Hi Hi!!  So I’ve been away for quite a while doing some really cool things.  First is I went home for my niece’s birthday party!  She was turning the big 6.  Her party was at Knoebles in Elysburg, Pa.  Now one thing that most people at Temple can relate to is Knoebels.  People will ask me where I am from and I tell them and get a blank stare in response.  So then I saw by Knoebels and then I get an, “Oh yeah!”

Leonidas on the way home!

Haley and I on the train.

Haley riding the Phoenix for the first time : )

Mike and Jake! How cute are they?!?

Then during finals my geogirls and I decided to make some iron on t-shirts.  Here they are finished!  Amanda and I also made physics ones for our final.  It has our professors face on the front and on the back it has the Mexican wave with some Loris’s doing the wave.  So here’s the story behind that:

One day Tsankov (our professor) writes 1986 on the board and Mexican wave and goes into this story about 1986 being the year he came to America and was watching a football game (he later clarified soccer) and the people in the stands started doing the wave and he was going on about kinetic and potential energy.  Long story short, I almost died laughing.  If you’re taking physics at Temple, go with Tsankov.

So we also like this video:

But here’s the ladies with our shirts!  We actually made them on study days so it was a nice break from studying  : )

Emily, me, Amanda & Sarah. We really like paleo things : )

Matt's design!

And then we went to the zoo!!

Emily and I... this pretty much describes our relationship.

Look at how he's sleeping!!

And then Kim, Morris, Sean (the housemate), and I met in Chinatown for some dinner.  Kim and I went shopping first and I got two gorgeous dressed for under $20 (thanks Ross!) and it was really nice.  I like how Philly is nice and compact so you can walk mostly everywhere.  On our walk to the restaurant from the shopping we saw a crab scuttle down the street.  I thought that was pretty fun  : )

Kim and I at the restaurant.

My artsy picture facing west from Center City.

And then there was a geology party in Manyunk.  It was a really nice time to chill after classes were over and barbeque.

Matt and Sam! (Matt's wearing his shirt he made)

Some of the group...with some of the group paying attention.

And then the geogirls!

Emily, Amanda, me, and Sarah.

Then I went home for a bit because I’ll be at field camp for most of the summer!  It’s a requirement for my major and Emily, Ashley (a girl from my structure class), and I are going together.  I’m so worked up!  But I’ll be there until mid July, then I take my nephew and niece for a week in Philly, and then it’s time for work 9-5!!  An exciting summer for sure!

I do have pictures from home but they’re all the way downstairs and I’m upstairs and it’s nice and cold up here…maybe I’ll update at the airport.

Xoxox & take care!