The Fair '10

These past 10 days, I have been employed by the Clark County Fair. Making minimum wage, I worked 8 hours a day, plus a 1 hour unpaid lunch. My job was as a worker in the General Worker Pool, or as a GWP. This required sitting endlessly at a picnic table waiting for jobs, doing paper pickups, cleaning the grandstands, sweeping, and doing ice delivery.
I befriended Corban, the Ice guy who actually graduated from my school. He's awesome. I made some friends, David, Dennis, and Bryce. I will never see them again, but it was nice to get to know them.

Doing grandstand cleaning was the job everybody feared. At around 8:30 every morning, all the GWP's without excuses went to clean it. We would spray the whole thing down with a fire hose, and the scrub it with sponge mops, and the rinse it again. The process takes between 1-3 hours, depending.
It was very hot this week, so the two preferred jobs were ice, and the Walk on Water shift. Walk on Water was an area in the Exhibition Hall were you could get in a giant hamster ball, play dry in the water, and splash. We, then pick up slashed water with a Zamboni. The main benefit, is being in the air conditioning.
After I got off work at 5, I was in the fair for free. I watched Tucker do 4H with Emma, were he won a major award in Showmanship, rode some rides, Got an amazing 1/2 price deal on great jerky (The Jerky Hut) and watched shows.
The Monster trucks and destruction derby (especially the truck round) were cool. When Californian Kid, a monster truck, tipped in freestyle, Rockstar then proceeded to drive up the flipped truck, and the two of them fit perfectly. I the Derby Truck Round, this old Ford destroyed the competition, and the truck was hardly damaged. It was definately built Ford Tough.

I also saw some interesting things. I saw a really small horse, a rip off, a giant pig, really cool, some good artwork, and crazy etch-a-sketches.

The fair was tiring and hot, but also really fun.

Restarting Blogging

I haven't blogged in around 2 years, but I re-did my blog and am going to pick it back up. I will start off with some cool photo's

Moving In

We have finally moved into our house! After over one and a half years, we are now out of the garage apartment and into our downstairs house. I have my own room, and although small, I love it. I am having a great time living in our new, full house. Our Christmas Tree looks great in our family room, even with half unpacked boxes surrounding it.

Summer

Over the summer, I did a lot more than I posted about. My uncle moved from Pennsylvania to here. With him, we hiked Multnomah Falls, went to the Zoo, touched the end of the ape caves, stayed at the beach several times and stayed at the Lewis River along with relaxing with him. After about two months, he left for a year long trip to Laos.

I attended boy scout camp in Idaho and pulled several "G's" at Silverwood. We went to the fair almost every day and rode lots of rides. Staying on Mt. hood was fun also. We have finished laying floor and our grass grows taller every day. School has started and our relaxing break is over, but we accomplished a lot and enjoyed summer.

Here is me, mom, Emma and Berk with tucker at Multnomah Falls.

Here we are at the Zoo.

Here we are in the ape caves.


The beach was a lot of fun.

I love the Lewis River.

While hiking to Timberline, there were some amazing views.

We got to ride our bikes a lot, which I enjoy to do.

Grit '08

On June 29th, I left for Grit at Island Lake Camp.

With Motto-X, a high ropes course and paintball, I had a blast.

During our seven hours of free time, we could swim, boat, skateboard,

roller blade, play carpet bowl and...... Blob!

Even with all those activities, I had time to sleep.

I was lucky enough to get put on Tom's team, yellow, and we completely

crushed the other three teams. My dad came to lead the 9th graders

and my uncle led my group until my regular leader arrived.

In comp, my dad's green team came in 4th place, but he still had fun.

He became friends with his group and led one to Christ.

Overall, 12 kids became Christians and 23 were baptized.

On Wednesday night, we all brought pillows to the church area

and had communion while worshipping for about 3 hours.

I got to grow in Christ while having lots of fun.

Go Grit!

Funny Prank

This is hilarious! But, it would suck if that happened to you.

What to do with your Spare Time

Whoever this is has way to much time on his hands! There was another video of this same thing by this same guy, and it was three times longer. Still, this is cool.