"The Scooter" Rolls On

On Monday, at the complete age of 89, Phil Rizzuto died. Among the best shortstops, he also was honored as a broadcaster for the New York Yankees for decades. In respect of his death, yesterday at Yankee Stadium, his former home field, the Yankees wore the number 10 on their sleeves to remember him. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame as an MVP, and a player winning in seven World Series and nine Pennants.

His body build was not large at all, only weighing 150 and 5' 6" tall. In his career he batted .273 and stole 149 bases. Being as successful as he was as a rookie, he became a replacement in shortstop for Frank Crosetti. Boston Red Sox great, Ted Williams, often said the reason that the Yankees beat them so many times in the American League pennant race, was because of Rizzuto. Rissuto played a big role in baseball both on the field and off, we will always remember him.

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3x history

Alex Rodriguez has finally done it, 500 homers, taking him 10 days to jump from 499 to the title. 500 is big, that's alot of home runs for one man to hit. Very few men can reach that many, one being Barry Bonds who hit 756 the other day, breaking Hank Aaron's record for home runs in a career, which reminds us of Tome Glavine pitching 300 wins in his career. These three, no matter what it took them to get the have made history, and history is history.

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Camp

I am leaving for Camp Rudolph on Sunday! I can't wait, it will be so much fun :). I will miss you guys, but don't miss me to much, i'll be having to much fun to worryabout missing people too much. I will get a great chance to learn more about God, meet new freinds, and talk to Levi [the dean]. It would be nice to come back to some nice comments. Below I will list the things I will be doing every day at camp.

Devotions with family groups
Breakfast
Morning classes/crafts (either split up in different rotating groups or all together)
Lunch
Rest time
Recreation/Pool (half of the campers are in organized rec, half in the pool)
Canteen (the canteen is open for campers to buy drinks and snacks)
Recreation/Pool (groups switch depending on where they were first Rec)
Dinner
Vespers (praise and worship followed by a speaker)
Evening Activity (usually a camp wide game)
Canteen
Campfire (praise and worship at the campfire with a short devotional message)
Bed

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Hidenwood

Today was fun because I went to my friend Ben's pool party at Hidenwood pool. It was really fun, we had a diving contest, water basketball game, and dunking war; and the best part was, it was all unorganised :). Ben, Justin, Erik, Chris, and Myself had a great time. We would munch on cookies and chips, and drink during the 15 minute adult swim break that took place every 45 minutes.

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Barry in the "Bonds" of Steroids

Home-run champ Barry Bonds, is a dissapointment to baseball, and the San Fransisco Giants. He has been using drugs to "improove" his play, not thinking of the consequences. He is only a few homers away from breaking Hank Aaron's 755 career home run record.This hall-of-famer was honerable and set the record without the use of drugs. Aaron deserved the record, Bonds would be a shame to the record. I am not Blaming Bonds without knowing his crime, in fact everyone knows of his crime. His head grew a whole hat size, and his shoe size grew about three sizes. My hope is that he won't break the record, and that a more honerable, pure ball player will. Sports officials are considering him as a Hall of Fame nominee. Baseball fan, George Vacca said, "If Pete Rose Wasn't allowed to be Inducted into the hall of fame, why should Bonds?"...."It's pretty obvious the he's been juiced up for a while, if your head grows a whole hat size, you know somthings wrong". Now we just watch and wait.

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Diamonds, Heat, and Busted Tires... Oh my!!!

[Flashback to cross-country trip] We woke up in Arkansas and drove to the "Crater of Diamonds". We arrived there regitered and searched for gems... but found nothing. We searched in the heat of the day, it mustv'e been 100 degrees. We left hot and sweaty and drove for hours on the highway, but then ............................................................................................................................ BAM!!!, the rear right tire blew up completely, there was no pop or pinpoint of the blow, it internaly combusted, or that is what I think. We got it replaced, finally after angry drama. we stayed at a Best Western that night and tried to swim, but only lasted for 10 minutes, because it began to strike heat lightning.



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5 Days Left

The Davis family Cross-country trip is near it's end. After visiting 22 states so far we are near the home stretch. In ways it would be nice to extend our vacation, but it's nice to get back home with our pets and city.We have been to the geysers of Yellowstone, the Badlands of Dakota, the big cities of California, and the middle of no where. This trip has opened my eyes to whats out there. There is so much to see and not nearly enought time to see it all.

Global Warming Theory/ Waterworld

The big issue commonly discussed these days is preventing global warming. In the book of Genesis, God promised Noah through a rainbow that he would never destroy the earth by flood ever again. If the polar ice caps were to melt, the world's land would be completely covered. [except possibly Mt. Everest which may stick out the top].
This possibility was portrayed in the movie Waterworld, which I watched the other day in the car. The main plot of the movie is that the ice caps melt, leaving no land and few survivors. The ones that do survive form pacts to search dry land together. This movie was appropriately rated PG-13 for: Violence, Brief nudity, occasional language, some sexuality, and depictions of blood. It was an interesting movie, but may not be appropriate for many viewers.

Hotel Stuff

After our stay with the Best Western Inn, it was awarded 3 1/2 stars. The next night We stayed at the one and only Eldorado Inn, it was descent, not the best [considering their wi-fi was shared with the truck stop next door]. It was old timey and interesting. The breakfast was pretty lame, but the overall star rating was 2 stars.
The next night was spent at the only Woodsman Country Lodge. It had no wi-fi no pool or spa, but it was in Oregon, so there is no signal anyway. How ever, the decor was amazing, the beds were made of stained wood and the coffee was Seattles Best. The overall rating was 2 1/2 stars. The Front Street Inn was the place we stayed at the next night. It was crummy it smelled bad and there was foe wi-fi, and no pool and spa. but there were okay things, the overall rating was 1 1/2 stars.

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MN, IA, SD, WY, MT, ID:

The title says it all... six states since my last blog. Minnesota and Iowa weren't must to write about [except for the Miss. River.] South Dakota Was Fun We stopped at a sculpture park, with insane birds that swooped down to attack. The next day we went to 1880's town which was all old time. We were on our way back, when one of the buildings had a mother cat with her newborn litter of kittens. I must say they were adorable. We saw Mt. Rushmore and the Crazy Horse mem. later that evening.
The next morning, we set out for Wyoming [Yellowstone] and arrived there late that night, late enough that Allison and I slept in the car, while mom mumbled all this banter about not being indigenous. The park, anyways, was amazing, the geysers the horse back riding and everything was incredible. Upon leaving this morning, we drove through the grand Teton mountains, and checked into a Best Western Inn which so far looks like a 3 and 1/2 star hotel to me maybe 4. Well good night all!

States Traveled: VA, WV, MD, PA, OH, IN, IL, WI, MN, IA, SD, WY, MT, and ID.

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