Iron Mountain photos

Hi gang,

I think I send everyone a link to the pictures of our wonderful adventure in Iron Mountain. However, if I miss anyone, here is the link to take a look at the photos again....

Iron Mountain trip photos

See you tomorrow evening at Robyn and Mark's house warming party....

s

Last night in Iron Mountain

Hannah's official offer from University of Auckland

Tonight is the last night in Iron Mountain. We will be leaving tomorrow for Florida at about 4am in the morning. We are happy, excited and yet there is a tint of sadness. Happy and excited that we will be back in Florida, and moving another step forward in going to New Zealand.

The last few days in Iron Mountain was fabulous. We climbed up the ski jump. International skiers come here every year to compete against each other. We also went on a 15-mile hiking and camping trip with Hannah's siblings, Grace and Dominic. It was really awesome.

I have uploaded the whole trip photos. Check it out on the picasa album (it should be updated in the previous post).

Oh yes, and Hannah finally received her written confirmation from University of Auckland. We were both really happy and relieved... now we will start the process of applying for the student visa. wish us good luck...
















Getting ready for 15-mile hike and camp

10 things you DIDN'T know about orgasm

"Cheese crumbs spread in a cage of a pair of copulating mice will distract the female, BUT not the male" Alfred Kinsey, biologist

"I toss myself regularly so that fresh ones can always be made" Roy Evans, sexologist

Enjoy :)

Glad I'm Not Insane -- Thanks Amy!

Hi all! Robust and hearty greetings from Columbus, Georgia, where I am stationed for the summer. 

Just  wanted to share with you all quick highlights of the drive back, 'cause I took pictures. It was so exciting. Not kidding. Definitely not joking. Melbourne to Columbus = 8 hours.

I hear you've had some rain in Melbourne lately, beginning with the Wall of Water on Monday. That's what it looked like going north on I-95 that day... some extensive road work and some rain -- but not too bad! 

It got worse. As in... worse. Couldn't see the car two car-lengths in front of you worse. Global warming melting all the glaciers and raining the equivalent onto Florida worse.

Ok, it wasn't THAT bad. Drove 45 MPH for an hour, then it cleared up a bit. But it was the heaviest rain I've ever driven through, on a two lane highway with extensive road work!

Some other things of note on the drive: saw a family of bunnies by the side of the road, waiting for their friend who had gotten run over to get up. 

That was sad. 

This is a little less sad: somebody had an orange accident! These fruits were strewn across both sides of the road, with workers running around looking at the mess. Apparently it takes three cop cars and a couple of white kidnapping vans (all-white, no windows) to keep cars from smushing Floridian jewels on the highway. 

I wonder if they got them all up... sort of reminds me of the time freshman year when we stopped dead on 528 back home for a half hour. The reason? A herd of cows.

Anyway, so the drive was semi exciting. More to come in the Life of Nori. I'm actually pretty proud of myself and the car for making it the whole way... :). 

Hope you all are well and doing beautiful things in beautiful places. I miss Melbourne already!

Nori

PS. It's been a ridiculously long time since I've blogged - ages - and I've been rereading some stuff. Ahhhh, the memories.... like freshman year on the infamous 5th Floor of Roberts Hall.

PPS. Speaking of beautiful places, I'm putting up pictures on Facebook of my travels earlier this year, and you should go check 'em out.  

Photos from Iron mountain

Hey gang,

Don't really take enough photos, but here are some from the iron mountain trip.... will update daily. Take a look when you have time.... :)

s

Little adventure in Huge mine

Hannah at the top of the collapsed mine...


Hi gang,

It's hard to put how beautiful Iron Mountain is in words. We were walking around everywhere yesterday and today. We were hiking in Lake Fumee yesterday, and today we decided to go explore this collapsed mine in Millie Hill. It's hard to describe how huge the place is, and the pictures are only able to show part of it...

So the adventure begins after we climbed about 250 feet down into the collapsed mine. Then we had to climb over huge boulders for a 1/4 mile, which took us a few hours to get to the other side of the huge pit. There are still some ice at the bottom as the temperature is still quite cold way down there. After that, we said "we are done with the exploring, let's head out!" and we decided to take another route out, which involves doing a bit of rock-climbing up a wall.... half way up, we decided that it is probably not a great idea, as we do not have a support rope, and if we were to fall, it would not be a pretty sight!... well, I got off the wall, and Hannah slipped while she was climbing down!... Our hearts were beating faster than a speeding train!... Holy cow!... Eventually, she managed to get down safely, and everything ended well.

Until the next adventure!














Me at the bottom of the collapsed mine...















Hannah at one of the ice/ snow at the base of the collapsed mine. Look at how small she is with reference to the ice/ snow!

Rockets launching in Sheboygan

The mountaineer rockets with their "Helios" and the highly-energized teacher!



Hey gang,

Hannah and I are in Iron Mountain, Michigan (Hannah's hometown) now visiting her parents and siblings. The last couple of times that I was here were in the Winter and all I have memories of Iron Mountain was it is cold and snow everywhere.... it was beautiful, but I am a bit tired of the snow, and taking 20 minutes to dress up every time we go out. Anyway, it is spring now, and the weather is PERFECT!.. Birds are flying and chipping everywhere, the ground and trees are bright green, and flowers blooming everywhere....

Yesterday, we went to see Grace (Hannah's younger sister) participate in the High School Rocket competition in Sheboygan (Hannah was trying to make me pronounce this properly)... Their team came in FIRST PLACE!.. Congrats to them!... The competition is interesting - seeing middle school and high school rockets launching into the air, meeting the highly-energized teacher of Grace, and a 2-hour prize giving ceremony! etc. The only disappointing part was they ended up not launching Grace's rocket because the wind was ripping all the rockets apart!...
















Hannah and her mom posing with the control panels from the old Apollo control central

First post

Hey Everyone,

I thought I'd break the ice and do the first post. Plus, the pic is a little reminder of what is to come at Robyn and Mark's housewarming party!

Welcome to Blogspot; it's pretty easy to navigate, and it'll be great for us to keep in contact when we're all on different continents. Everyone can post recent pictures, ideas, plans, memories, you name it. It also makes planning get-togethers a bit easier than 365 gmails back and forth!

See you all the 29th!

Amy