Last Week Off

It was sure nice to have another week off of school. It was a good week too. On Sunday night, Alison and I went up to Jacob Priest’s cabin on Bear Lake. It’s just over the border on the Idaho side. It’s not really a cabin, but a home. It’s right on the lake (if the water is ever all the way up to the bank) and it has 6 rooms upstairs and a master bedroom down. There is a big family room up and down as well as a kitchen and dining area down. We were only up there for Sunday night but it was still a lot of fun.

On Sunday night we played one game of Scene It and one game of Shout About TV (Better than Scene It). After that we watched The Truman Show. That really has got to be Jim Carrey’s best “serious” film. I don’t even know if he has any others. I really like the film.



The most fun part of the whole trip was Monday morning. Sean and I (with whom we rode up) went out on the four-wheelers. We went out onto the frozen beach and were just riding around. I didn’t expect to be out for that long, but it was a ton of fun and we were out there for almost 2 hours. Poor Alison got stuck reading the whole time we were gone. We would do donuts on the ice sheets and then we had a lot of fun going up and down a frozen creek bed. Don’t worry, we had out helmets on.

After we had our fun four-wheeling we helped clean before heading home. Today (Monday) was also the day of most of the big bowl games. We missed most of them, but we were able to see a bit of the Fiesta Bowl (Ohio State beat Notre Dame) and the Sugar Bowl (West Virginia beat Georgia). The next day was the Orange Bowl (Penn State beat Florida State) and then the best game of all, the National Championship Rose Bowl. In that game undefeated Texas met undefeated (for 3 years) USC. Texas won by overcoming a 12 point deficit in the last 5 minutes. It’s too bad the BCS is such an unfair crock.

This week I went with Alysia and Dad to see what was inside Mom and Dad’s safety deposit box. There was mainly a lot of silver coins and junk silver coins. It was cool to see. Alison and I will have to get one eventually – as my coin collection continues to grow.

The rest of the week was full of work and a bit of reading. Other than that – school starts soon…