Bruce Lee's Head Stone 

The space needle from the water tower 

An old water tower on capitol hill 

The group on 17th 

Hangin' Out

So basically the past 4 days I have just been hanging out with people and having a social life. It is so nice to get away from homework and stress. Last week was pretty bad for me; I had some much to do yet so little time. Anyway, I am past that and now I can move on.

On Thursday night I went out and sat in the median of 17th to watch drunken people. That was very intriguing. We actually got some drunken frat guys to come out and join us. They sat on the other side of the street facing us for about 15 minutes and then they got bored and left. After that, our drunken watching event turned into a water balloon avoiding adventure. Some of the guys from UCU....they shall remain nameless....decided to try and launch water balloons at us from the alley. It was pretty funny. I eventually went over there and stole their launcher when they were inside filling up water balloons. I figured that if they filled up some more balloons they would have to use them so they would soon be after us again, but this time without a launcher. I was right, they soon came army crawling toward us in the dirt, but we spotted them and quickly fled the scene. After about 5 minutes we returned to our seats on 17th ave, and continued to watch out backs. They came again and got Katherine and Emily with their water balloons. I will post some pictures of the event.

On Saturday I went to Volunteer Park with Mark, Heather, Joel, and Andrew. We saw some cool plants in the observatory, and got a great view of Seattle from the top of an old water tower. More pictures for that. Then we found a geocache in the park, and then went and visited Bruce Lee's grave in the nearby cemetery. I will post a ton of pictures now.

Showers (no not the ones caused by clouds)

I just realized that I took three showers today. There is a good reason for each one of them. The first was my morning shower, just before church. Side note: I went to my home church Westminster Chapel this morning. It was awesome to see all of my old church friends! For College group this morning we joined up with the 60+ class and got into groups. It was really weird, but good at the same time. It is unbelievable how much wisdom older people have about life in general and God. So it was fun to talk with them because it isn't a usual thing you do in church, and I learned sooooo much from them.

After church I went out with some friends to lunch and did a little bit of geocaching. Then I went home before it got dark to hide my cache that I have wanted to hide for weeks. I will post the link to my Cache once it gets approved. So while hiding my cache I had to dig a hole and so I got really muddy from head to toe. Not to mention it was pouring. This is where my second shower comes in. Then I went back to UCU at about 8:30.

At 9:30 a group of us got together and decided to go to Alki Beach and have a fire, and throw a Frisbee around. We all got in the Pettis van and had a blast being all scrunched together. Upon arriving Alki beach, we lit a fire and roasted marshmallows. We made "Sand Angles"-- (kind of like snow angles but with sand). Then we had a sand fight and got sand everywhere. Right before we were about to leave, Jacob, Heather, Linnell, Robb, and I all ran into the water. The guys went in our boxers, and I guess that might explain why Katherine and Emily thought I was naked when I went in. LOL. I have had my fair share of laughs at that. I was wearing yellow boxers and I guess in the dark that could look skin colory. lol, I am still laughing at that. And this is where my third shower of the day comes in....sand and salt just can't be good to sleep with...

Busy Quarter

So yeah, I haven't posted recently because I have such a busy quarter. I am taking Math 125, Phys 121, and English 131. Not all that hard, but just a lot of work. So last weekend I was able to go to Ocean Shores with my neighbors. That was awesome, I did some geocaching there, and even found a new cache that was posted while I was down there. I was one of the first people to find it. I would have been the first, but some guy came running up behind us because he saw us heading toward the cache. He caught up to us and found it first with us. (I don't think he really has a life.)

This weekend I am at home because I needed to grab a few things. I ended up going geocaching today in the rain. I found three on a mountain near my house. It was a 5 mile hike up and then down a very steep mountain, but very fun. I love hiking. I found my 40th find. Now I sound like a nerd. One more thing about this nerdy sport before I go...Tomorrow I am hiding my first cache for others to find....COOL!

Tomorrow I am going to go to the church where I grew up. I am excited to see my friends. Then I have two papers to write, a large math assignment to complete, and lots of physics to complete. That is partially why I am writing this now because I know that if I write two papers, I won't want to write anything else after that....

