Wednesday, January 17, 2007

By Popular Demand

I've been asked to post a few more of the boat racing pictures so I dug out the really bad ones and tried to make them look a tad better. I've also added a few candids of Tanya and I Sabbath morning. For some reason they aren't in focus but oh well.

Someday I want to be able to do a sad face like Tanya.
Those are authentic Taiwanese chop sticks in my head. And I do mean IN.
The Canoe in the making
The pirates who don't do anything
The Yellow Submarine above water.
And going down...
Taking on a bit of water.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Today's Headline: 20 Boats Sink In The SAU Pool

One of my many bosses, Joylynn, was off on DEEP retreat this weekend so I got to babysit her baby.

Kay Dee is the most lovable dog. She's a mix. I think part Samoyed. We've spent a lot of time walking. Saturday afternoon I took her to Coolidge in the back of my bosses Saturn Vue, Kay Dee's personal (dogonal?) transportation vehicle. It was kind of weird driving a manual SUV.

We ended up getting kicked out of Coolidge Park because they don't apparently allow dogs there. You only see 10 of them every time you go, and 5 as I was leaving. So we crossed the river to the city side where they apparently do.



Saturday night was the cardboard boat race. 20 teams got an hour and a half to build a boat out of cardboard and duct tape. The team that got the most laps before sinking got 200 bucks.

They had some great names. FedEx, The Titanic, The Black Pearl...




For those of you that know him, that's Cory Goodwin in the pink pants. Their team was called the Yellow Submarine. It lived up to its submergible status. They were the first ones to go down. :( in the first heat that is. Some went down almost as soon as they hit water.


This is Team "eh" They were a Canadian team. I am ashamed to say that it took me over an hour to realize why they were named that. I apologize to the Canadian nation. For those of you that don't understand think "Brother Bear and the Canadian Moose."







This team, "Red Bud 7" tied for first. The boats that lasted the longest had put boxes, inside of boxes, inside of boxes. A small tip for you in case you ever want to race a cardboard boat.








The crew switched, they still keep going... Sonya is in the middle of yelling, "I'll never let go Jack! I'll never let go!" they were pretty tired.








The energizer bunny would be proud. However the boat was dead and they are preparing for the grand finale.







The event was a hit... For all that sinking nobody died. Some are thinking of making this an annual event. Probably a good idea.

Speak Better English

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Tired? Find a friend...

Oh this semester. It's gonna kill me. I hate it already. I hate that it takes my meal times and life time. But there will always be things to make it brighter.

10:oo am sitting in Biology bored and losing attention when Rachel pokes me. Her eyes huge, she says, "look what's next to me!" Looking to my right I stare eye to eye with a stiff but snarling creature springing from a trash can with 50 other of it's friends. It's claws ready to rip my face off, eye's glaring. But not to worry it was dead so it couldn't get to me. Tell me why we have to have rigormortised cat in large quantities stuffed in trash cans? I wasn't the only one appalled by the fact that I had been in close proximity with such a creature for almost 50 minutes. For the rest of the class period rebecca made friends with the other side of the room while rachel and I continued to stare in horror. Mind you I've disected many things but this...this was just too freaky.

8:00 pm Tanya and I go for a walk. We must look drunk as we walk down the street staggering as we perform the stories we're telling. Or laughing uncontrolably at our shadows and madly waving hair. Nobody else would find it funny but Tanya always knows what's TRULY funny. Just randomly we decide to hit up the music building and end up singing our hearts out for over an hour even with homework waiting.

God give an extra blessing to those who are shy and lonely for my life revolves around people. What WOULD I do without them?

Monday, January 01, 2007

New Years Eve

Last year my friends Jennifer, Amanda, and I all went to down town Raleigh for First Night. We thought it was fun enough to bring the family this year.

From about 3 pm on they have different shows going on in the surrounding buildings. They have plays, improv, ice sculptures, dancing, concerts, exhibits.... everything. You just have to decide what you want to go to. After all the shows everybody comes back to the main stage for a concert and we wait for the acorn to drop. It was raining intermittenly which added to the excitement.


The four of us all tried to make it under one small umbrella. Ha ha... See what it does to you?

And this is the acorn that they drop. Don't ask me why we have to drop an acorn.











Some happy partiers...

Target Practice


Dad got a BB gun for Christmas so we've spent quite a bit of time with it. So much so that my arms are killing me from pumping the thing.


The pond in the woods behind our house makes for a great place to put a moving target. Plus it's far away from things so we can bring out the pellet gun too. We got that out last night when Ryan and Jenn were here. Some of us are quite good at hitting cans off of logs.

Uncle Kit even showed his stuff. I was quite impressed.

Lindsey tried the old pistol but it doesn't do much... Doesn't Jaclyn look deadly?