3 weeks of fun weekends!

When I look back at a week, I always think we didn't do much besides school and work...  But when I stick together all the stuff we did in 3 weeks, it's like all we do is play!  Here is an example:

In the last 3 weeks we.....

1. Went to color me mine and painted a soap dispenser (that matches our bathroom)
3. Celebrated Pi day with pie
2. Played in a toy store
3. Ate at Tucanos
4. Saw Insurgent
5. Played at Nickel City
6. Watched a season of Lost
7. Tried a new ice cream place
8. Made dinner with friends
9. Went to a birthday party

Pretty fun, right??  We have to fill up our free time with stuff like this to get us through the final stretch of the semester.


Some other stuff:

I presented at the BYU spring research conference and talked about my research at the paleontology museum...I won!  $100!  It paid for our Tucanos trip and for a bunch of yarn.  $100 well spent.

p.s. I have been using a lot of that yarn to make these clever coasters:

My friends tell be they're hilarious!  ...And they would be 100% correct.  (:

Javier was in a competition for best sales pitch/door approach for the first year reps at Alterra.  He did SO well! Higher ups came up to him individually and told him how well he did. He was just 0.1 points away from making it to the final 6!  Bummer, because had he been in the other room, he would have made it!  Lame.  But he is at LEAST #7 best 1st year sales rep thus far.  Go Javier!

Speaking of Alterra, and this is going to kill all the hype, but they changed our location... Looks like they overbooked Vegas, so they are sending us to........Philadelphia!  And that's the final word.  We are excited.  Javier will go out on the 28th or so, and I will be stuck in Utah mapping mountains for a month and a half before I head up... But a fun, busy summer is ahead!

Also, I took a field trip with my Sedimentology and Stratigraphy class.  We drove through Price, down the Green River, and back to Provo, stopping at a bunch of outcrops to study them.  Fun, but I'm glad to be home.

In other news: DID HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER REALLY END LIKE THAT?? and other normal stuff.

As you may have heard, Javier and I are hard core How I Met Your Mother fans.  We started watching everything starting with season 1, episode 1 on Netflix.  We freaking loved that show!  I mean, Lily and Marshalls baby?  Come on.  That adorable little thing kept me coming back!  Also Ted's hilarious failure of his search for Mrs. Mosby.  And Barney's terrible lack of conscience. And Robin?...  We didn't like her, actually.  Don't get Javier going about THAT ridiculous and totally worthless character.  If you did, he would list something like (and certainly not limited to):

• She can't let a good thing happen
• She is the worst decision maker in the world
• She is obsessed about her job to the point of being stupid selfish
• She's not attractive (This one is mostly Javier.  I would steal her hair and wardrobe any day.)
• She's afraid of babies?  Come on Robin.  Really?
• She's almost always pissed off about something

So.  This ending I was talking about.  (HIMYM veterans, you know how we feel right now.  Please take a moment to brace yourself.):

Season 8 (yes it starts here): main point of this season was Barney falling in love with Robin, and trying to change for her.  It ended in him proposing to her in the most ADORABLE way!  (Which Robin freaked out and told him he was terrible for proposing the way he did, instead of just saying yes.  Which she did, after yelling.)
Season 9: The entire season was at Robin and Barney's wedding location. (Where Barney was totally cool and super excited to marry Robin, while Robin was having cold feet over the most stupid, minor things.)
The third to the last episode, we all met (and loved) the "Mother".  She was a perfect match for Ted!  She loved all the things he did, he was just in LOVE with her, and they were adorable together.  3 years later, Barney and Robin got divorced because Robin decided her marriage just didn't "work out" with her job.  Odd: Ted doesn't even marry his wife for 5 years because they just didn't get around to it, having 2 kids in the mean time.  What would have been wrong with having them get married like he always planned, and she was all for from the beginning?  Oh, and then she DIES 9 or 10 years later.

The season ends with Ted's 2 kids telling him that he really only told them all those stories to show them how much he loves Robin and told him to ask her out.  So, he does.  The end.  Ew. 

So: 2 seasons building up the most wonderful wedding and happy ending and they tore it all apart in the last 2 episodes??  Is there a small group that wanted Ted to end up with Robin?  Sure, maybe, but that's not what they REALLY wanted.  They wanted Ted to be happy, and for a long time (for who knows why) Ted wanted Robin. So, people may have voted for her.  But once you see how PERFECT his wife ended up being and how happy she made Ted, who could POSSIBLY vote for Robin?  What was wrong with the happy ending the entire series was leading up to?  Bad form, writers, bad form.

As you can guess, we are still very upset... mostly because really all we see is Robin ruining all the happy endings and then getting her own, completely undeserved, happy ending in the end.  I looked up the alternate ending.  It's better.  They could have made some cute projections into the future, but it is still 100x better! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoHUs8J7x94
 
Anyways.  A week and a half later, and we are STILL mad about that. We will probably send a strongly worded letter to the writers.  You know... years after it ACTUALLY ended... :P

*phew.  I haven't used THAT many caps in a while...

And to the normal stuff:

We had a blast at the Night at the Museums event!  This is a yearly shin dig where all 5 of the BYU museums open up from 7-10, show people all the cool stuff they don't usually keep open (we opened up the lab), and give out food!  This time we also had a scavenger hunt game going on.  Winners got free stuff!  I think Javier's favorite part was food and free t-shirt.  Also he got to hang out with his favorite Cretaceous crocodile, Dinosuchus.

The next day, we volunteered as councilors at the BYU Pow Wow for the BSA.  We had a fun time with the kids, but we also had to sit through an art merit badge 3 times and it wasn't very good :P  Those poor boys!  The teacher had 2 slides, barely any pictures and taught them like a professor.  He just explained abstract art concepts out loud... poor kids!  Next time, WE are taking over the classroom (: 

Also, we found out where we will be this summer: Summerlin, Nevada, in Las Vegas! You know what that means?  Our SD and Provo friends can come visit us (;  Speaking of Alterra, they had an Olympics activity.  Javier did super well!!  He even made ton the top 5 list for rock climbing.