Clear Creek Flooding...

This patio that Bethany is standing on is supposed to be above water...

Relaxing Days...

Bethany has been visiting me the last few days.  After my physics test I had no homework so it was the perfect opportunity for us to just hang out and have a  good time.  We have toured the campus, walked through Golden, watched movies, cooked, toured Clear Creek and several other things.  Clear Creek is flooding somewhat so we played in the water a little bit.  After walking that many miles a day, we decided to watch older 'scary' movies, namely Ghostbusters and Men In Black.  It's been fun!

My First Repeated Cooking Lesson...

Tonight I learned how to make this delightful meal.  Kory taught me how to saute vegetables and fry eggs.  What you see in the picture is toast with cheese on top.  Then fried egg and small pieces of carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, and sugar snap peas.  The trouble was timing the toast, egg and vegetables just right.  There was definitely some dashing around, burnt butter and annoyance on my part.  I'm not even going to tell you what happened with one egg, but Kory and I had never seen anything like it.  Yuck!  The meal that actually made it through the whole process was really good though!  Cool beans, I can kinda cook.  

A Typical Day...

Many of you have expressed an interest in knowing how I spend my time here at summer school.  It's really not that interesting since the same thing happens day after day, but here it goes...

• 6:15am ~ my alarm goes off.  The sun is always shining and its beautiful outside.
• 7:15 ~ I head out the door to walk to the school.  I take the scenic route, and stop and talk to the maintenance people who are out working sometimes.  Everyone is so friendly!
• 7:45 ~ The first place I go is to work.  I love my job!  Most often I am working on the website for the Steel Research Center. 
• 8:45 ~ I text as much as I can with my family.  This is one of the only times I can talk to them during the day, so I text between work and math.  
• 9:00 ~ I am in calculus class taking notes furiously.  There is so much to write in such a short time!
• 11:00 ~ I eat lunch while walking from calculus to my physics class.  During this time the physics teachers hold office hours.  That means I get a lot of homework done.  
• 1:00 ~ Physics lecture and studio.  That is a lot of physics and it's not done yet!
• 4:00 ~ Homework help for physics.  Excellent time to get more help on homework. 
• 6:00 ~ The physics studio is locked up, so we relocate to the lounge area and do all our calculus homework.  There is not nearly as much of that.  
• 7:00 ~ We walk back to the apartment.  Time for dinner (where something will of course go wrong), more physics homework, and a shower.  
• 10:00 ~ Time for some journaling and reading my Bible.  
• 10:30 ~ Lights out!  I'm generally asleep pretty instantly.

Yep, that's my entire day.  Most of it seems to be physics.  I eat, breath and dream physics at this point.  

Unexpected Bonuses...

• Discovering my favourite calculus teacher at CSM is my teacher this time (I had him as a sub once)...
• Having two Physics teachers who will stay 4-5 extra hours after class to answer questions...
• Kory teaching me how to cook (the baked potatoes were wonderful)...
• Finding a scenic route to school with less hills...
• Being able to go to bed early here (and actually sleep)...
• Beautiful neighborhoods and parks to walk in...
• Physics studio partner who has taken the class before...
• Having a half hour walk in the morning to wake me up...
• Two suite mates who are almost never here, but when they are, they're quite nice...
• A raise at work...
• Time to text with my family between classes...
• Scheduled time to read my Bible and journal daily...

Minor Difficulties...

• I stuck my finger in a hole on the bed frame while talking only to discover I couldn't get it out...
• Did you know there is a label on the bottom of a cooking pot?  Definitely nearly burnt the apartment down...
• Shin splints, its funny, I am never out of breath, it's just so many hills!
• Every time Kory walks somewhere, so gets blisters.
• Eating Raw potato skin (not recommended)
• Attempting to assembly Kory's chair

Hitting the Ground Running...

Today was my first official day of summer school.  Two hours of calculus, two hours of errands and three long hours of physics.  Thus far its not too bad.  I have excellent teachers.  However, I am exhausted, have a ton of homework, and need to cook dinner, so I'll catch you guys up later.  

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Today is Grandma's Birthday and we have family in town to celebrate.  Uncle Tom, Aunt Susan, Alivia and Andrea are visiting from Indiana.  Everyone is having a wonderful time hanging out and getting reacquainted.  Tonight we are doing soup and sundaes to celebrate!

Feel The Burn!

Oops!  Wrong kind.  My sisters, Mom and I went to the pool yesterday for for some time in the sun just hanging out.  We all took books and goofed off for a while.  Everyone thought we were being so careful by reapplying sunscreen frequently.  Yeah, guess we weren't that careful.  We are all aching from the sunburn.  Bad sunburn.  Ouch!

Grandpa's Unforgettable Birthday...

Grandpa has a thing for dogs.  He and Annie are completely inseparable, needing each other to survive.  This morning Grandpa and I couldn't find Bethany.  Mom and Amy were at the doctor getting injections in Amy's feet.  We found out that Bethany was helping some people try to find a fluffy white puppy.  These people were house sitting the puppy, but it had escaped.  We found Bet crossing Peterson Road limping.  Turns out, she had been running around barefoot for a while looking for this dog and had developed blisters.  We picked her up and it was my turn to look for the dog.  My feet are very calloused, so I didn't have any trouble until I ran across the intersection full of broken glass from a car accident the other night.  Now we have Amy with feet numbed by injections, Bet's blistered feet and my feet a little sore from glass.  I'm the only one walking well right now.  No dog, by the way.  We never could find the little puppy, so we are hoping someone else did.  It's definitely been an exciting birthday for grandpa, who was with us the whole time.  We planned to go get ice cream for his birthday tonight, but at this point I think will just have to bring some back for my two sisters who can't walk.  Crazy.  

Good For The Soul!

Daddy, Amy and I went to see 'Iron Man' tonight.  While they both had seen it at least once already, I had not even seen many previews of the movie.  It was an absolutely awesome movie.  We all agreed that what made the movie even better than expected was the man sitting behind us.  He had the most contagious laughter!  It was obvious that, like me, he had also not seen the movie previously.  At every funny and semi-funny part he would just crack up.  Everyone in the audience couldn't help it, we had to laugh with him!  It was not an obnoxious laugh, but a fun laugh that put us all in a good mood immediately.  Everyone was glad he was in the theater.