A Picture of Me With My Grandpa

My Favorite Rock

Check Out These Petroglyphs!

Read more about petroglyphs here: petroglyphs wiki

Read this sign...

We read this sign and a few minutes later we ran into a rattlesnake!

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

Can you find me?

Mini-Golf

We were playing mini golf last night and we found this neat hole on a catus. Check out this link to learn more about Sagauro cacti. Sagauro Wiki

Desk Duck By The Pool

I don't have any math problems to share, but I wanted to let you know I'm in Arizona and I'm enjoying some time at the pool! I hope you guys are enjoying your springbreak!!

Help! Are These Pizzas Really "Smurf-Sized"?

Last night at dinner, Dane told the boys these pizzas were "Smurf-sized". You know how I feel about accurate proportional reasoning, so I had to disagree with him. These pizzas have a diameter of about 6 cm and that seemed like it was the wrong size to me. Dane argued that no one can really know because we don't know how tall the smurfs are in the cartoon. I argued that we have plenty of benchmarks to judge the height of the smurfs. After all, Gargamel isn't a giant and he has a normal sized cat. Can you help us settle our debate? Here is a link to some very important research: Smurf Wiki and Smurf.com

Mmm, donuts.

Golden Gate Fun

 The picture with the sign says that one of the giant cables is 24,500 tons. I only weigh 2 ounces. How many of my friends would it take to equal that?

There is some glare on the sign and it actually says that the main span is 4200 feet long. It also says that 80,000 miles of wire was used in total. How many times could that wire cross the bridge?

Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge was amazing! Luckily it wasn't very windy or I might have ended up in the bay.

Down by the Bay

So much to do!

I'm in class from 9-5 every day. We get an hour off for lunch and a couple of 10 minute breaks each day. But during this time we have to go through 1000 pages of material! That seems like a lot to me. How many pages do we need go through each hour? How many pages per minute or minutes per page is that?

If it is 11:41 AM right now, and we have finished 230 pages, are we going to finish on time? When should we expect to finish on Friday at our current pace?

Time to unwind

There's nothing I enjoy more after a long day of travel than a good word search. Hey, wait a minute. Huh?

More delays!

Our flight was originally scheduled to take off at 11:50 AM CDT. Unfortunately our departure was delayed by 35 minutes. As we neared San Francisco, there was too much traffic and what was supposed to be a 4.5 hour flight was extended by 30 minutes as we circled the airport. We finally got off the plane and now the train is delayed! I can't find a clock and I'm too exhausted to figure out what time it is, especially with the timezone change. Please help!

The Desk Duck goes to San Francisco

Dane is off to San Francisco for a business trip and I'm hidden in his suitcase! Follow me as I travel to the west coast. I hope I get to swim in the ocean!