Saturday

Today was pretty relaxing. It was work day at UCU, which means that it was time for all of us to do our part in keeping the houses clean. My duty....Clean the grills next door. Not so bad, just a lot of scrubbing. Anyway when we were all done we burned the Christmas trees in the alley and then ate pizza.

From about noon on, I studied until about 5 and then I went next door because I was tried of studying and just plan bored. Heather and Becky were making an apple pie so I watched them and hung out over there. Later that night we ate the apple pie up in their room while watching "The Magic Christian". Robb and Joel were also watching the movie with us. Now I am off to bed, sorry about the boring post, but I just wanted to let you know that I am still alive.

Snow????

This idea of snow intrigues me very much. I mean snow?? In Seattle!!!! Yeah, if it doesn't happen I will be disappointed. But we will see. I like snow. I hope it actually comes. So in anticipation today I had my mom bring me some snow clothes to UCU. She was already going to be in the area so I just asked her if she could bring it to me. Anyway, this is a short post about snow. YEA, random

Things I will always remember from 2004

Well, a lot has happened this year, and I don't quite know how I am going to do this post yet. I think I am going to just start listing things and then if one thing needs explaining I will explain it a little.

• Taking a 3 hour lie detector test (probably the most excruciating thing I will ever have to do)
• Convincing my math teacher to have a party on a test day because we wanted to celebrate her birthday 4 months early
• Quitting my 9 year old flower business
• Selling a cat hairball on eBay
• Getting a job with the Police department for no apparent reason
• Catching people doing odd things in parks
• Catching people having sex in parks and skinny dipping in parks
• Getting into the University of Washington
• Graduating from high school
• Finishing my first quarter of College
• Meeting tons of new people as I made the transition from high school into college and saying goodbye to a few also
• Becoming an Uncle
• Taking care of a very cute baby Connor
• George Bush winning re-election
• The Washington state gubernatorial race between Rossi and Gregorie
• The deadly Tsunami in southeast Asia
• My senior year of High school
• Geocacheing

I can't think of any thing else right now so I guees the rest of 2004 won't be remembered because I have already frogotten it. Anyway, I will add more memories to this post if I can remember to.

Today...a Genealogy of Christ

Today has been a long day. I stayed up till 3:30 this morning and then went to sleep until 9 AM. Which is only like 5.5 hours of sleep? I don't know why I did it but I just realized that I am about to do it again because I have to be up at 6 AM tomorrow. Which is only like 6 hours away from now.

So today I went to church and saw all of my friends which was awesome. But there was another awesome thing that I learned. I always knew of the genealogy of Christ, but I never knew that there was more than one account of it. I have read the whole Bible before, but I guess I never realized there were two genealogies of Christ in the bible. Matthew and Luke both give an account of this, but there is something strikingly different about each of the genealogies. Each one traces Jesus back to different people. They are the same people for awhile but then it breaks off at a point and the people because different. Also, the genealogies are inverse of each other. One starts with Abraham and goes to Jesus and the other starts with Jesus and goes to Adam. I find all of this very interesting stuff. The reason that the people are different is because one begins to follow the law side of the family (like step-brother) and the other follows the blood line.

I have been thinking about why this may have been and I have come to a tentative conclusion. As we know, Matthew was writing to the Jews and Luke was primarily writing to the Gentiles. (This can be debated, but lets just take it as fact for now). Anyway...Matthew follows the blood line of Jesus and Luke follows the blood line for awhile and then breaks of into the law side. The Jewish people would want to know about the blood line of Jesus because they are concerned with that kind of thing. So I think that Luke begins to trace the law side of Jesus for two reasons. One is that he wants to show the Gentiles that Jesus comes from people like you and me. He was tempted by the same temptations that we all have. (I think I am on to something here but I can't quite put in into words). And the second reason is because he wants to show that the prophecy of Jesus to be proven true. That is a whole different topic that I could go on forever about. I won't get into it now.

Anyway, those are just some of my thoughts. I don't know if any of those things that I said are entirely correct, but I am willing to be corrected if any of you know any better than I do.

Happy New Year

2005 is here! Can you believe it. It seems like 2004 just began. A lot has happened in this short year. I graduated from high school an made the transition into college. I can't believe it. Anyway, I would kind of like to list a few memories here, but I am too tired to do so now. I have some good stories about my job this summer, and many other stories that I will tell throughout this week.