This is me and Joan and Basilla, two Pacific Walruses at the Brookfield Zoo. How cute! 

Yes, I am still alive. Life is just getting a little crazy lately. What's been going on? Last weekend Ryan and I went down to Garden City to stay with Phil and Sandy for the weekend. On Friday we went to a Roper concert. This is Reese Roper's (from Five Iron Frenzy) new band. It was a small crowd, but that meant I could watch and listen from up close without getting pushed and kicked and stuff. I enjoyed it. They played a
FIF song, which was a little crazy and weird, but that's ok. I guess they got on one of the Billboard charts last week for new artist or something. I don't really understand how that record industry stuff goes.

I got to see Josh for a short 2 hours or so on Tuesday. He was downstate with a group of high school kids from Upward Bound doing various college tours. He was at CMU so we met for lunch at Wendy's and then I went on part of the tour with them before I had to go to class. I did skip my religion class before that and of course we had a quiz. I guess it's a good thing I'm taking it credit/no credit then!

Today I am going up to Cedar Campus again in the U.P. for an InterVarsity alumni retreat. No, I'm not an alumnus yet, but Ryan and I are going to baby-sit. I think we have 9 kids to take care of. Yikes! We'll be able to test out these parenting skills I guess. Except we will never have anywhere close to 9 kids!

School is going well. I am enjoying my classes, which is nice for my last semester. I am kinda getting that senior slump, but since I tend to be an over-achiever, I am not actually slacking off at all. I am getting good grades in all of my classes. Even one I'm getting over 100%. Kinda crazy!

I really wanted to attach a photo to my blog, just for some eye candy, but I can't figure out how to do it. I scanned the picture but I couldn't figure out how to attach it. I guess I'll just ask my friend Liz, because she has a picture attached.

The Edge retreat was this weekend. It was a great time! Chris, who was one of the two non-Christians that came with us, accepted Jesus on Saturday night. God is so faithful how He answered our prayers about him and how He answered Chris' questions and concerns. Yeah God! Also, two good friends, Megan and Jeff, got engaged! This also happened on Saturday so it was an overwhelming day. To add to the excitement, we were at this place called Narnia, which a bunch of big rocks and stuff. Ryan and I were on top of one and I asked him how to get down. He said, "grab this tree and swing yourself down." As he did this, the tree broke, and he went crashing down 7 feet and landed on his back. His arm hit a rock, causing him to think it may be broken. His thumb went numb and his elbow got sooo swollen. He then went in shock so we had to sit for awhile. Once he seemed better we had to hike 1.5 miles back out of the woods, and take him to the emergency room in St. Ignace. Luckily it wasn't broken but he has to keep it wrapped up in a sling for a week. Poor boy. Now I can call him gimpy because with one arm you can't do much. I have to put deodorant on for him. :) Oh, and I got to take a sauna on Saturday and jump in a freezing lake twice. Finns are so smart! I love saunas!