Old Main Beach Bums

Sometime over the Easter weekend Old Main Hill on campus turned into a beach. It's a fun place to go sledding in the winter and it always looks really nice in the summer when the grass is green etc. We take the bus up to campus and walk the steps down it every day. It is usually a nice relaxing walk home but over the weekend a bunch of seagulls invaded the entire hill. Their attach was not uninvited, though, as I soon discovered when I walked home. I understand people having easter egg hunts on that hill but it looks like maybe a whole stake or something had an easter egg fight there! There are thousands of colored, boiled eggs on the hill -- all smashed. And it really stinks too. Especially today since it rained. Anyway, the smell, the colors, the entire atmosphere has prompted millions of our state bird to come and turn that place into a beach. It sounds just like it and they are everywhere. I've almost stepped on a couple birds and am surprised I haven't been poo-bombed yet. I'm so disgusted.

We tried out our kitchenaid mixer last week to make bread. It was a good try. Now the bread is a tad moldy because it didn't cook all the way. The loaf was huge though. I bet the bread outside the pan was twice as big as what was inside. And the bread we did get smelled like yeast and resembled pound cake. We'll try again later.

Finally finished the puzzle. We made good headway over conference weekend and decided to finish it the Monday after. We were a tad worried that we would have some pieces missing (always aggravating) since we got it from DI. In fact the reason we got it from DI was because the box had a big note that said it was "certified" to have all the pieces there. And we were not disappointed. All 1,500 pieces were there and contrary to our beliefs at the start of the project, they all did fit someplace.

The day before Easter we went to Wal-Mart to get some Easter candy. Sara loves those cadbury eggs and we went to get some but everyone kept saying they were gone. We got to the easter candy isle (which was packed) and occasionally someone would find a little treasure trove of the eggs and they would be gone in seconds. I'v never done the Black Friday shopping thing but I think it may have been similar. We found our own little treasure of eggs. I'm pretty sure we go the last package too. It was all by itself hidden behind some other stuff. I think that is Wal-Mart's way of creating an easter egg hunt for adults.