years. The view is truly one of God’s greatest creations. How often do we stop to look at what God has done around us? I’ve been doing more and more of this lately.

Stopping… looking… enjoying the wonder of God’s creation.

I’ve been on vacation in Winter Park, Colorado since last Thursday (2/4/10). It’s been a great time of relaxation and skiing. I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to ski in Winter Park, CO for a number of years and I am so grateful to the family that allows me to stay in their condo each season. This season, it was really fun to have my friend Brandon (center) and my cousin Mike (right) along with me. Brandon and I met in college at North Central and he now lives in Idaho. Mike and I are cousins and grew up living in adjoining towns in Illinois, he now lives in Arizona.

This weekend was a great time hanging out with friends and just relaxing. It was a good time spent with good friends and a good time getting revitalized.

So you’ve probably heard the rumor by now that the iPhone might go to Verizon once Apple’s exclusivity contract with AT&T expires later this year. A lot of people were disappointed that Steve Jobs didn’t say one word about the iPhone during the iPad event on Jan. 27, 2010. While discussing rate plans for data support for the iPad he said that it would only be available on AT&T. This led people to believe that there will never be a Verizon iPhone.

So here are my thoughts:

Verizon will get the iPhone sometime in Q3 of 2010. That announcement will probably not be made until June. Announcing a Q3 release Verizon iPhone would be a really bad move for Apple at this time. Many iPhone users love their phone but are not satisfied with AT&T’s lack up data network support. So if a Verizon iPhone was announced in January, iPhone sales would plummet until the Verizon iPhone were released. This wouldn’t make for a good Q1 or Q2 for Apple.

There is also some talk that Apple is waiting for Verizon to roll out its much anticipated LTE network which will commonly be referred to as 4G. This transition from the current CDMA network to the new LTE network will of course take some time. I’m not exactly sure if the iPhone which will eventually go to Verizon will first be a CDMA compatible iPhone or if Apple will wait to release a LTE iPhone on Verizon.

So just because Steve Jobs kept on topic with the iPad on Jan. 27th… doesn’t mean that the iPhone is never coming to Verizon. All previous versions of the iPhone were announced in June. There is no reason to suspect otherwise for the 4G iPhone.

That’s the way I see it… I could be wrong.