finally, a new post.

It takes a couple of weeks before enough interesting things happen that I can blog about them. At least in the summer, anyway. Last week Shannon and I started our summer classes, which included Geology 102 and Beginning Scuba Diving. We hiked up Rock Canyon for our first geology class, but then decided we didn't want to write reports all the time, we didn't want to suffer in the hot sun hiking at someone else's pace, we didn't want to ride in 12-passenger vans (bleh), we didn't want to be exhausted after 6 hours of hiking for our 4-hour scuba class right afterwards, and I would be able to go to work on Tuesdays. So we dropped it. I don't feel bad about it. Oh, plus we'd both already taken geology so it was sort of a waste of time...

We had our first actual swimming part of scuba last night, since the first night we just sat in the classroom and they talked at us and we got out early (fortunately). Last night our class actually went over, til about 10:30 pm. But it was a lot of fun. We learned mask clears and regulator retrievals, and I felt cool wearing the whole scuba getup. My tank was really heavy and I almost fell over backwards. That's fun. Oh, and I float like crazy. Yay. I think I'm going to enjoy this class.

Last Thursday morning, we (Eric and I and Shannon and Zach and Kelly - Zach and Kelly in their own car...) left to drive to the family reunion in Oregon. It ended up taking us about 12 hours to get there, even though it's only about a 10-hour drive. We stopped in Boise (read: meandered around lost for an hour looking for the elusive Albertson's) so Shannon could see Kaitlin at work and we stopped just enough times for gas and food that it tacked on about another hour. The reunion was good though. We were a little sad the tram was closed, so we sort of brought our bikes for nothing (tried to make up for it by riding around the campground - not quite the same as riding down a mountain), but we still rode horses on Friday morning and rented a paddleboat for a while on Saturday evening. Fun. I got sunburned during the softball game standing out in left field, and for once I didn't do anything for the talent show. That's ok. We left on Sunday morning after breakfast but before the testimony meeting, hoping we'd get back at a reasonable time. We still got back at about 12:30 because there was all kinds of construction traffic in Ogden. Boo. It tooks us an hour to go maybe 3 miles. Maybe. Lame.

I'm sick for some reason. Also lame.

Our pictures from the reunion: http://picasaweb.google.com/adrien.mooney/FamilyReunion