I had forgotten what our blog even looked like... haha...
Now it's the day after our last day of classes for the semester. More relaxed than the last post... Now just some finals to prepare for, and an assignmenty one to do.
I'm ready to go home... ready for a break! Let me rant one more time that all semester one professor said that we had to take the final at the university assigned time (Friday of finals week). To get an exception we'd have to talk to someone in the department office. I even had emailed the professor to be sure... (with no response)... So back in September we bought tickets to fly home on Saturday. A couple of weeks ago in that class some people were whining that we had to stay until friday, so after not much of a fight, he changes things and says that we could take the final on the last day of class! why could that not be the case all semester? so i took it a week ago on the last day of class and it was not a big deal at all... basically a completion sort of thing.... so as you might have guessed, i am very annoyed about that. i'm sorry that you could not follow directions, or you poorly planned, but it is not fair that someone who tried to follow what we had been told all along is now being PUNISHED!! my "scheduled" final for thursday is also now not "scheduled" for then... i can take it any day monday-wednesday. i also can take my math test on tuesday instead of wednesday... so... if i had known all of this i could have gone home on wednesday, or even thursday or friday! but no... i'll wait until saturday.
home is home and i just want to go home. i haven't gotten to go home since last christmas time.... i'm excited for christmas, but i am most excited to be with my family at home.
thank you for listening... : ) don't be mistaken... i'm very happy to be with will and at least on those days that i'll be here still i will be with him : ) will is my best friend : )
happy end of the semester!
Ash and Will
We are a happy family! : )
Friday, December 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Thanksgiving is right up there on my list of favorite times of the year : ) Lots of good food, family, and being thankful for all of our many many blessings! For me it and Christmas kind of blend together in the middle. I don't value Thanksgiving any less, the Christmas feeling is just part of Thanksgiving to me. Just like I did with my family all growing up, Will and I put up our "Thankful Chart" a couple of weeks ago (we were a little slow)... it's fun to think of all the things we have to be grateful for..... I love traditions : )
My practicum ended yesterday. I miss all of those cute kids, but this means I can continue on and move on to the next step...
My practicum ended yesterday. I miss all of those cute kids, but this means I can continue on and move on to the next step...
Sunday, August 30, 2009
a school lamentation
school school go away, come again another day....
i'm a proponent of school - i really am. i want to teach elementary school and instill a love of learning in kids. i just don't want to go to school tomorrow. i'm excited for new classes, but not for 2 and 3 hour classes... and i don't feel like i remember enough about independent study to go back to work there. luckily i will probably get to spend some time talking to tech support getting all my passwords reset...
on the bright side, this is my second to last semester (on campus)... and maybe some day i really will be done. for now i will brace myself to be on campus from 8 am to 7 pm tomorrow. that is all my classes and work. don't worry, i do have one 50 minute break in there... i'll live. : )
also, tomorrow is alan's birthday! everyone loves a birthday and everyone loves cake (ok, not everyone, but i do : )
i still need to write down where tomorrow's classes are and find all my stuff. no, i don't know what i'm going to wear... clothes... : ) more later, it's a school night...
i'm a proponent of school - i really am. i want to teach elementary school and instill a love of learning in kids. i just don't want to go to school tomorrow. i'm excited for new classes, but not for 2 and 3 hour classes... and i don't feel like i remember enough about independent study to go back to work there. luckily i will probably get to spend some time talking to tech support getting all my passwords reset...
on the bright side, this is my second to last semester (on campus)... and maybe some day i really will be done. for now i will brace myself to be on campus from 8 am to 7 pm tomorrow. that is all my classes and work. don't worry, i do have one 50 minute break in there... i'll live. : )
also, tomorrow is alan's birthday! everyone loves a birthday and everyone loves cake (ok, not everyone, but i do : )
i still need to write down where tomorrow's classes are and find all my stuff. no, i don't know what i'm going to wear... clothes... : ) more later, it's a school night...
