Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Recent Reads

Amongst readings of dry textbooks, I finally finished the 5th Harry Potter book: Order of the Phoenix. The book was 900 freakin pages and took me forever to finally finish. It was good though and I actually finished this one before the movie was released. The previous trend was that I would finish the book after the movie was released and Megan would be waiting for me to finish the book so that we could go see the movie. In my defense, I was already 2 movies behind when I first started reading the books.

The previous four books I read where also Harry Potter, so I've decided to take a break from HP before reading the 6th (and eventually the 7th when it's released). I received three new books for Christmas:

I decided to go with Next because I have read almost every Michael Crichton book but it had been awhile since I had read any of his (the last was Prey). I also thought it would be a nice change from reading 5 Harry Potter's in a row.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Sibling's Day

Last Saturday (2/24/07) was Sibling's Day for Megan's sorority. Ryan came up earlier in the week and was staying at Clint's. Saturday morning, Megan and Ryan came to my apartment and we headed off to Power Play. Megan looked up the directions on MapQuest and it showed Power Play being in Independence, MO about 30 miles away (map). So, we headed off and about 30 or 40 minutes later, we were at our exit, but with no Power Play insight. Megan called her friends to find out exactly where it was, and they were saying they were at 62nd and Pflumm off of Shawnee Mission Parkway. What???? This is nowhere near where we are (Independence, MO), and I actually live pretty close to 62nd and Pflumm. So, we make a complete U-turn and had Megan (other Megan) look up directions on the Internet to the correct location. Finally, 1.5 hours later, we ended up at the correct location (map). Here are the correct directions. Megan felt real bad about it, but don't worry Megan cause we had a good road trip :)

We immediately hit up the buffet because we were starving by then. Here's a pic just after we ate (don't we look plump and full?):


I'd also like to add that it was pretty amazing we actually got Ryan to pose for a picture.

Then, we got down on some gaming. We mostly hit up the basketball and air hockey games:


Of course, Megan being blonde and in a Sorority, ended up losing the card they gave each of us that had points for playing the games. Sorry Megan, I couldn't resist. Finally, I'd like to end this with some picks of Ryan and I doing some serious cap poppin: