The all-church canoe trip was this past weekend, and I am just waiting until tomorrow to upload my pics to Flickr. Dave and Sherwin have already uploaded some pics, and they make me want to get a new camera. My Nikon 3700 has already undergone two periods of time (months at a time!) where it wouldn’t turn on and I thought it was broken. So long as it keeps pulling through, I’ll use it!
We got a late start on Friday, not even leaving until after 7pm. It was pretty much a straight shot south on 71 to Pineville, MO, where the camp is. The last 8 miles of the drive was on a winding road in the middle of nowhere, with no lights, and with two cars right up my butt the whole time. Good times. Upon arriving, a tent had already been set up for us, complete with air mattress and a little battery-powered fan! It was really awesome to not have to set that up, and the tent was huge. More than enough for the three of us Quin-ahues. (Quinlan + Donahue).
Saturday was the “float” trip, but there wasn’t much floating involved. The water was so shallow that I spent more time pushing the canoe than riding in it. Let’s just say that I may not canoe next year. I did get a couple of good sunburns out of the deal, and they are currently making my shoulders itch like crazy. Weird.
That night was spent playing frisbee, soccer, and 6-player Settlers of Catan! We got so hooked that as soon as we came home we started looking around on how to get a copy of it for ourselves, and found a cool little game shop literally right up the street from us. The “Game Cafe” had exactly what we were looking for, and we played tonight for the third night in a row.
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The annual NPH Picnic happened to fall on Wednesday of this past week, and as this is my first NPH picnic to attend, I was quite unsure of what to expect. The day itself began a little different from most, as we were prompted to not wear the usual “business casual” attire, and wore instead jeans, t-shirt, and tennis shoes. That alone was pretty sweet. At 11:00 we were dismissed to a field that is just south of the main office building, which is used pretty much exclusively for this event. First on the agenda: We were herded into an uncomfortably crowded area for about 20 minutes for the company photo, followed by the “picnic” part of the day – hot dogs and hamburgers that were really big and really good. This lasted until about 12:30, at which point the festivities began. There is, every year, some kind of competition which pits representatives from each department against each other to vie for the departmental trophy – a gumball machine. I don’t recall seeing said gumball machine yet, but there is a surprising amount of fervor to acquire it. This year it was a spoof of “The Amazing Year” (Dubbed by NPH as “The Incredible Race”) in which the contestents were paired up with someone else and had to complete a series of events. The events ranged from tag-teaming through the Adrenaline Rush II (monster-sized inflatable thingy, demonstrated by Darren Boyd above) to chronologically lining up different covers from Holiness Today from over the years. There was also digging for some kind of red stone in a sandbox and some other game I didn’t see that included a large plate of sour worms and a “barf bucket.” Our rep, Justin, was challenged by the… challenges… and the elusive trophy continued to remain… elusive.The best part of the afternoon was yet to begin: Frisbee Golf! In the words of one passer-by, “IS wouldn’t even come if we didn’t have frisbee golf.” Upon hearing this, I knew I had to participate and prove myself competant in order to be fully assimilated into this group. (bing and bing). It was a blast, and I took a couple good photos from it too. I did pretty well on the first 6 holes (hula hoops) but alas, the final three would leave me a few points behind Jason.
It was around 2 in the afternoon by this time, and we realized everyone else had gone inside. We took this as our cue that the picnic was over, and it was time to go back to work. Needless to say, it was an extremely productive afternoon.
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Most people only need to make one trip to their local DMV or DOR or whereever they go in order to make adjustments to their drivers license. Although only one trip, it is still annoyingly long enough that as soon as this topic is raised, much murmuring ensues. In the last week, I have made THREE trips, and I still do not have it done. This same thing happened when we first moved out here as well, and this makes for a total of SIX times in twelve months I have had to go and get a number and stand in line. And when I stop boycotting the system, it will make seven.
Last night Julie and Crystal and I went to Beth and Steve’s, for what seems to be the first time since before Spring semester. They bought a house on a street with a cool name. Steve grilled up some “kebabs” (I always thought they were “kebobs” – maybe its a Nebraska thing??) that were really good, followed by a tour of the new place (appliances included as part of an “old lady special”) and trivial pursuit. The idea was that Steve is really good at it, and I am good at being subversive and consistently cause the correct answer to be rejected in favor of another, very much incorrect answer. This proved to not be the case last night, and we won. Sort of. Especially if you interpret “Denver Cowboys” to mean “Denver Broncos” (my bad Steve).
And, long overdue, I am going to try and switch to Flickr instead of the locally hosted Gallery software I have been using. I like Gallery, but I have been craving the “tags” feature, and it warrants abandoning Gallery until further notice. I also am planning to only upload a small selection of pics, instead of every single one I deem not completely worth deleting. More to follow as I integrate it into my site!
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Life is slowly finding a ‘normal’ pattern again. There are still a lot of pieces that need to be picked up concerning this transition out to independence and all the craziness that accompanies a move, but there is hope.
My sister-in-laws arrived Friday night, driving out here from Maine. Crystal will be living with us for the summer, and Amy came out just for the good times. As a bonus, however, we all drove out to Edgerton, KS for the Youth in Mission training camp in order to surprise her boyfriend. Amy then left yesterday afternoon, flying back to Maine. We did spend some time out at Nebraska Furniture Mart and lunch at Famous Dave’s, which is always really good. Also a bonus: We arrived at Dave’s and there was no line! Usually we have to wait an hour so that was awesome. The three girls got ribs and I got a brisket sandwich, so that was a little embarrasing.
Having my class concluded, I shall now resume my rightful place as drummer for the second service at Southwood. And I couldn’t be any happier about that. Although, I did get to play bass yesterday, which is always a lot of fun.
On the horizon: I am going to continue to update this site and my photo gallery software, in order to transition to a more photo-blog type of display. That will encourage me to take more pics and also to upload them. I still have pics from ENC’s graduation to upload!
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