Meteors and Jump Rope

As you may know the Leonid Meteor shower was in full swing last night. Some friends and I decided to drive out to the dunes and see what we could find. My car was packed meaning there was 6 people in my little 5 seater. In the freezing 20 degrees we all huddled up and peered into the abyss. After seeing a few here and a few there. We decided to call it a night. Driving back towards town we were about to drop some people off, we saw an intense burning light. I looked over just in time to see a bolide meteor, which means bright flashing meteor. Apparently, It is pretty rare but not too terribly uncommon. According to some news reports it lasted around 13 seconds and was seen from Southern Idaho across Utah. It was a magnificent sight. I only wish we were still out in the boonies where the meteor would have been optimal to see, instead of in town.

Here is a picture of a bolide meteor although this is not the one that I saw.

On Saturday Tim and Kaitlyn's jump rope team put on their annual Extreme show. My first time seeing this show was last year. And it was just incredible! My friends all thought it was weird that I went to got WATCH jump roping. This is is how I explain it. It's like jump roping and gymnastics fused together. A friend of mine who was the only one willing to go with me, Loved it. We both felt the urge to jump rope after watching this show. Here are some highlights!

It's pretty crazy what these kids can do. Good job Tim and Kait. It was a lot of fun. And so cool to watch!

Brownie, Anyone?

For Environmental Sanitation class my teacher signed us all up for a presentation. No big deal right? Well, it wasn't necessarily a requirement but it is common knowledge that if you bring in treats then 1. Everyone loves you, and forgets if you didn't do such a good job because you brought some yummies 2. everyone else before my partner and I brought in a treat and 3. This particular teacher really really like treats. I think this is why we are required to do presentations because he gets treats.

My presentation was on Mold. Now, what kind of treat do you bring in for this? Of course there is the option of reaching in all the way to the back of the refrigerator and finding the leftovers that you have completely forgotten about that now have more hair then Donald Trump. But I didn't want to gross everyone out. So, I started asking around. About 2 days before the presentation and still nothing. The only thing I thought would be cool enough was to make a "mold" of my teachers face fill it with chocolate and hand that out. I thought that was really funny and clever, but that far exceeds my artistic abilities.

So this is what I decided on. Well, with a little help from my boss Kristine. I was going to make Moldy Brownies. Just sprinkle a little powdered sugar on them and bam!...moldy brownies. Now, to go way above and beyond. I tried to dye some of the powdered sugar a lovely blue gray mold color. Only to find out that powdered sugar and food dye do not mix at all. Really, the food coloring will just sit on top. So I mixed the food coloring in with water and then added it to the powdered sugar. What did I get then?.....Paste. So I then added as much powdered sugar as my concoction could take and let it sit over night. I broke it apart the next day. I was hoping it would still have powdered sugar texture, but it didn't.

Here's how they turned out.


Surprisingly, they were almost all eaten. I really wasn't expecting people would want to eat these, but they wolfed them down.