Selected Excerpt from my European Diary Part 2: Roads and Cars

Roads are goofy here. There aren't any differentiating lines; they're all just white dashed lines. Sometimes you see solid white lines but rarely and yellow lines don't even exist. It's crazy because looking at the road, you can't tell if it's two ways or just one without seeing street signs. Sometimes you can't even tell if there are multiple lanes but in reality there are a couple but it definitely looks like a one lane road. Also trains seem to go on the left track while cars go in the right lane. Ironic. And the roads are all tiny! I'm talking about Great Falls size and even smaller. I guess it helps that their cars are way tiny but it's not proportional to the reduction in street size. 

Selected Excerpt from my European Diary Part 1: Trains and Bathrooms

One of my most favorite things about trains is that the bathrooms empty straight onto the tracks; they're generally just holes in the train straight down. There's a sense of accomplishment when you poop on the tracks, not to mention the Eco friendly benefits of not adding to local landfills. It's usually pretty enjoyable as well because the holes provide a nice breeze, due to the pressure change in the air, on your posterior that you wouldn't otherwise experience.

While we're on the subject of bathrooms, don't call them that in Europe. When you say that, they envision a bath room, a room for bathing. They'll eye you funny and won't know what to say. They don't understand restroom too well either. Water closet or toilette are the preferred nomenclature and you'd be wise to cut to the point if you're in an emergency to go.

Gymnastics 103: Rings and High Bar Giants

I did a flyaway dismount off the rings but they didn't catch it on film. Also I'm strapped in on the high bar so no cool dismount. I haven't tried to do giants without the straps yet...

Gymnastics 102: Front flips...

With the vault, not bad...

without the vault, even better...

Gymnastics 101

Preston Redd on the P-Bars. Performing the level b routine.

Judges? 15.6

Preston Redd performing the level b routine on the floor.

9.6, not bad.

Hang Ten

I'm not that big of a surfer but I can hold my own. A couple of weeks ago, Greg, Melissa, Megan, and I all went. Here's a little sample of me hanging ten...

It's even harder with someone else on back...

Greg and Melissa weren't bad either... that photographer has a pretty good zoom on that camera...

Women's Foot Size

Why are women's foot sizes different? Is this weird to anyone else? Is it so that guys don't know how big girls feet actually are? We have no idea what the difference is, we just know it's smaller than men's sizes. This way girls with big feet can still feel petite. Just a thought.