They were so beautiful and didn't seem to be bothered by people watching them. I took about 10 pictures.
Kerri brought her binoculars to get a closer look.
Although you can't tell from the pictures, the feathers were incredibly detailed.
Even though it was windy and gross outside, the swans just swam around the ponds peacefully... impervious to us... to the guy chasing geese off the flag football field with a net... not even moving their heads at all...
Because- as we realized after 5 full minutes of oohing and ahhing- they were fake. Those incredibly detailed feathers? I guess you can do a lot with plastic these days. The groundskeepers must have put then in the ponds to scare away other birds. I'm guessing it will work because they sure fooled us.
Leaving nature alone, Friday night Daniel and I went over to check out the opening of the new UW Union South.
It's pretty fancy. There's a bowling alley, a rock climbing wall, a movie theater, food court type restaurants, a bar/grill, concert space, and offices and meeting rooms. Daniel is happy that he will be able to cut through it to get from the computer science building to the engineering building during the winter.
It was pretty packed, but we were able to catch a free showing of The Social Network. Although I was obviously not a computer science major at Harvard, the movie did take me back to my undergrad days in the early 2000s. The whole idea of spending a Friday evening watching a movie at the student union was reminiscent of Gator Nights. I thought the movie was pretty good, but I did have a hard time watching any part with Justin Timberlake in it and not thinking "Hey! That's Justin Timberlake! Wow! Justin Timberlake is in this movie!" Daniel didn't like the message it gave that good and innovative computer science is all about hacking and binge drinking and twizzlers. But he did say they got the parts about Mt. Dew and Asian girls right. He also plans to start writing all the solutions to problems he's working on on the window.
Skipping ahead to today...
It's 9:30am on Sunday, and I have the whole day ahead with no obligations. Normally we'd be going to church now, but Daniel went in to work on a paper he's submitting to a conference on Thursday, and we've already heard the sermon so I decided to stay home.
On the agenda:
- Update the blog
- Apply to a summer fruit/veg and a meat CSA - I've done the research. Now I just have to get the printer to work
- Go through our "in box" and deal with mail, etc.
- 1 hour Dave Farmar yoga podcast
- Practice the piano
- Figure out what I'm going to bake for our church group meeting tomorrow night
- Walk to the store (I have the car, but it's beautiful out!) to get ingredients
- Update our budget
- Get lunch stuff ready for the week
If there's time:
- Work on my afghan while watching a movie/ Pushing Daisies?
- Do some vacation research?
Hope everyone in NC is doing alright after the crazy storms yesterday. Get out there and enjoy some nature!
