Still amazed.

If you read straight on from the last blog, this will probably make more sense. I had just finished talking about the people on the canoe trip and am moving onto the scenery.

The scenery was extremely beautiful. The whole French river area was an area that had been carved out by retreating glaciers. The rivers were big channels that retreating glaciers had carved. At one of the stops along the way, we were camping along the bay, and the shoreline for miles looked like someone with HUGE hand and had taken their fingers to the shoreline and just made pulled out channels of rocks. Each channel extended for a few hundred feet inland before the trees started covering them. Shannon, Jon, and I went and walked for a few clicks and all we did was go up, down, and circle around the channels that were low enough for rocks. My professor didn't get any pictures of that, but he did take about 400 pictures of other scenery. Some of the pictures are really neat. He is an amateur photographer that I think is really good and he got a lot of neat pictures with his high powered camera.

We got back to the college Friday and then had final presentations as soon as everyone got settled back in the classroom. Having the "final" Friday night meant people didn't have to return Saturday morning and could get a head start on the rest of the summer. At least the other students in my class got off to a fast start. I got off to a slower start because I ended up driving to GCC Saturday to drive Marianna to the airport. Of course there were a few stops along the way for storage, but we managed to fit everything in the car and get Marianna to the airport in time. I helped Marianna with the bags into the airport, and after a few dizzying trips on the elevator (we had trouble finding the right floor) Marianna was checked in and on her way home!

Sunday... I was lazy. No other way to put it. I didn't help Dad too much and I didn't spiffy up my room any. I didn't even play computer games... thinking back, I have no idea what I did. Monday was a bit more interesting. Since Mom was coming home, I made a nominal attempt at cleaning up my bedroom and tried to pick up around the house, but Margaret is a fantastic housekeeper when she is in charge. Everything was all right in the morning, so about 4:00 we went over to my Aunt and Uncle's house to have a Memorial Day get together. As we were leaving, Katie called my Aunt and we heard about the car accident. I won't speak on that since you already know the details. Needless to say, I and my whole family was swamped until Thursday when Katie and I left for Arizona to see my Grandma! That is also in an earlier blog so I won't say much more except the events that happened late in the week. I got to visit Cousin Shar and hang out in an old section of town. Katie got a lot of really neat items as graduation presents. I had no idea what I wanted so I went without. I also have to say that Aunt Pauline was great and drove us to San Diego for Nationals and waited around until all our baggage was handled. She took at least 7 hours out of a VERY busy day to make sure we were settled. Thanks Aunt Pauline!

I've been thinking today (not a lot of thinking, just a bit) about what I should start doing to prepare for the end of helping my family this summer. I'm going to take a general stab about what I will end up doing, so I thought I would try to write a nice computer program to show my future employer (I've done a lot of work on one over the spring semester) and just keep up my reading over the summer and try to keep it up when work starts. This summer I'm also planning to participate a lot in the NCFCA groups popping up around here and also work on the NFA topic.

There are still a lot of unaswered questions about what's going to happen... so what! I'll continue to mull over what is coming up, but each day has it's own troubles.