Whew. I'm amazed at what we were able to fit into our lives this week given that Wayne had three midterms and I had a midterm and a project that took 30 hours of my time (on top of normal homework and other projects and research of course--I wrote an outline for my new thesis proposal so I'm starting to get somewhere there).
Yesterday we went up to Rock Canyon with one of Wayne's friends and Karl and Angela to install some "prayer flags." I believe we had over 40 (probably 44?) 6-8 foot poles (dead branches we found in the park near our house) with Target bags tied to the tops of them as the flag. We hiked up a fairly steep cliff, hoping not to slip down, and used rocks to help set up these flags. It actually went much more quickly than I expected, but Wayne wants to try it again and tweak some of the visual elements of the project. Like, instead of putting all the flags in a clump, maybe put them in a line along a trail or something. We'll see. Now we have all the branches (I think it took longer to collect and find the poles than it did to put them up!) so we can do it again. Read about what the idea is behind the prayer flags here.
We also came to the conclusion after some more research on digital cameras and converting digital images to slide format that digital cameras just aren't yet "good enough" for that. From what we've read, in order to get the same clarity and quality in a slide made from a digital image as from old-fashioned film, we would need a 10-11 MP camera. Even the thousand dollar camera we looked at was "only" 8 MP. And we can't even afford that. So for now, we'll try taking our own slides from film using my film camera. Hopefully we'll be able to take nice enough quality ones ourselves. [I used to be really confident of taking my own slides of my art work until I had a really bad stretch when I took over three rolls of slide film and all of it was ruined by over or underexposure. Ever since then I've been really gun shy to get back into taking my own slides. - Wayne]
Again I did no homework on Saturday, between the prayer flags, the temple, dropping paintings off at the Springville Art Museum to try and get into a show there, and going to see Wallace and Gromit. But we had fun! Which I think we needed after surviving the week. Wallace and Gromit was sooo fun. It makes our official list of "movies we want to own someday." Which is a pretty short list, so that says a lot. :)
I also saw a couple of friends on Saturday for wedding dress shopping. One of my former roommates while I was doing my undergrad at BYU is getting married, and came out to visit family and make plans, so Christy came down from Idaho and I made it to the mall to visit as well. It was fun to hang out with Angela and Christy - I only wish I had longer to spend!
The rest of the week was full of homework and exams and projects and work. Oh here's a funny tidbit...Wayne got a 24 cent raise at work (yay for him!) and he now makes more per hour than I do. Hehehe. Silly CS department. On Tuesday I went to the stake youth standards night, where they fed us and talked about Joseph Smith. Seems to be the theme for the whole year. :)
Star has been nothing but trouble this week too. I think it's because we've been gone so much that she thinks she can get away with jumping on tables and climbing inside our box springs. Wayne talked with his Psych class on how we might be able to positively reinforce proper behavior. It's a tricky thing...how do we give her positive reinformcement [or positive punishment?] for *not* going under the bed? So maybe we'll try out some of their ideas.
Anyway, that's all folks. Hope you all have a fun week. And our letter next week will be late, since we'll be driving back from Oregon next Sunday. Loves to all!
Becca and Wayne
ps. go see pictures of some of our recent work at karl and angela's site.
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