I realize that school just got over approx. 36 hours ago, and I am LOVING that, but I am SUPER excited because I just found out that I'm going to be able to get into the Russian 101 class at UO without being an enrolled student for fall!!! I really didn't want to get behind having to wait until winter term, and now I won't be! Russian language here I come!
(btw... Ypa! means Hooray! )
Snack Time: The Adventures of Sean and Steph
16 August 2008
15 August 2008
Catching Up!
Now that school is over (yay!!) and I don't have to get up terribly early for work tomorrow, I finally got a chance to go through and edit our honeymoon pictures! Be warned, there's a lot!
We flew to New Orleans, and left from there on a cruise to Progresso and Cozumel Mexico.
The view of the Mississippi as we leave New Orleans...
The Mississippi Delta, with the Gulf in the distance
Sunset on the river
Taking our traditional self portrait while lounging on the deck!
Towel Dog... or Pig?
Towel Ninja
Towel Frog
Towel Elephant
Towel Turtle, my favorite!!
The Main Pyramid
Mayan Ball court. The acoustics here are incredible, apparently you can stand in that temple at the end, and talk to someone in one at the other end of the court (which is at least the size of a football field) and you can hear each other perfectly at normal voice. Crazy.
The Ball Hoop
Serpent
More serpent.... or a jaguar... :)
The acoustics here were crazy too. You can stand in front of the pyramid, and clap your hands, and the noise echoes across the whole field and makes the exact call of a macaw. It's just bizarre. And on this particular staircase, at Spring Equinox, the sun hits at a specific angle and the rocks are covered in shadow in the shape of a serpent curling down the stairs. Since we weren't there for that, they showed us pictures, and it was amazing!
Huge spider....
This is our cruise ship docked in Cozumel, we went snorkeling and sea kayaking here, so all of those pics are on our waterproof camera. When they're developed, I'll get them on here!
Our hotel. We spent a few thunder and lightning storms in this pool, that was pretty awesome!
St Charles streetcar, which we rode EVERYWHERE!
The bar where we started the tour. It's from the 17th century and they have no electricity inside at all, with the exception of the cash registers. You may be asking yourself "what's that light that looks like a TV? " We have no idea, as we sat in there for quite a while, and both promise there are no artificial lights of any kind in there.
One of the homes in the French Quarter we stopped at
The back of St Louis Cathedral. There's a giant statue of Christ in the courtyard/church cemetary that makes this shadow
This is the front of the cathedral at night
And in the day time....
And finally, before getting soaked in a GIANT rainstorm and then heading to the airport, we spent our last morning there at The National World War II and DDay Museum. It was huge and we spent a ton of time going through all of the exhibits.
We flew to New Orleans, and left from there on a cruise to Progresso and Cozumel Mexico.
The view of the Mississippi as we leave New Orleans...
The Mississippi Delta, with the Gulf in the distance
Sunset on the river
Taking our traditional self portrait while lounging on the deck!My favorite part of being on the boat itself (besides the unlimited food!) was the towel animals that the room stewards left for you each night. I was SO excited to come back and see what we had waiting for us every evening !
Towel Dog... or Pig?
Towel Ninja
Towel Frog
Towel Elephant
Towel Turtle, my favorite!!For our first excursion in Progresso, we were lucky enough to take a two hour bus ride to the Mayan Ruins at Chechen Itza. They were AMAZING, and HUGE! The ruins cover almost 6 square miles of jungle, we were there for 2 hours and saw only about a quarter of it.
The Main Pyramid
Mayan Ball court. The acoustics here are incredible, apparently you can stand in that temple at the end, and talk to someone in one at the other end of the court (which is at least the size of a football field) and you can hear each other perfectly at normal voice. Crazy.
The Ball Hoop
Serpent
More serpent.... or a jaguar... :)
The acoustics here were crazy too. You can stand in front of the pyramid, and clap your hands, and the noise echoes across the whole field and makes the exact call of a macaw. It's just bizarre. And on this particular staircase, at Spring Equinox, the sun hits at a specific angle and the rocks are covered in shadow in the shape of a serpent curling down the stairs. Since we weren't there for that, they showed us pictures, and it was amazing!
Huge spider....
This is our cruise ship docked in Cozumel, we went snorkeling and sea kayaking here, so all of those pics are on our waterproof camera. When they're developed, I'll get them on here!After the cruise we went back to New Orleans and stayed for a few more days. Our trip was MUCH more fun the last few days than the first day we were there.
Our hotel. We spent a few thunder and lightning storms in this pool, that was pretty awesome!
