Barge and ditch

While Sarahs away Matt will Play!
So Its almost time for Sarah to get back from the Carolinas and while i did not anticipate how much i would miss her and Emma (A LOT) I sure had a lot of fun in their absence. Two bigger events happened in the last few days that i was a part of. First of all their was the big Oil Spill and clean up along the Mississippi River. So I really wanted to see them lift the barge out of the water (it sank after the wreck) So they finally started strapping it up to lift it out last week. So after work I would go watch to see the progress...There was usually no progress but i got word on saturday that they might be raising the part of the barge finally...so i got to the port just in time to see them put this BIG oily barge piece on another barge...THEN they brought it to the bank i was standing on! So i was within 10 feet of this way cool barge..I was watching the news that night and they had put police tape up and you could not get within 100 yards of it now. A Way cool adventure.

Coast Guard Photo of Barge stick up out of water and crane boats and and the barge they are going to put it on

I took this from the bank with the camera phone

Today i went to a birthday party for a little girl at work...It was a blast i got to be the offical grill master and cooked chicken, hamburgers, garden burgers, sauage, and hot dogs. I also got to be a pool monitor and watch soem cuties swim around the pool....As i was leaving i got to help get a car out of this BIG ditch...to bad it was my car....But after getting a truck and rope and chain we pulled her out...YEAY GOD!!...We ended up with the front left bumper being crack and dented in...But i popped her out and ill work on getting the crack filled...could have been worse if i had rolled (which as i was going in the ditch i was almost sure was going to happen)....Yeay God again!...