The most exciting thing about this past weekend is that it SNOWED the entire time!! Nothing accumulated on campus, but you can see on other hills that some stuck. The temperatures are down to about 33F midday so it's time to bundle up to go outside!! I went to a rugby game Saturday to watch Garrett play. Garrett is another grad student with Dave that I met in the GIS lab. It was really cold watching the game since it was snowing, but I brought some tea to keep warm!
Last night was Starvation Gulch on campus. This is a campus tradition where they set up for 5-6 HUGE fires and then light them all and we watch them burn. Someone was telling me this started up a long time ago when students studied here in the summer so they didn't have to spend the cold winters here. People would build little shacks out of plywood to live in in that same parking lot and then at the end of the summer, there was no point in keeping them around so they set them all on fire! Now the just pile up palates and anything else that will burn. Below are a few pictures of the fires!
Besides that it was a pretty low-key weekend, but somehow was pretty busy! I am spending this afternoon in the college coffeehouse doing some reading to get ready for the busy week!!
My desk!
A tree in the fire!
The "fire truck"
I had to!!!
Snow up in the hills! Below is the parking lot where the fires were the night before!
