Ducks

I have Tia to thank for letting me know about this event. I didn't know until this year but apparently BYU hosts a Ducky Derby every summer! It was a blast!

James and I really like ducks. We always go to the duck pond and feed them. One time James got a duck to eat out of his hand! We also like to take pictures of them and even chase them. Also, "duck" is just so fun to say. No wonder people invented Duck Duck Goose. Anyway, it took me about zero seconds to decide to go to this thing when I heard about it.

Tia and I went, and later James and Dave could simply not help joining in the quacking fun.

Dave is peeved in this picture because James decorated his duck for him before he got there.... He gave it eyelashes and lipstick and wrote "Dainty Duck." It's kind of a running joke between them.

James had Fire Duck. I just love the flames he drew on the sides.

So all the ducks raced in heats, mainly because the little stream they used was too narrow for all the ducks at once. I thought it was funny how they set up the starting line: just dumped in a bucket of ducks. A lot of the ducks started off upside down that way.

Luckily James' duck didn't. Fire Duck did amazingly well in our heat! He got 2nd place but was about a centimeter away from getting 1st.










Here's a video I took. I only started recording halfway into the race when I realized James was winning. Also, I am extraordinarily sorry but I have Vertical Video Syndrome.



So because of that James won a coupon for a free Jamba Juice! Not bad. It's only a medium though. Maybe if he'd won first place he could have gotten a large.

Victory pictures!

He also got to race his duck in the final round, but sadly he was almost dead last that time. It was definitely very fun!! My favorite part was when the little kids were shouting "Fire Duck is winning! Fire Duck is winning!" Haha. Well James is super great and so are ducks.

He's Back!

...And so is the blog. James got back and the end of May from a four-week-long field camp and that is the reason I haven't blogged until now, the end of June. Makes perfect sense.

Here is the handsome bloke!

On the day he came back I made pasties for dinner, his favorite food in all the world. Straight from the deserts of Utah, still a little sunburned. I'm talking about James here, not the pasty. 

He had a lot of fun and went all over the place. It was really hard work, both physically and academically. At the two-week mark I drove down to visit him and it was lots of fun! I expect we will be writing a lot more about those adventures. And also, in the meantime, I will get back to the other stuff that has happened in the past 2 months.

Loganites

On April 24th it was my friend Jennifer's birthday! We've been good friends for a long time and it's fun to catch up. I don't get to see her very often because she goes to USU and lives in Logan. But for her birthday she invited her family and a few friends to come up and visit her!

Jennifer, Lauren, Me.

The day started off with James and me driving one of Jennifer's friends, Travis, from Provo to West Jordan at 7am. Yikes. Then I dropped James off at my family's house, and met up with Jennifer's parents who would carpool us to Logan. It was quite a long drive. Especially because of a giant long box in the car that had to fit between all the seats and blocked our view of each other. But eventually we made it.

After we talked to Jennifer and saw the place where she works, her apartment, and some friends, the whole group went to a park in the canyon and cooked brunch.

It was delicious! Jennifer and Lauren are cutting up tomatoes for the breakfast burritos.








After that we drove up the canyon some more and went on a short little hike. We found a tree swing near a visitor cabin and a river. It was fun to be in the canyon, but gosh it is cold in Logan. Jennifer has grown skin of leather to be able to live up there in a T-shirt.

Then went back for a tour of USU. It was pretty fun! Especially with Jennifer. She would be a great tour guide. Then we found a little picnic spot on campus and sang to Jennifer and ate the cake and she opened presents.

After that we went to a park nearby and played games till it got dark. And swung on swings.

For dinner we went to a restaurant called Annie's, apparently known for their "sink" of ice cream which they actually bring to you in a dish that looks like a kitchen sink. If you eat it all then you win a bumper sticker that says, "I cleaned the sink at Annie's." But you can also win it as a group if you collectively eat it. Which is silly because I ate like one spoonful. And nobody wanted the bumper sticker except Jennifer and she already has one. :)

All in all it was a pretty fun day! It was fun to see Jennifer and Lauren again. They surely are the never-let-go-of type of friends. Hooray for friends!

More Midday Munching Marker Art

Brought to you by James.

Monday 4/13, Freedom Academy with 7th and 8th grade math.

This is a magical dragon symbol from a computer game James really likes, Skyrim.

Friday 4/17, American Leadership Academy observing a math class that I was going to take over for 4 weeks.

This lunch bag may look very strange and slightly disturbing, which is a normal reaction to the Saucy Daikon and Huggable Eggplant. It's kind of a long story and the internet is to blame.

Tuesday 4/21, ALA being a long term substitute with math classes.

Isn't this giraffe just so, so, so, so adorable!??

Wednesday 4/22, same school as above. This lion was a request by me after receiving such a cute giraffe. I should make a zoo collection.

Monday 4/27. Yet again we have the last but NOT least!! James and his mad artistic genius have created "American Slothic," which was inspired from an internet guy who paints people as sloths.

We've Gone Bananas

Playing Bananagrams and eating banana bread!

We love each other a bunch.