Gimme That (Boom Boom Splash)

July 4th is a very interesting holiday here in the Bell-friends clan. Last week we went with Pete and Dave to Ohio to get fireworks, so we were ready! We had 11 tubes and about 150 mortars, and a whole lot of fuse, random smaller fireworks, plus sparklers and our friend Sara brought five containers of glow sticks. I would have been impossible NOT to have a good night, though we did exceed every possible expectation of fun. We set off all of the mortars except about 15 which we packed away for next year. We all put on glow-stick jewelry and danced and boogied. With Sara's stop-motion camera setting, we got really great photos like this one:

Also, we learned something very interesting. If you're in the same yard as where the fireworks are going off, the coolest thing that you can do is lay down on a blanket, on your back, and watch them explode above you. Very intense.

Friday we had another fun adventure; Nate took the day off and we went with Pete and Sara to Michigan's Adventures! Turns out that Pete had never gone down a water slide, and Nate had only gone down the ones last week at the East Lansing water park, so Sara and I had a BLAST (pun intended) showing them around the water park. We were there from 12:30 to 4:00, before the lines started getting a bit long and we decided to go home. We had a really great time conquering rides; from the Lazy River to the fast and dark Snake Pit!

One more fun and interesting thing: I am putting my liberal arts education to work! I got a part-time job as the Animal Advocacy writer for Examiner.com. You can visit my page and see my articles here:
http://www.examiner.com/animal-advocacy-3-in-lansing/justine-bell

The articles are supposed to be 300-400 works in length, which is like 10% of a paper at Earlham, so they are super easy and fun to write. I get to be more exciting the more people read my pages, so please click the link above and read! I just started Friday, so there is only one so far. Thanks!

Hope things are going well with everyone! We are getting more and more excited about the Kahler-Bell Torch adventure every day!!!!!!