Hey y’all! 

I did a million things over the course of 3 weeks… I split my time between San Antonio (my hometown) and Austin (my university town). My parents went to Wisconsin to watch my brother race while I was in Austin, so I did a lot more sightseeing there than I did in San Antonio. Let the photos tell the story! 

See y’all in class! 

This sign is on the side of a coffee shop in Austin. It’s a super famous place to take a photo, and I’ve done it many times throughout my life. 

Driving with Jeramine down Congress Avenue

The very famous Austin Motel. It’s been in many movies, TV shows, magazines, newspapers and more! 

A Starbucks in Austin

Going to the Yeti store- look it up, it’s worth it! 

Seeing this cool exhibit at the Blanton Museum of Art

Austin’s contemporary art museum 

The Texas capital building- Austin is the capital of the State

Inside the building and under the dome

The Italian restaurant that Jeramine and I had lunch at 

Trenton and I leaving a restaurant after we picked up breakfast tacos

Sitting in front of my universities tower 

Seeing an ancient Roman bust at the San Antonio Museum of Art

The world famous Allen Boots in Austin. Anybody who is anyone, who has been to Texas, has been here. 

Seeing Iron Man at the San Antonio Museum of Art

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気づけば今年も残り3か月…

I hope you’ve all been enjoying my blogs about the Disney parks! This week we’re going to look at the second of Disney World’s two water parks, Typhoon Lagoon!

Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon is a water theme park located at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida near Orlando. It is the second water park to open at the resort, preceded by Disney’s River Country which closed in November 2001.

The park, which opened on June 1, 1989, is home to one of the world’s largest outdoor wave pools where you can even bodysurf. The park is themed around the idea that a typhoon wreaked havoc upon a formerly pristine tropical paradise. Ships, fishing gear, and surfboards are strewn about where the storm flung them. Its centerpiece is “Miss Tilly”, a shrimp boat impaled upon a mountain named “Mount Mayday” that erupts a 50-foot geyser of water every half hour, right before the bells of the watch sound on it. Its mascot is “Lagoona Gator”.

In 2016, the park admitted approximately 2,277,000 visitors, currently making it the second most visited water park in the world.

Mount Mayday, located behind the surf pool, features “Miss Tilly” as well as many of the waterfalls and slides. It is a man-made mountain which not only provides launching areas for the water slides but also conceals the pipework.

The main engineering works performed in 1988 and 1989 featured studies, design, and tests on water wave generation and propagation. As the Typhoon Lagoon was one of the first wave-makers applied to a theme park, one of its prime objectives was to produce surfable waves. Waves are generated by a 12-cell prestressed concrete tank in the background of the lagoon covered with the shipwreck scene. Computer modeling techniques were used at the time to study fluid-structure interaction, stress concentrations, and fatigue to ensure integrity and safety. Prior to its opening, the Typhoon Lagoon was tested to determine wave shape, surf-board ride duration, and the extent to which the waves give a natural feeling as they propagate and break on the artificial beach downstream.

This is part three of the right hand versus left hand challenge.

How is my Hello!s teddy character doing? He’s looking pretty shakey….

Here, I began to colour the left one with my favourite Laurentien coloured pencils. I wonder how it will turn out?

Yikes! What happened?? Something I didn’t account for when I was doing this Challenge is broken leads. Never drop your pencil crayons! If you do, there’s a good chance that it will shatter the lead inside the pencil. Then, every time you sharpen it, the broken leads will keep coming out.

Even with the broken leads, I still did my best to power through this exercise. Not only was I using my non dominant hand, but I also had the challenge of broken leads!

How will this turn out? Due to the unforeseen challenges, stay tuned for Part 4!