Chemistry Magic Show

Last week was National Chemistry Week in honor of October 23, known to nerds everywhere as "Mole Day". The BYU Chem Department does lots of fun activities during the week, and we took part in a few. 

Last Wednesday, we took Tim to the Chemistry Magic Show. We didn't stay for all of it because it was past bedtime, but Tim loved all the balloons. Even the fires and explosions.

And of course, we got some liquid nitrogen ice cream!

Tim loved to clap for everything! :-)

Stockroom Fun

A few weeks ago, Tim and I went down to the Benson Building to have an indoor picnic lunch with Jake. Afterwards, we stopped by to visit Jake's coworkers in the stockroom. They were kind enough to share some ice cream with Tim.

A Chemistry Celeb!

Back in October, Jake volunteered to help out with the National Chemistry Week Festivities here at BYU. Mainly he helped out with the liquid nitrogen ice cream. 

YUM. I made 3-4 special trips to campus that week just for the ice cream. I even got them to custom make a batch of Reeses ice cream for me. (The perks of having a brilliant scientist for a husband).

Anyway, they just found out that Y-Chem (the chemistry club on campus) just received an award from the American Chemical Society for their activities during Chemistry Week. 

Whose picture was in the article announcing this?

JAKE! That's who!

Articles about Chemistry Week (that feature Jake's face) can be found here and here.

Awesome Saturday!

Today was an Awesome Saturday!! Here is how it went. With some photo documentation. :-)

Jake and I got up and headed down the street pretty early this morning - around 8:45. Which is early for a Saturday!! We started out our morning with a free blue pancake breakfast!

We got blue pancakes!

And blue milk to go with it!

Here is Jake enjoying his pancakes! (They were yummy. I especially enjoyed the chocolate chips.)

YUM!!

We were glad we got there early, even if it meant waiting around an hour until the parade started. Because this was the line when we started eating.

I had gotten cold and pulled my arms into my hoodie. Jake decided to take advantage of this situation and tie me into a straight jacket... Which didn't help me keep warm at all.

Here are some of our favorite floats:

The Class of 1959 was in town for their fiftieth reunion. So their class officers were in a float! And their Homecoming Queen! She's the one sitting on the back! We thought it was cute!! :-)

Of course, the Folk Dancers were also some of my favorites! This was my first year not performing in the parade with them. I waxed nostalgic!

The Mayor of Provo and his family rode in the parade on a golf cart and some Segways! The Mayor and his son even did tricks and twists and such on their Segways. This was their body guard... He didn't do any tricks though...

The Museum of Paleontology had DINOSAURS on their float!!!

The new pizza restaurant, "Pirate Island" had a float!! Which was pretty epic! They even had a Jack Sparrow look alike who spoke with the accent and everything. We're going to go there for my birthday in a couple weeks and I am all kinds of excited!!

After the parade, we did some cleaning around the apartment. Dishes and such. Then Carsey came over. We were attempting to dye my hair reddish for Halloween. (Note the use of the word "attempting".) Turns out the dye was heat activated though... which explains why it didn't change colors at all... So we'll try it again.

Then, Jake and I went and did a session at the temple. Which was enjoyable. It was pretty empty - probably since we were there during the football game. The only thing that puzzled me was that there was a Box Elder bug in the Celestial Room... How did it get there?!?!?

After we were done at the temple, we went to Coney's for ice cream. They had a special $0.50 cone special going on. So we got two awesome ice cream comes for a dollar!

GREAT SATURDAY! :-)