Washingcon: Monday, July 16, 2007
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Lazy Monday
People slowly woke up and proceeded to do little of importance for most of the morning.
Playing Donkey Kong Country Competition
Playing video games
Playing Tetris
Reid and Camille, however, spent most of the morning making omelettes (and a few quesadillas) for everybody.
Reid putting salsa on an omelette
Once again, Trip performs his pagan oatmeal dance.
Trip into Marysville
Reid had planned on having certain EB Siege materials shipped to our convention house so we could all help out with them. However, once we finally managed to get an internet connection, we checked the appropriate shipment tracking website and discovered that they had our package listed as undeliverable. This prompted a trip to the Marysville Post Office to find out where our package was, and since we were in town anyway, we decided we'd go buy some supplies as well.
While we were waiting for Reid outside the post office, we found out that Jon's van had the most alarming child door lock icon we'd ever seen.
Just in case you needed to buy videos and shoes at the same time
We made a brief (two-hour) trip to Wal-Mart and headed home.
Dinner
The majority of us went right back to screwing around.
Playing Super Smash Bros. Melee
Air hockey
Kevin playing Guitar Hero
Joe playing a real guitar
Radiation sent us a packet for our enjoyment
No broadband is available at the house, so we were forced to hook up Paul's laptop to the phone line. Even for dial-up, our connection is slow.
Reid "enjoys" our new-found internet connection.
The computer rapidly became our public internet terminal, and it was promptly labeled as such. On the sign:
THE INTERNETS
"BLAZING FAST" DIAL-UP!
Martin (matilda_caboose) showed up that evening.
Reid, Martin, and Steve on the balcony
Joe and Camille made us some lasagna for dinner, and Conan made some ice cream.
Lasagna being prepared
Camille lays out the vegetarian lasagna as Trip carries ice for the ice cream
The vegetarian lasagna
Conan making ice cream
Joe shows off his meat lasagna
The meat lasagna
Beach Campfire
After dinner, we set up a campfire on our beach.
Brian gets ash on his face
Around the campfire
The campfire
Around the campfire
Around the campfire
Around the campfire
Around the campfire
Trip gave us a fireworks show.
Trip sets up
Fireworks
Fireworks
Fireworks
Fireworks
Fireworks
Fireworks
Fireworks
Of course, things didn't always go as planned:
[Animation provided by Joe]
(Click the image to see the animated version)
Joe took video of the fireworks.
[Raw footage provided by Joe, editing by Paul]
After the Fireworks
Paul decided to claim the closet under the main stairs for his mattress. When cleaning the closet, he discovered a bag of Easter bunnies.
Bag of Easter bunnies
Soon enough, the closet takeover was complete.