Dark Fours Rinsing

That's the second book in Timothy Zahn's trilogy.

I bet y'all thought that I'd forgotten about you concerning our fun trips. I realize that it's been a while since our vacation, but I might as well post the pictures that I was planning. The delay has been caused by our Village Missions conference and my presence here at Zachary and Brenda's house. Hopefully I'll be able to post some pictures of this fun soonish, but until then, without further ado, the unveiling of our Seaworld pictures.

I'm a big fan of the Orcas. They are much more majestic than their cousins: regulation orcs.

I was pretty sure, beforehand, that whaling was illegal in most states these days, but I certainly enjoyed my portion.

There's a likelihood that I was a bigger fan of the Belugas than of anything else. For whatever reason, the all-white whales (or the all-black Pilot Whales which I have no pictures of) just greatly entertain me. Perchance my monochromatic preferences reflect my worldview?

Here's a good pic of Emily and her Grandma looking at said whales.

The shadowing in this pictures is a little bit of a bummer, but it's a nice one of both Emily and the polar bear.

And here's a great one of Emily, her parents, and her favorite animals in Seaworld, the Commerson's Dolphins.

Ere to the Imp's Ire

I didn't really have a good title to my post, so I decided to massacre the title of one of my favorite Star Wars books.

As you may have noticed, it has been more than a month since my last post. I had some intentions of updating my blog shortly after I returned from school, but I have not gotten around to it until today. The last month of school did indeed go well. I gave all my reports and took all my tests. I got pretty good grades on the stuff that I did and now I am glad that I have to do no more of said assignments until the end of August.

This past month I have been reading and playing video games. Pretty good summer so far. I know, in your mind you are saying, "What, this bum hasn't yet gotten a job?" To that I say, "I'm too pretty to work!" Well, actually, as y'all might have noticed, the job market is not extremely good right now. There is very little work in Pahrump, and even were a position to open up, it's tough because I know that there are a number of guys and gals in the church who need jobs to support families. If anything opens up, I'll probably let you know, but until then, it's helping out in the new building at the church and reading books.

The other thing we did this past month has already been revealed to you through both Brenda and Pop's blog. I thought that I'd just give you all the pictures that I'd like you to see in one post, but there are quite a few of them. Therefore, here's the first half of the festivity pictures.

I know this technically doesn't present any of the festivities, but both this picture and the next shows the old and new orders of the Expanded Universe canon, respectively. I thought you might like to see them.

This is a pretty good picture of Emily (and of her parents, I suppose.)

To begin with, Emily and I were playing on Mom and Dad's bed after church. She was telling me to "sleep good" (which she does with some regularity. Maybe she doesn't like to hang out with me whilst I'm awake?) Though I'm not completely certain about the order, eventually Emily invited all of us to come "sleep good" at the same time.

I do realize that, to place Legoland pictures here would be to present our vacation out of chronological order, but, since there are fewer of these than there are ones from Seaworld, I'm going to do it anyway.

I own the movie that that poster is advertising through legos. The only thing not made of legos in this picture is the stroller. Legoland is pretty amazing.

I was going to go on this roller coaster. All day long I was saying how much I'd like to ride it, but someone had to stay with Emily and keep Mom company. Who was in a better position?

It would seem that Zachary would be a little quicker to help while his daughter is being eaten by a shark. Strange.

This last picture is mostly entertaining. There's one thing I would fix, but it would seem unwise to crop so much of the picture. There is a picture with all of us looking at the camera and smiling, but you didn't come to my blog for good pictures, did you? That's what Brenda and Dad are for.

By the way, I just figure I'd remind you, Uncle Randy, that folks still read your blog. We just don't really know what to say most of the time.