Homecoming

Once every year every High School in the country have their homecoming. For those of you who don't know what this is, (which might be a lot of you ;)) its basicly a celebration at the end of the football season. Friday evening, the football team play their homecoming-game, which has great prestige. On our game there were about 2500 people in the stands, which is equal to more than 80% of Deltas population. Before the game, each player gets introduced with its parents.

The homecoming dance is held the evening after the game. This is a little formal, so you are expected to dress up. Before the dance, the homecoming king/queen (which has been voted by the students weeks in advance) is driven around the town and to the dance in a very fancy convertible, before beeing escorted to the dance.

That was the forman part. Personally I had a great time, and here is what I did on this saturday in the middle of October:

2,5 hours before the dance, me and my family + Nathan (designated photographer) went to a beautiful place out in the woods called Oak Valley for some lovley family pictures. (One of the reasons were constant spamming in request of a family picture from my REAL mom) Later on, a lot of my friends showed up as well for some group pictures as well. I got a lot of great pics, and here are some of them:

starting from the back: Richard, Bowen, Brooklyn, Kimberlee
front: Blake, me and Brailee

Blake and I

This is my date for the evening, Haley.

from the back: me, Blake, Derek

In front, starting left: Julie, Kayla and Elizabeth

After pictures, a group of us 'kids' went to a fancy resturant for a meal. It was a very nice place, the food was very good, but it was not up to my standards when it comes to food. Not that my standards are high or anything special, I just request one thing. Enough food. After paying 15 dollars on what I thought were a beef steak, I got a couple of tiny pices of cutted meat. The "beef steak" were no bigger than half my hand in full size. Still starving, we drove on to the dance. I don't have any pics from the actuall dance, because I turned in my camera, as I didn't boughter dancing with it in my pocket. It was as you can imagine - a DJ plaing some songs, keeping the party goin', 50*C and almost no air, so we had to go outside every 15 min not to die from a heathstroke. After 5 hours in the party-sauna, we were tired to death, so next stop home. You might think now was the time to sleep, but your wrong! With the beat still beating in my head I had no choise but to play some lovely guitar hero. And some turned in to a lot. Tired as I was I did not have the power to lay down the guitar, so I ended up playing most of the night before my body just shut down. A perfect ending to a beautiful day.

Welcome to Cedar point - Roller Coaster capital of the world

10.04.08 is a day to remember for all eternity. This shiny saturday in early October we went to Cedar point, home of the greaters Roller Coaster rides in the world. Here you can find 18 different rides, and a bounch of other stuff to get your bloodpresure rising. I don't know what else to write - IT WAS AWESOME!!!







This is the millenium force. With its first drop of 305 feet (100 meters), and speeds up to 95 mph (160 km/t) this is one of the talles and fastets rides in the world.







Here is a link to this ride: http://www.cedarpoint.com/_includes/flash/media_player_popup.cfm?videoID=11240&videoWidth=320







The Dragster - One of the biggest badboys of man-made thrill there is. Stretching 420 feet (140 meter) above the ground, accelerating from 0-126 mph (200 km/t) in less then 3 seconds, this is without doubt the most thrill roller coaster I've sat down on.





















Mean Streak is on of the tallest and fastest wooden coasters in the universe. It has a top speed of 105 km/t, and a 60 meter long vertical drop. Along with the Millenium force, this was my favorite ride.






Here is a link to this ride: http://www.cedarpoint.com/_includes/flash/media_player_popup.cfm?videoID=13411&videoWidth=320





Out of the 18 rides there, I got to ride 10 of them, which is very good, considering the average waiting time were supposed to be about 1 hour+ per ride and I were there for a total of 9 hours. In addition to the 10 roller coasters I did a bounch of other fun stuff too. Here are some pictures from Cedar Point.















Though this rotating sledgehammer was a "smooth-ride" - it was awesome!

The Power Tower - Launches you 300 feet (100 meter) up in the air and then you have 4 seconds of free fall, neat ;)

After 1 hour in line, you get bored and tired. Guess if our facial expression changed after the ride..









A Great day at Cedar Point - Recommanded to everyone with a thrill seeking heart!