St Charles streetcar, which we rode EVERYWHERE!Our last night in town we took a haunted tour of New Orleans and the French Quarter from "Bloody Mary," whom you may have seen on the Travel Channel. Her tour was amazing, she knew so much about the history of New Orleans and all the different cultures and backgrounds of the people, we learned SO much and it definitely gave us a better appreciation for everything the city has been through. These are a few of the places we went, sorry the pics are so dark:
The bar where we started the tour. It's from the 17th century and they have no electricity inside at all, with the exception of the cash registers. You may be asking yourself "what's that light that looks like a TV? " We have no idea, as we sat in there for quite a while, and both promise there are no artificial lights of any kind in there.
One of the homes in the French Quarter we stopped at
The back of St Louis Cathedral. There's a giant statue of Christ in the courtyard/church cemetary that makes this shadow
This is the front of the cathedral at night
And in the day time....
And finally, before getting soaked in a GIANT rainstorm and then heading to the airport, we spent our last morning there at The National World War II and DDay Museum. It was huge and we spent a ton of time going through all of the exhibits.Wow, it was so much fun getting to go through all of these pictures again!! Makes me want to go on another honeymoon right now!!
10 August 2008
Book list...
I stole this straight from someone’s blog. Who knows how reliable it is but I think it’s FUN! This is a list of the top 100 books ever published. Supposedly, the average person has only read 6 of these books.
I tag everyone. This is what you have to do:
1. Copy the list on your blog.
2. Read through the list and mark the books you've read.
3. Sean is green, I am blue, and anything we've both read is red
1. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5. Life of PI - Yann Martel
6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
8. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Jane Erye-Charlet Brontte
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman
14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
21. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
23. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
24. Animal Farm - George Orwell
25. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
30. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
32. Complete Works of Shakespeare
33. Ulysses - James Joyce
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Sean in process)
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
36. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
37. The Bible
38. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
41. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
46. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
47. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
48. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
49. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
50. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
51. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
52. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
53. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
54. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
55. Middlemarch - George Eliot
56. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
57. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
58. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
59. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
60. Emma - Jane Austen
61. Persuasion - Jane Austen
62. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
63. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
64. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
65. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
67. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
68. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
69. Atonement - Ian McEwan
70. Dune - Frank Herbert
71. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
73. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
74. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
75. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
77. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
78. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
79. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
80. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
81. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
82. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
83. Dracula - Bram Stoker
84. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
85. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
86. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
87. Germinal - Emile Zola
88. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
89. Possession - A.S. Byatt
90. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
92. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
93. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
94. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
95. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
96. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
97. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
98. Watership Down – Richard Adams
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
100. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Sean scores a 23
I score 30
As good of a list as this is though, I don't see how some of those books printed more copies than say Hemingway or like Erica said, the Harry Potter books... but now I have a good list to read from!
I tag everyone. This is what you have to do:
1. Copy the list on your blog.
2. Read through the list and mark the books you've read.
3. Sean is green, I am blue, and anything we've both read is red
1. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5. Life of PI - Yann Martel
6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
8. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Jane Erye-Charlet Brontte
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman
14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
21. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
23. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
24. Animal Farm - George Orwell
25. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
30. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
32. Complete Works of Shakespeare
33. Ulysses - James Joyce
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Sean in process)
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
36. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
37. The Bible
38. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
41. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
46. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
47. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
48. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
49. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
50. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
51. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
52. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
53. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
54. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
55. Middlemarch - George Eliot
56. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
57. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
58. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
59. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
60. Emma - Jane Austen
61. Persuasion - Jane Austen
62. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
63. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
64. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
65. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
67. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
68. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
69. Atonement - Ian McEwan
70. Dune - Frank Herbert
71. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
73. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
74. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
75. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
77. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
78. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
79. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
80. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
81. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
82. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
83. Dracula - Bram Stoker
84. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
85. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
86. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
87. Germinal - Emile Zola
88. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
89. Possession - A.S. Byatt
90. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
92. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
93. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
94. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
95. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
96. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
97. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
98. Watership Down – Richard Adams
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
100. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Sean scores a 23
I score 30
As good of a list as this is though, I don't see how some of those books printed more copies than say Hemingway or like Erica said, the Harry Potter books... but now I have a good list to read from!
04 August 2008
Wedding Pics!
After 4 months, I finally took the time to edit and post a TON of our wedding pics. If you want to see the majority of them, they're listed on our myspace page, www.myspace.com/snackfam, or you can see all of them at tinabolling.com, then Your Photos and our names. But here are a few of my favorites!
Our photographer made this one the cover of our wedding album, it makes me smile every time!
My most wonderful and excellent girls!! :)
Look at those handsome guys!
Me and Mama
DancinI could keep posting, but this would be crazy long and I have such a hard time picking my favorites!! Such a beautiful day!
02 August 2008
It's a real thing!
Look! I finally found the time to set this thing up! For those of you who I've been stalking, and really, it's all of you, I've been jealous of your blogs, but never thought I had the time to set one up. Then it occured to me "If you didn't check on everyone for half an hour, you could totally have your own!" Bingo-bango, here I am, an official blogger! :)
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