I’m back! I already want to go home again… but I won’t be able to for another month when I go back for PROM of all things! That’ll be fun! I’ll probably be the oldest person there next to the teacher chaperones. Hehe! I’m wearing a pinstriped zoot suit. Heck ya! Catch ya all later!

Well tomorrow morning I FINALLY get to leave for Spring Break. Yay! My roommate and I are leaving as close to 8am as we can manage and should be at my house at about 9pm Iowa time. I can’t wait to get home… the first thing I want to do is kiss my girlfriend, then hug my parents, and then throw my luggage in my room and chill. *sigh* I CAN’T WAIT!!!!!! I hope all of you out there have a great, safe week and I’ll xanga y’all later!

Well I am back from my weekend in Jackson, Wyoming. I went up there to receive my fourth and final degree in knighthood, so now I am Sir Jacob instead of just Jake. Don’t worry, I won’t make my friends and family address me in such a manner, but I will sign things with my new title before my first name and most probably introduce myself with it too.

     The trip up was… an adventure, to say the least. The weather was kind of bad the first night, so we stayed in a hotel at the half-way point of our journey in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Then we began the rest of the trip north from there and about 15-20 miles south of our destination while driving through a canyon we witnessed a small portion of Nature’s wrath. An avalanche came sweeping down the hill, suddenly depositing a 10-foot wall of snow across the road. The pickup truck hauling a trailer in front of us stopped, and we tried. Oh we really tried, but we were on an icy downhill slope in a Honda Accord (our church’s Honda Accord no less) and we hit a protruding bar on the trailer, ripping out our front right headlight and the entire bumper, which was promptly jammed into the backseat. My friend, Ben, was driving and he insists that if the church doesn’t want the bumper, he is keeping it as a trophy. So we waited a couple hours to wait for the snow plows to clear the road and also to fill out police paperwork before we took off towards Jackson. We got to the church, ran downstairs to change into tuxedos, and then underwent the degree ceremony. After it was over, we had a prime rib dinner and then attended the evening Mass, at which we were formally knighted, having the blade of a sword tap us on the shoulders and everything. It was a great feeling to finally acheive a dream like achieving knighthood. It has been an ambition for the better half of this past decade, and now I am living it!

I hope all your weekends were all well and good. Mine was not terribly bad save for that avalanche. Watch out for those by the way; they have a habit of sneaking up on you.