Camp Maple Dell

Eventually one of these days, I want to post a nice long post about Camp Maple Dell, what I do there, and why I work there . . . .

Just a Test

Facebook makes it much easier to upload many photos at once, so I think I'll continue my adventure on Facebook if their "share this album with a public link" button actually works. Here's a tribute to me, lemme know if you can see the pictures!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2005613&l=ca998&id=1053347938

Nostalgia

*sigh, Well the past few days, I was able to go and visit my beloved Camp Maple Dell and spend some time with the staff (and scouts) there this week. Going back for even 2 days made me totally see what I missed out on, and now I'm a bit depressed that I couldn't/didn't go back this summer. It's such an amazing experience! Now, I'm a Knot Demi-God, and I'm glad I got to see my friends, but I came now and now I'm really nostalgic. I don't really know how I'm feeling. Happy? Sad? Grateful? Wishful? Tired? Excited? I have no clue. At least I'll get to go up for the last week of camp, as a real staffer. :) That is still two weeks away though, and anything can change in that time. :P Anyways, I just had to get this down on something, I'm really okay, I just don't know how I am feeling.

I had to . . .

*laughing . . . . well, to cure my boredom today, I decided to create a Facebook profile for myself (finally!!) so yeah, you can find me now on facebook too, if you'd like. More pics to come soon too! Don't worry Jenna :)

Germany (Austria) Part 2

After spending a few days in Munich, by ourselves, we had the chance to ride the train for a few hours over to Austria. It was an interesting train ride, involving passport mix-ups and much frightenedness. . . .

We made it to Austria fine, here are the pics:

These are a few (of many) of me being seriously and honestly lost in the Austria train station. I was also a bit nervous too. . . .

Europe gas prices! Now before you start whining about how high our prices are, remember that they have liters instead of gallons, and the the Euro is about 1.7 times the US Dollar. Can't do the math? Gas is about $8/gallon over there. . . .

The placard in front of Mozart's birth house. It was a bit unbelievable that he was born there, since it had just been freshly painted and remodeled.
Chane . . . defiling someone's grave. . . we aren't sure who. . .

Castle scenery

No comment . . .

A funny ad we found. Well, I found. And well, I thought was funny . . . Be glad I didn't photo some (many) of the others that we came across on our journey.

And with that concludes our day-trip to Austria, and we return home to Germany . . . Until next post! Thanks for reading!

Germany, Part I

I'm not sure how many parts are gonna be in this series. . . I guess just enough for me to get lotsa pictures in, so we'll start with part 1, the trip over, and Munich , Germany. Prepare for photos.

Our flight left at 7:00 in the morning, which means you get to the airport at 5 in the morning, which means we got up at 4 in the morning. :) Me and Chane didn't really sleep . . . . Notice the glazed eyes on McKay.

Chane's glazed, but excited eyes . . .

After the flight to Atlanta, we had a few hours layover, and found this cool art exhibit that had animals made out of random "junk objects." Here is McKay petting the horse . . . (or so it seems...)

Our "perfect" aisle seat for the journey over the Atlantic. . . and into tomorrow...

The colors of the sunset were AMAZING as we flew over the ocean . . . my camera doesn't do it justice (plus the guy at that seat thought I was photoing him . . . *bites tongue)

We stayed in Munich for 4 days, and were all by ourselves. Over the course of the whole trip, we all got pretty good at just "bumming around," which is actually more fun than it looks.


Notice how clean the underground is . . . .


Funny story here: McKay's first encounter with "bubbleless" German folk. He was sitting alone when the college-age guys decided to join him.

Bumming around, and being tired all at the same time.


They have cool playgrounds. . . this thing was HUGE!!

Our first "Real German Meal" which ended up being kindof confusing and a bit of culture shock. Ask my why sometime. :)

The view from an old church we went up in the tower.

Our teenie hostel room (not even hotel) :) I dunno how many times I had to slap Chane to keep him awake . . . sorry 'bout that Chane.

View of the Olympic Park

For all those girls (and boys) who are obsessed with the Stephanie Meyer series Twilight, yes, they do have them in Germany. The book art is a bet better there too I think . . .

Chaner on his bike, during Lenny's FREE Bike tour!
Our tour guide, who was quite crude, but still very good. He was an American: spoke perfect English.

This China tower is supposedly, like, the most famous beer garden in the world. Don't worry, we had Currywurst and French fries, no beer. :)

McKay fell asleep . . . need I say more . . . ?

The river goes fast enough that they have guys come and surf on it!!

We came across a really cool (HUGE) museum called the Deutches Museum, and its the biggest I've ever been in. Our tour guide said that if you were to spend one minute at every single exhibit in this museum, it would take you 33 days to see everything . . . . I wish we'd had more than 4 hours in there. . . .

A water attraction/eye candy at the museum.

This is a cross section of the main support cable that holds up the Golden Gate Bridge. The diameter was THIS BIG!!! *holds out his hands as far as they can go. I'm not even joking, it was as wide as my arm span.


This instrument was a prototype "Clarinet-Sax." Its a clarinet body, with sax keys and pads to fit . . . kinda weird. I wonder what it sounds like.

I was drooling ALL OVER this one. I'm not 100% sure, but rather 80% sure that these saxophone are some of (if not) the very first makes and prototypes of saxophones ever. When I went to look at the stamp (brand) they all said Adolphe Sax (who was the inventor of the saxophone. . . . ) So I was basically freaking out.

The museum was so big, they had full size ships, sailboats, and even sailplanes!

More bumming around, this time on some funky out, outside a pretty "official looking" government building. :S

And thus ends our journey in Munich. ( I think) Next post will be our day trip to Austria! Hopefully I can get these done a lot sooner so that peeps can see what I actually did . . . .

Anyways, thanks for reading, and keep(ing) checking back . . . blah blah blah
I'll stop typing now and hit Publish Post. . .