Grammi and P-Pa big adventures

Friday, March 23, 2012

Harrison's birthday

Harrison is now 4!

Levin and Aunt Lisa enjoying Harrison's special day.

Harrison and Sophia smiling beautifully.

Harrison had a food truck for his birthday party. Yummy grilled cheese.

Owen at 4! Grilled banana, marshmellow, chocolate desserts. Truck owners renaming it the Owen.

Harris is blowing out his four candles. While Grandma Pam, Mommy, Adeline and Sophia watch.

Addie and Sophia very seriously wating on piece of cake.

Harrison says it is good!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Road trip

Dave and Linda Geo caching. There is a tree growing out of that tower. Has since 1800's

Dave reached inside to retrieve a Geo Cache...screamed and said there is an animal here.

Linda finding a Geo Cache along the river

Linda found one!

Dave had to work to get down to this Geo Cache

Linda studying the clues for the Cache. It was cleverly hidden behind her.

Dave is off on his bike.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Grandchildren

Owen

Sophia

Harrison and army men

Ppa and Levin...wanting mommy

Two princesses...Scarlett and Adeline

Grammi and Levin

Beckett..he shoots...is it two points/??

Addie's Birthday

Adeline is now 3!

Adeline awaits her birthday candle as Scarlett, Beckett, Georgia, Grandma Elizabeth and Levin watch.

Does Levin get to drink from that bottle?

Birthday Girl Adeline

Addie and cousins enjoying her ice cream birthday party

Levin and Cousin Lena having playing time before the fight over toys.

Ppa holding Levin

Engineer Week Science Experiments

Chemical Engineering

Physical Chemistry – Conduct a nucleation reaction

Organic Chemistry – Dissolve polystyrene in acetone

Beckett with safety goggles ready for the experiments. Addie putting in a mento ready for the big explosion.

It is off!~

Civil Engineering

Simulate the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse

Beckett's demonstration

Electrical Engineering

Optics - build an electronic circuit to show how a resister and LED are wired to emit lights

Acoustics - build a circuit to play music with a whistle chip

Geology

Simulate the destructive force of a volcano

Mechanical Engineering

Build a Rube Goldberg device

Purdue Rube Goldberg

Meteorology

Simulate the destructive force of a tornado

Monday, February 13, 2012

Switzerland and Paris

Switzerland while riding the train

Lake Geneva

Vineyards along the railway

Dave enjoying the train ride

Linda sitting back and resting along the railway

View of the mountains along to Visp

Looking at the various path ways up the side

looking down into the valley

Looking upward...see the path way widing upward

Typical living areas in along the railway

Mountain top

View of other train going past.

The quaint town of Visp, Switzerland outside our hotel window

looking down the road from our hotel.

Yummy Swiss restaurant. All in German. Waitress spoke little English. She did panomine for us to figure out what the menu said.

For the Raclette, a half of the hard round local cheese is melted under a small table-top grill and the melted cheese is scraped onto your plate – it’s named after the French word racler, to scrape. It’s served with waxy boiled potatoes and cornichons (small pickled gherkins) and sometimes some air dried ham and salami. Dave is watching this chef make the Raclette.