Saturday, August 15, 2009
last hurrah for Los Alamos
I haven't posted anything on this blog yet, and I decided I'd better get with the program and write something before the summer is all over. we're down to just a few more days in Los Alamos, then it's back to Provo and school, college football, and civilization, just to name a few of the changes we'll have to go through. it'll be different to no longer live on Central Avenue at the center of the (Los Alamos) universe, but we'll survive. luckily our new apartment is right across from the Wymount creamery, so we'll still be able to buy milk at a moment's notice.
today we went to Bandalier National Monument, which is nearby. I've been here for two summers and still hadn't been until today...shame on me. but, since our friendly neighborhood National Parks Service decided to make today a free fee day, we decided today was as good a time as any, plus, it's not like we can go next weekend. (we'll be at Mesa Verde and Arches and on the road back.) last time it was a free day we went to Carlsbad Caverns, but unfortunately we got there on Friday and the park was only free on Saturday and Sunday. so we paid and our admission was valid for Friday and Saturday, but since Saturday was free anyway we unfortunately did not get the freebie. so today was a triumph of sorts for us, finally getting something for free. (plus, it was founder's day at Smith's today so we got free sandwiches, wraps, bakery goods, chips and salsa, fruit, punch, shrimp, roast beef, chicken...the most extensive grocery free samples I've ever seen. they were even giving free samples of chardonnay. we didn't have any, but we were pretty surprised that it's legal to do that in a child saturated grocery store...)
so after driving behind several bikers for a while (several of whom were probably at least four times as old as I am...well close) we made it up and then got to climbing those ladders...
so for those of you who have never heard of Bandalier, its main feature is several hundred cliff dwellings built by the ancestors of the Native Americans who live in the pueblos around New Mexico. most of them are of the "do not lean on, sit on, stand on, walk on, touch, etc." variety (we did see one younger kid (and his harried dad) get the wrath of our usually mild-mannered, grandfatherly park ranger for violating this policy (the walking on part) - it scared us enough that we resisted the urge to do any of our own unapproved climbing), but there are a few that have been reinforced with concrete which are accessible to the average park visitor. if there's a ladder leaning against one of them, it's fair game. so, we took advantage.
here we are inside one of them. apparently the rock inside was blackened by the ancient inhabitants. (actually it was only a few hundred years ago, so I don't know if they can be called ancient.)
after climbing a few ladders with five or six rungs, we decided we were up for a challenge, so we hiked a half mile or so to the base of the "Alcove House", where we were greeted by four or so more substantial ladders similar to this one...
so we ascended 140 feet and saw some other cool stuff, like little cavities in the rock we could hide ourselves in.
the pictures don't show it, but it was actually pretty crowded (since it was free day and probably the last hurrah before summer's end for a lot of the locals, since school is starting next week for the Los Alamos schools and some other districts have started already. luckily our last hurrah doesn't come for a few more weeks.) have you ever seen a traffic jam of fifteen or so people waiting to go up a ladder when fifteen or so people are coming down said ladder? especially when the path leading to/from the ladder is approximately one and a half feet wide? it's not pretty. we decided not to take a picture, though, to spare our loyal readers the trauma.
so that was probably the highlight of the day (since the rest of the day consisted of thoroughly cleaning our kitchen and bathroom. we don't think they've been thoroughly cleaned since a time long ago, predating by far the day when we first moved in. that both incriminates us and the previous tenants.)
in other news, we changed our blog template (hopefully to one that will allow comments.) so feel free to comment now.
at the rate that we've been posting over the life of our blog....we'll let you know what's going on in our life sometime in late September!
today we went to Bandalier National Monument, which is nearby. I've been here for two summers and still hadn't been until today...shame on me. but, since our friendly neighborhood National Parks Service decided to make today a free fee day, we decided today was as good a time as any, plus, it's not like we can go next weekend. (we'll be at Mesa Verde and Arches and on the road back.) last time it was a free day we went to Carlsbad Caverns, but unfortunately we got there on Friday and the park was only free on Saturday and Sunday. so we paid and our admission was valid for Friday and Saturday, but since Saturday was free anyway we unfortunately did not get the freebie. so today was a triumph of sorts for us, finally getting something for free. (plus, it was founder's day at Smith's today so we got free sandwiches, wraps, bakery goods, chips and salsa, fruit, punch, shrimp, roast beef, chicken...the most extensive grocery free samples I've ever seen. they were even giving free samples of chardonnay. we didn't have any, but we were pretty surprised that it's legal to do that in a child saturated grocery store...)
so after driving behind several bikers for a while (several of whom were probably at least four times as old as I am...well close) we made it up and then got to climbing those ladders...
so for those of you who have never heard of Bandalier, its main feature is several hundred cliff dwellings built by the ancestors of the Native Americans who live in the pueblos around New Mexico. most of them are of the "do not lean on, sit on, stand on, walk on, touch, etc." variety (we did see one younger kid (and his harried dad) get the wrath of our usually mild-mannered, grandfatherly park ranger for violating this policy (the walking on part) - it scared us enough that we resisted the urge to do any of our own unapproved climbing), but there are a few that have been reinforced with concrete which are accessible to the average park visitor. if there's a ladder leaning against one of them, it's fair game. so, we took advantage.
here we are inside one of them. apparently the rock inside was blackened by the ancient inhabitants. (actually it was only a few hundred years ago, so I don't know if they can be called ancient.)
after climbing a few ladders with five or six rungs, we decided we were up for a challenge, so we hiked a half mile or so to the base of the "Alcove House", where we were greeted by four or so more substantial ladders similar to this one...
so we ascended 140 feet and saw some other cool stuff, like little cavities in the rock we could hide ourselves in.
the pictures don't show it, but it was actually pretty crowded (since it was free day and probably the last hurrah before summer's end for a lot of the locals, since school is starting next week for the Los Alamos schools and some other districts have started already. luckily our last hurrah doesn't come for a few more weeks.) have you ever seen a traffic jam of fifteen or so people waiting to go up a ladder when fifteen or so people are coming down said ladder? especially when the path leading to/from the ladder is approximately one and a half feet wide? it's not pretty. we decided not to take a picture, though, to spare our loyal readers the trauma.
so that was probably the highlight of the day (since the rest of the day consisted of thoroughly cleaning our kitchen and bathroom. we don't think they've been thoroughly cleaned since a time long ago, predating by far the day when we first moved in. that both incriminates us and the previous tenants.)
in other news, we changed our blog template (hopefully to one that will allow comments.) so feel free to comment now.
at the rate that we've been posting over the life of our blog....we'll let you know what's going on in our life sometime in late September!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
a work in progress...
so maybe we aren't as good as we thought we'd be at posting on a blog... it's not like we're extremely busy or anything... but we have been doing lots of fun things all summer - i promise! for example, we just got back a couple of days ago from going to carlsbad caverns and guadalupe mountains national parks!! : )
we just don't do very well at posting... we're just more used to calling and writing emails. i like it that way... it's more personal.
maybe we'll have a blogging party later.... and when i say maybe, i mean maybe... : )
we just don't do very well at posting... we're just more used to calling and writing emails. i like it that way... it's more personal.
maybe we'll have a blogging party later.... and when i say maybe, i mean maybe... : )
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
the june post
i realized that if we didn't post today we would have missed june completely... and what a shame that would have been!
in case you were worried, we're still alive. that's what the girls outside were supposed to come report every so often today. but i didn't know that for a while... until lucy (name changed : ) told me she told the girls to come tell me that every little bit while i was the only one there... don't tell julia (another changed name... : )
well, we've had a heap of adventures and good times in june that we will put up soon. we've got to get through a couple more work days before the long holiday weekend!! on the priority list is the fantastic personalized tour we got of oklahoma city and the super fun times we had visiting linds and alan's happy fam! : )
i think the 4th of july might be my second favorite holiday... maybe 3rd... it kinda ties with thanksgiving - christmas being the number one. regardless of the number, i'm pretty excited for the 4th of july!!! : ) i think a big part of it is traditions... we'll have to see what los alamos has to offer. wait.. unless there are some surprises, it may not be much. but we'll go to the church picnic/potluck and to the park for the fireworks... should be fun enough, just different.
