Wherever you go, oh won't you take me please?: 2011

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Amazing Beginnings

Even though we had OVs yesterday, if I don't talk about the Science Museum I will lose my mind. Last Saturday I attended the OVs at Speedway and Plainfield. Brittany Winebar let me ride with her and her Bethel #34 girls- Carolyn and Sophie. After the OV at Plainfield, we headed down to the Louisville Science Center for an overnight. Unfortunately because of the Official Visits we didn't get there until the classes downstairs were almost over. There was a great turnout with over 100 participants. I was really happy to see Bethels take advantage of the great opportunity. After a group snack, we split up to do the scavenger hunt.

Dispute my overly competitive nature, we didn't develop a great system for the scavenger hunt until later in the game. We did, however, develop a group call so we no longer needed to stick together. When one of us found the answer to a question we yelled out, "ka-kaw." We were judged for it, but I believe those judgments stemmed from jealousy. After the scavenger hunt- which we did not win- but was won by Bethels from Louisville and Jeffersonville, we watched an IMAX movie. I feel like they may have had the upperhand and potentially practiced before we arrived. One day it will come time to play Disney Scene-It and that is a battle you will lose. You lose that battle 9 times out of 10. Back to the Museum...

The Best Part of the Night. After the movie, everyone got their bags, pillows and blankets and picked a part of the museum to sleep in. You can literally sleep anywhere, which I thought was really cool. Brittany, Carolyn, and Sophie brought me to our sleeping location that they had found earlier, the Amazing Beginnings Room. Imagine with me. The room was enclosed with windows on the left. The image of a baby was blown up on the window. On the other side of the room were tubules with replications of developing fetuses. One of the tubes was empty though so that does raise the question of Alien Abduction. There was a light illuminating the tubules that changed color periodically. And while I have captured the room through images, there is no documentation that can truly describe the noise in the room. Over the sound system, we listened to what a baby listens to all night- some classical music, their heartbeat and their parents talking indistinctly.

The next morning we all shared a quick breakfast then left to head back to Indianapolis. It was a great event and I'm glad so many people were able to attend. Thank you to Julie Cox for organizing the event.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Once more you open the door

Last night was the long awaited DeMolay Sweetheart Dance. It was extremely well attended. There were people that I looked for all night and couldn't find until the end of the night because of the crowd. The music was good and everyone seemed to have a good time. I personally was a fan of the 90's at 9.

The best part of the evening was the drawing for the King and Queen of the night. James Gordan won king (shock!). Morgan Fisher won Queen and the two shared an adorable dance. I'm proud to have been present for the song selection, suggested by Libbie Sutherland. And our hearts all went on last night.

Brittany Winebar, Tara Disbrow and I started working on our dance moves last night. I have a theory that if we can bank about 30 awesome dance moves that's all we'll ever need to know. We can use rearrange them and pull them out when necessary. So far we're at like 6 moves. I'm really counting on Dance Central to teach me what I need to know to get by in social situations.

Today has been a good day. I spent quite a bit of the day with Brittany working on things for Session. I hope everyone had a good time and you are all getting ready for the term to start up.