Fall Classes

Last night Jimmy and I had our first class for Fall semester. This is Jimmy's second semester in Grad school, 3rd including summer, and this is my first semester in Grad school. This was my first class in 4 years. I will say though, that I was not the oldest student in the class. My professor was a lot of fun and really kept everyone's attention. Jimmy and I both have two more classes, one tonight and one tomorrow night. Our schedule works out great in that we both have classes on the same nights, all his classes start at 5:30 and mine start right around there 5, 5:30 and 4. Now comes the fun part of both of us trying to divide time between classes, studying, the gym, and working full time. It's going to take some work and trial and error to see what works, but we'll do it.

Bloomsburg Fair

I can not tell you how excited I am about the Bloomsburg Fair. It is officially less than a month away. The fair is from September 20-September 27th. Right now the plan is to go on the 20th and 21st. I already know what food I am going to be getting. The fair is just one of the reasons I love fall!!!! I love the Bloomsburg Fair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vacation

Jimmy and I got to go on a small vacation. We decided to go to Cedar Point, Ohio. On Saturday morning we went to Bloomsburg to see Jimmy's mom and dad and his sister and the girls. The girls are getting so big and are so much fun!!! Mom and Dad are doing a lot of work to the house and it looks great. New siding, a new deck, new roof, and so much more. Everyone can't wait to see what it looks like when it's all finished. On Sunday morning we left Bloom around 5:30 in the morning to head to Ohio. I slept most of the way out, that's what I do best. We got to the hotel, Castaway Bay, got all our tickets and then changed into our swimming clothes. We headed over to Soak City, which is Cedar Point's water park. We went on the slides and floated down the two lazy rivers. It was a warm day, so we picked a perfect day to go to the water park. Around 3ish we decided to head back to the hotel to see if our room was ready, which it was, so we napped and showered and headed out for dinner. We decided to try this pizza buffet right down the road. Let me just say we will never go there again. It was very dirty and yucky!! The pizza wasn't good. Just a bad experience. We are very spoiled when it comes to pizza buffets.

Monday morning we ate breakfast at the hotel and then headed over to the park. We got into the park early because of the hotel package we bought. We headed right for the Top Thrill Dragster. This roller coaster is 420 feet tall and is 120 mph. What an awesome ride. What a rush!!! After that we went on some more rides. It was pretty hot and muggy so we decided we would eat lunch in a restaurant and then maybe take a break. We ate lunch and then rode one more ride and decided to head back to the hotel for a nap and shower. After the nap and shower we headed back to the park and tried riding more rides, but the lines were crazy long, so we just walked around. We went back to the hotel and ordered room service.

Tuesday morning we got up and got everything ready to go home. We checked out and then went to the water park at the hotel. We didn't think it was going to be that great, but once we got in and went on some of the rides we were having fun. We didn't stay too long because we wanted to get home at a decent time. Thank gosh we left when we did because it took forever to get home.

All in all it was a nice vacation. Definitely too short, but oh well. We did a lot of relaxing and had a lot of laughs.

2nd Annual Andy Knappenberger Scholarship Fund Golf Outing

When my Uncle Andy was killed two years ago we set up a scholarship fund for a high school senior at Lehighton High School that was going to further his/her education. For the 2nd year in a row we have had a golf outing to support the scholarship fund. This year's outing was this past Saturday. I handle planning the event and the family helps getting sponsors and donations. We had 116 golfers this year. This year's tournament was a morning tournament with the start at 8 a.m. Registration began at 7 a.m. So I was up at 5 a.m. to start getting ready. Mom and I were at the country club by 6 a.m. to start setting up registration and everything. Registration went smooth and we got the golfers started. If you looked up the valley it looked like it was going to rain, dark clouds were everywhere. For quite some time the dark clouds followed the mountains and passed us. Up until about 11ish. Then it poured. And I mean poured. All the golfers came in the cart barn and were there for about an hour or so. After the rain stopped we got them back out on the course and they finished golfing.

After they were done golfing we had a lunch/early dinner pig roast at the farm. We rented a big tent and table and chairs and had everything there. There was soooo much food. You name it we had it, even PIG!!!! Once the golfers were done eating we did door prizes, awards, and had a live auction. After we were done with everything for the outing we just hung out with some friends of the family under the tent. All in all it was a great tournament, could've done without the rain but we think Pappy, Andy, and Jack were jealous they couldn't golf this year.

Thanks to everyone who sponsored, donated something, volunteered their time, golfed, and anything else you might have done to support this great event. Until next year...