yay america! : )
in case you were worried, we're still alive. that's what the girls outside were supposed to come report every so often today. but i didn't know that for a while... until lucy (name changed : ) told me she told the girls to come tell me that every little bit while i was the only one there... don't tell julia (another changed name... : )
well, we've had a heap of adventures and good times in june that we will put up soon. we've got to get through a couple more work days before the long holiday weekend!! on the priority list is the fantastic personalized tour we got of oklahoma city and the super fun times we had visiting linds and alan's happy fam! : )
i think the 4th of july might be my second favorite holiday... maybe 3rd... it kinda ties with thanksgiving - christmas being the number one. regardless of the number, i'm pretty excited for the 4th of july!!! : ) i think a big part of it is traditions... we'll have to see what los alamos has to offer. wait.. unless there are some surprises, it may not be much. but we'll go to the church picnic/potluck and to the park for the fireworks... should be fun enough, just different.
yay america! : )
Sunday, May 31, 2009
the waybacks
after being here nearly 4 weeks we decided to check out the concert on friday night that was the week's event for the summer concert series here in los alamos. this one was actually just a couple of blocks over from our home, so we walked. it was a nice night, and a nice night for a free concert. the environment was a little different than we're used to, but all in all it was pretty family friendly... it was supposed to be from 7-10... we walked over at about 8:30, of course right when they're going to take a break... we had just eaten dinner, so there was no reason to buy anything from the overpriced vendors, we didn't have chairs to sit down, and we didn't really know anyone else... so we walked down to smith's for a few minutes for some things we needed... when we got back, luckily they were about to get started again!!! (we looked them up on google, and apparently they are real, and didn't just join up for the concert...) so when they're advertised as "bluegrass, newgrass, something, and rock" we were waiting to see just what we'd been missing out on our entire lives!! just what is newgrass anyway? ha... so the guy with the mic says they're going to play such and such song, then one that "you would all recognize".... good one... : ) naturally, we didn't recognize either song... and we had a little bit of trouble trying to tell if we had switched songs yet or not... after about 2.5 songs we decided we were done and headed home, but it was a good culturing experience. moral of the story: check out your local free summer concert series... you don't know what you're missing! there are plenty more this summer that sound like they might be a bit more promising for our tastes... we'll have to check them out....
and if you don't believe that we really went.... we have t-shirts to prove it... free from the sponsor: our local del norte credit union. they say: "the waybacks", the date (may 29, 2009), and los alamos, nm.... there is also a shameless advertisement from del norte on the back.. : )
will enjoyed himself so much he's already wearing his shirt : )
and if you don't believe that we really went.... we have t-shirts to prove it... free from the sponsor: our local del norte credit union. they say: "the waybacks", the date (may 29, 2009), and los alamos, nm.... there is also a shameless advertisement from del norte on the back.. : )
will enjoyed himself so much he's already wearing his shirt : )
Monday, May 25, 2009
will's birthday and our engagement anniversary!! : )
today is our engagement anniversary!! yay!! : ) what a happy and exciting day it was... i was a little sad when will had to go back to los alamos, but i knew it would only be 3 months until we got married! this summer we don't have to be apart, and we could enjoy our whole memorial day weekend together!
