Fun, Fun, Fun!

Of all my posts, this one has the highest concentration of fun events, which is a great thing.

The MBA was great, albeit quiet. Either Friday 2nd got used to the craziness of the holidays, or guest traffic to the MBA has really slowed down. Perhaps a little of both. The experience of the MBA can be very different from day-to-day, and never exactly the same. There are days that are similar, but never identical. The interesting event of this week was not actually out on the fllor, but in the guide lounge.

My shift is a self-proclaimed shift of mavericks, wackos, rebels, and grumps. I love it! There is a resistance to the mainstream MBA way of doing things, and a desire to change things for the better in how things work. Two of my shift members, Harry and Tobie, as well as an ex-member of the shift, Juliette, had a great discussion/venting session about problems that the MBA has, and how they can fix those problems. Amazing, just astounding to hear these minds.

My bus ride was fairly action-packed. When I arrived at the bus stop, there were 3 other bike already there, owned by 3 college-aged men in a group. The bus can only hold 2 bikes on the rack provided for bikes. Myself and one of the college kids ended up sitting on the bus, holding our bikes in place, with our hands, the whole trip. Slight soreness of the arms was experienced, but aside from that, no problems.

Friday night was the River youth lock-in, which I did not attend. But Dad and I were there until about 11:50, and we had tons of fun. First was mini-golf, which was hilarious! I was awful, not one hole in one, and many 7's, which is the worst possible. Amazingly enough, losing was not such a big deal, because the other members of my group were hilarious. Big thanks to Jose, Dad, and Kyle for being great fun! After mini-golf, the whole group which numbered perhaps 10 or 11, plus 6 or 7 adults. At the ministry center we played games. My personal favorite used nerf balls from Dollar Tree as ammo for a chaotic game of ball tag, but without anyone being "it", just throwing the ball at whoever. So fun!!! A multitude of great shots, head shots, face shots, jumping-up-in-the-air shots, everyone-throwing-at-one-person-at-the-same-time shots, and my personal favorite, laughing-so-hard-that-you-aim-at-one-person-and-hit-someone-else shots. Tragically, we were missing a key element of our group. Jesse, broke his ankle the day of the event, and as of last notice needed minor surgery if all went well.

After sleeping about 5 hours, I woke up to get ready for the SOC oceanography cruise. The cruise was delightful! The weather was amazingly good, almost summer-like. Last time I went on a SOC cruise the weather fell right between awful and plague-like, so this trip was delightful. Add in the fact that we saw at least 5 gray whales coming up for air, going back down, repeat, the trip was pretty fun.

My cool thing of this weekend was finding out that I will be involved with SOC next year, and hopefully the year after, but not as an Ambassador, but as an intern, making a documentary about SOC, which will be awesome! Thanks to Jefferey for making things happen!!!

SHARKS BEAT RED WINGS!!!!

This weekend has been a great weekend, a lot, lot of fun.
Thanks to those who semi-contendedly stayed at home!

My other cool thing is Gmail stickers, which show me shortcuts in my Gmail, as well as brand me a Gmail user.

Good night!