May 7, 2008

Our new dining set!  We just moved it in 20 minutes ago and it already has stuff on it.   What you don't see are the many suitcases we have laying around as we're packing.  Tomorrow is the long haul back to the US, so this month's posts will be fairly limited.  

May 9, 2008

We're in Denver, jet-lagging, trying to make coherent sentences and doing what Americans do best: shop.  I'm sure all of the clerks at the mall who waited on us were wondering why these two people were talking like a movie that's in slow-motion:

Clerk: Hi, can I help you find anything?

Me: Nnnnnnoooooooo.  Juuuuuussssst llllllooooookiiiiiiiinnnnnng.

Clerk:  Uh, okay.  Just let me know if you need anything.

Me: Mmmmmmhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm (because it's too much effort to make vowel sounds).

The highlight of the trip here was on the flight yesterday, wait, today? No, well, I think yesterday.  We were on a plane somewhere at somepoint in time recently, and the Chinese pilot said with a heavy accent, "We will have four hours and fifty-five minutes of fright time today."  Eric and I looked at each other wide-eyed.  Panic ensued and it looked like a scene from the "Airplane" movie.  Okay, not really.  Still, that has got to be the best line from a pilot (whether he meant fright or flight, we will never know) in all of the flights we have had.

We took a drive in the mountains and then stopped by the Edgar Mine, the CSM student mine.  We took a few pictures of the antique mining equipment they had displayed, and tried to make it into some sort of industrial art.... put more on the Photos2 page.