friday was will's birthday! and he didn't have to work.. : ) we didn't get to go camping the night before like we wanted because of the rain, but we'll just try again another time...we still had our foil dinners - cooked in the oven.. : ) so on friday we had a fun day going to the science museum, relaxing and other fun things. i only had to work a little so we had a good, fun birthday party for will's 24th! this was his last year he could have just one pack of candles... next year we'll have to get a nice pink one to put with all his blue ones... : ) a triple chocolate fudge cake with brownie ice cream.... mmm.... so much chocolate!!! it was super fun : )
saturday we went to albuquerque... remember that song from 1st grade? albuquerque he's my turkey.... will's only ever heard it from me.. : ) it's only about an hour and forty? minutes away... we drove through what seemed like cats and dogs rain for a little while, but we were able to go to the temple in the morning which was nice : ) then we went to what felt like a billion other places... a good, long day : ) among other things, we went to redeem will's birthday coupons.. we ate just about as much as we could at red robin... we'd been looking forward to it for a while : ) it was one of those times (like thanksgiving) where you tell yourself you're never going to eat again! and then you always break that promise later.. : ) we also got baskin robbins and cold stone ice cream : ) between the red robin and ice cream we went and found my parents' old apt complex from when they used to live in albequerque, right after they left byu... just for a little while. that was pretty neat! we also went to check out the unm campus (univ of new mexico)... we still needed to walk around some to ease our poor little tummies... : ) on the way home we went on a wild walmart chase in bernalillo... just for a few items... could they make it any harder to find?! if they would have put it where they said it was, it wouldn't have been so bad, but we drove to the end of don tomas one way, then the other way and never found it... with some other roundabout getting lostings... finally, by a stroke of luck, just beyond some casino (who was housing a sold out WWF match that night) we found it! then they couldn't even fix the battery in will's watch... good thing we got our bread and stir fry sauce we can't get here in los alamos... : ) when we were coming out of walmart the rain was really coming down... we thought it was cats and dogs before, but this was seriously cats and dogs this time... maybe even... cheetahs and wolves! as we drove up to temple it must have really just been gerbils and... lab rats... (that's what will said in the car... imagine if it was really raining lab rats... sick!) anyway... in the 20-25 seconds it took us to *run* to our car, we got super duper wet! big chunky rain, flashes of lightning in the sky, thunder, the parking lot was looking kinda floody... in albuquerque they have signs various places saying not to drive there if it's flooded... but we saw no such signs in bernalillo.. : ) so we drove home, enjoying the pretty clouds, views, etc... we've enjoyed our long weekend... : )
ps... i very much love and appreciate skype... that was my little plug/advertisement
psagain... i even more love and appreciate will.... : )
this is us at the bradbury science museum... about nuclear warfare, the manhattan project, and current lab research... hours of fun... : )
will just opened one of his birthday presents... apple cinnamon cheerios... his favorite!!! : ) can you see the grocery ads i wrapped them in?... : )
will getting ready to blow out his candles!!! don't worry... he got them all...
enjoying my raspberry limeade at red robin... mmmmm..... : )
out the car window as we drove home... it wasn't raining at this point, but the clouds looked so cool!!
sitting down to our memorial day "picnic"... : ) chicken salad sandwiches, potato salad, chips, strawberry kiwi juice.... delicious : )
this is camel rock... looks just like one! and whether it's man made or not... they've banked off of it by building, yes, camel rock casino... : ) a joy to see each time we drive to santa fe or albuquerque... : )
friday was will's birthday! and he didn't have to work.. : ) we didn't get to go camping the night before like we wanted because of the rain, but we'll just try again another time...we still had our foil dinners - cooked in the oven.. : ) so on friday we had a fun day going to the science museum, relaxing and other fun things. i only had to work a little so we had a good, fun birthday party for will's 24th! this was his last year he could have just one pack of candles... next year we'll have to get a nice pink one to put with all his blue ones... : ) a triple chocolate fudge cake with brownie ice cream.... mmm.... so much chocolate!!! it was super fun : )
