make something cool everyday

Make Something Cool Everyday 2009

From LaserBread in the "Make Something Cool Everyday" pool on Flickr.

rave season

Spring is Rave Season:

Rave #1: Zombie party; not so awesome but ScoundrelMatt was the DJ (come on matt, I don't really think you're a scoundrel, I just say that to differentiate between all the other matts in the world) which was awesome.

Rave #2: T-Home Annual Rave; different than last year but some things were the same. Couches in the yard, ravers, glowsticks, and the POlice.

just enjoy the show

I realized I never updated on what happened in Seaside.
So in a nutshell our trip consisted of:

• Hours and hours crammed in the Buick
• Hours of entertainment from Lydia's dreadlocking adventures
  
• Chadwick and Ashley's apartment and Psycho-Samson-Attack-Cat
• alligators in Alabama
• Janoodle's slight obsession with Piggly-Wigglies and small towns in Alabama named Eufaula
• Seaside; beautiful cottage with bunk-beds in the hall
• Ocean kayaking!
• Surrogate grandparents galore
• is anyone NOT sunburned?
• 2 bikes for 6 girls = 4 girls on 2 bikes = PAIN
• Shopping in Seaside; meeting our man-drama-laiden-Next Door Neighbor-who-works-at-the-juice-bar-and-gets-to-shower-outside-year-round.
• Live music from Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes and hanging out band/playing Partner-Tag
• House dinners on the deck
• Sunsets/sunrises
• Dolphins
• Shells and sharktooth and sandcastles/coldtubs (do you know who our 5th president was?)
• Charades on the beach and Lydia's made-up Book Game
  
• Seaside food; bracelets; key-lime pie! and goodbye beach...
• Hello massively long drive home
• NO MORE SUBWAY
• More of Janoodles obsession with Piggly-Wiggly and Eufaula
  
• Natanya's friends in Charlotte
• Kristen's home and one amazing and well needed home-cooked dinner from her parents
• Our Anthem: Lenka "The Show"
• WELCOME HOME!!

P.S. Not all the photos are ones I took; the good ones are from Ashley Brammer :)

chimneys, all natural

Somewhere I haven't been before; Natural Chimney park. The drive is absolutely beautiful and definitely worth it. There is also a great trail which takes you to the top of the chimneys. Of course you aren't supposed to climb on them, but not much is stopping you either. The park is a little run down; but the chimneys are still beautiful. I wonder what it would be like to be hiking along in the wilderness and just come across something like that?

The only other thing I can't figure out; why isn't it "chimnies" when it's plural?

invisible children

The LRA rebel army in Africa continues to massacre people and abduct children.

The Invisible Children organization works internationally to bring the leader of the LRA, Joseph Kony, to justice and rescue the abducted children.



Watch The Rescue, or read about the Current Situation in Uganda, the Congo and Southern Sudan.

great beard, great music

I bought Ray LaMontagne's new album a while ago and I truly can't stop listening to it.

I actually bought the album without listening to it first. I may have been slightly influenced by his nice beard. Fortunately nice beards don't often disappoint.

garden bug

Turns out we're not the only ones with the gardening bug. Girls House, White House, whats the difference really? We haven't planted anything yet, but we're digging and digging and digging...