saturday we went to albuquerque... remember that song from 1st grade? albuquerque he's my turkey.... will's only ever heard it from me.. : ) it's only about an hour and forty? minutes away... we drove through what seemed like cats and dogs rain for a little while, but we were able to go to the temple in the morning which was nice : ) then we went to what felt like a billion other places... a good, long day : ) among other things, we went to redeem will's birthday coupons.. we ate just about as much as we could at red robin... we'd been looking forward to it for a while : ) it was one of those times (like thanksgiving) where you tell yourself you're never going to eat again! and then you always break that promise later.. : ) we also got baskin robbins and cold stone ice cream : ) between the red robin and ice cream we went and found my parents' old apt complex from when they used to live in albequerque, right after they left byu... just for a little while. that was pretty neat! we also went to check out the unm campus (univ of new mexico)... we still needed to walk around some to ease our poor little tummies... : ) on the way home we went on a wild walmart chase in bernalillo... just for a few items... could they make it any harder to find?! if they would have put it where they said it was, it wouldn't have been so bad, but we drove to the end of don tomas one way, then the other way and never found it... with some other roundabout getting lostings... finally, by a stroke of luck, just beyond some casino (who was housing a sold out WWF match that night) we found it! then they couldn't even fix the battery in will's watch... good thing we got our bread and stir fry sauce we can't get here in los alamos... : ) when we were coming out of walmart the rain was really coming down... we thought it was cats and dogs before, but this was seriously cats and dogs this time... maybe even... cheetahs and wolves! as we drove up to temple it must have really just been gerbils and... lab rats... (that's what will said in the car... imagine if it was really raining lab rats... sick!) anyway... in the 20-25 seconds it took us to *run* to our car, we got super duper wet! big chunky rain, flashes of lightning in the sky, thunder, the parking lot was looking kinda floody... in albuquerque they have signs various places saying not to drive there if it's flooded... but we saw no such signs in bernalillo.. : ) so we drove home, enjoying the pretty clouds, views, etc... we've enjoyed our long weekend... : )
ps... i very much love and appreciate skype... that was my little plug/advertisement
psagain... i even more love and appreciate will.... : )
this is us at the bradbury science museum... about nuclear warfare, the manhattan project, and current lab research... hours of fun... : )
will just opened one of his birthday presents... apple cinnamon cheerios... his favorite!!! : ) can you see the grocery ads i wrapped them in?... : )
will getting ready to blow out his candles!!! don't worry... he got them all...
enjoying my raspberry limeade at red robin... mmmmm..... : )
out the car window as we drove home... it wasn't raining at this point, but the clouds looked so cool!!
sitting down to our memorial day "picnic"... : ) chicken salad sandwiches, potato salad, chips, strawberry kiwi juice.... delicious : )
this is camel rock... looks just like one! and whether it's man made or not... they've banked off of it by building, yes, camel rock casino... : ) a joy to see each time we drive to santa fe or albuquerque... : )
Thursday, May 21, 2009
monopoly... 5 days later...
so... we started our monopoly game last saturday. with only 2 of us it went fairly quickly to get several properties bought. (growing up my family always played you had to go around the board once before you could buy, but will and i decided to have everything fair game from the beginning) so we went on our spending spree for several turns each, hoping for "good" properties... i don't know how it happened, i suppose i was a little wiser with my money : ), but will was hurting... so i let him catch up (winning a truck load of money from free parking - which evidently the rules state that that space is not for winning money, but for "resting"... boring... : ) so of course that was the "traditional" jackpot spot) well, i soon wished i hadn't played so easy on him because before too long he had tons of money! thousands more than me!
now, this game went on for 5 days... we'd play a little each evening (most evenings... not all) and it sat out on the coffee table each day for us to think and strategize.. : ) sometimes we'd just have discussions about what deals we might make with each other... it all hinged on st. charles place! that was the last property to be bought... it took until last night! each time one of us would come up on it we'd count how many we'd need to roll to land on it... either that, or free parking, which we knew had not a truck load this time, but a boat load... more like an ocean liner load... well, i ended up getting st. charles place, and by that time, neither of us cared so much about the "deals" we could do... (because at that point none were in will's favor.. : ) and much to my sadness... will soon after got free parking... it ended up being 1999... that's nearly 2000 dollars!!! and he took forever counting it... : ) haha well, at this point, never mind the fact that i had 3 monopolies, all with houses... they were the wimpy ones (light blue, pink, and red - red's not too bad).... with a house on a light blue all you get is 30... lame... by this time will had the corner by "go to jail." whatever those colors are... yellow and green. so he had a death row corner for me (which he had 2-3 houses on everything over there!) that i luckily kept missing... : ) (even jail was better than paying 800-1000!) well.. eventually i landed on him and owed him 900 or so... i had to clear all my houses from two of my monopolies! not long after, i owed 800some, so i cleared the other houses... : ) next time i had to start mortgaging things... and on my last turn i believe i owed 1000 and i had to mortgage everything else i had!! i was only able to offer 852, a get out of jail free, and my humble little iron piece... : ) will won.... there's always next time... : )
we had tons of fun and love monopoly!! probably the play by play of our game wasn't very exciting... but we're having such a fun summer! we're not necessarily in the butchart gardens, but it's fun to be in a new place having new experiences. there are plenty of neat things down here and we should enjoy them while we're here... and best of all, we just work during the day, and have fun and relax in the evenings and on weekends! no homework for us : ) it's a little harder to relax when our smoke alarm is going off... but we'll hopefully get all that figured out eventually.. : ) if nothing else, it is just for the summer... : )
we have tons of fun plans for the weekend and it's will's birthday tomorrow! : )
now, this game went on for 5 days... we'd play a little each evening (most evenings... not all) and it sat out on the coffee table each day for us to think and strategize.. : ) sometimes we'd just have discussions about what deals we might make with each other... it all hinged on st. charles place! that was the last property to be bought... it took until last night! each time one of us would come up on it we'd count how many we'd need to roll to land on it... either that, or free parking, which we knew had not a truck load this time, but a boat load... more like an ocean liner load... well, i ended up getting st. charles place, and by that time, neither of us cared so much about the "deals" we could do... (because at that point none were in will's favor.. : ) and much to my sadness... will soon after got free parking... it ended up being 1999... that's nearly 2000 dollars!!! and he took forever counting it... : ) haha well, at this point, never mind the fact that i had 3 monopolies, all with houses... they were the wimpy ones (light blue, pink, and red - red's not too bad).... with a house on a light blue all you get is 30... lame... by this time will had the corner by "go to jail." whatever those colors are... yellow and green. so he had a death row corner for me (which he had 2-3 houses on everything over there!) that i luckily kept missing... : ) (even jail was better than paying 800-1000!) well.. eventually i landed on him and owed him 900 or so... i had to clear all my houses from two of my monopolies! not long after, i owed 800some, so i cleared the other houses... : ) next time i had to start mortgaging things... and on my last turn i believe i owed 1000 and i had to mortgage everything else i had!! i was only able to offer 852, a get out of jail free, and my humble little iron piece... : ) will won.... there's always next time... : )
we had tons of fun and love monopoly!! probably the play by play of our game wasn't very exciting... but we're having such a fun summer! we're not necessarily in the butchart gardens, but it's fun to be in a new place having new experiences. there are plenty of neat things down here and we should enjoy them while we're here... and best of all, we just work during the day, and have fun and relax in the evenings and on weekends! no homework for us : ) it's a little harder to relax when our smoke alarm is going off... but we'll hopefully get all that figured out eventually.. : ) if nothing else, it is just for the summer... : )
we have tons of fun plans for the weekend and it's will's birthday tomorrow! : )
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday everyone! This is our first blog post, if you didn't notice... After creating it, we decided to change the layout. We have searched high and low for a good choice... and we'll continue our search. We even looked through all 77 pages of one site - we did find a good one, but it was all in Spanish... After much too much time we chose this flowery one for now.
We've been in Los Alamos for about 2 weeks now. We are enjoying our relaxing time away from school and homework, but with each other. Just yesterday we went to the kite festival in White Rock - good times. There were tons of fun kites to watch - little kids running around with their little kites they made at the kids' workshop (we would have, but we weren't sure they'd let us...) and other "for fun" kite flyers. There were a couple who seemed more experienced, or wanted to be... there was one lonely kite up on the "stunt kite" field, who wasn't there very long, a man with a humongous octopus kite (which never made it very far up, but it was a fun one to watch), and a man with what looked like a homemade box kite... he gave up after about 5 minutes... muttering to himself... : ) It was pretty windy. We also watched as several people untangled their kites from each other. They had some overpriced food booths, a kite vendor, and a 4-H club selling soda, etc.... Oh! and a "kite hospital" to mend kites that faced the "inevitable" (the ad said it : ) bonks and breaks. It was fun to be out in the sun and see the local festival. Sorry, we forgot the camera... But we'll be sure to post other pictures...
We're new to this... give us some time... : ) We almost had a sad ending to this blog and our computer.... Will was tickling me and the computer almost tumbled to the floor! Luckily we're all ok... : )
Monopoly update: although I had to play easy on him for a while until he won about $840 from Free Parking, I believe Will is several thousand dollars richer than I am... he owns 3 of the 4 railroads which is what's draining my funds! But I do have the only monopoly so far...
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