Hello blogging friends! Let me begin this entry by saying that I am hoping that all of your summers are going excellent and that I hope you are having a great time doing whatever you are doing. My summer is going quite good and it got even better on Saturday of this past week.
On Saturday my family and I adventured down to Baltimore, Maryland. We did this to do something that my whole family enjoys doing, seeing that Baltimore Orioles play a little baseball. I know what you are thinking, the Orioles, they stink. But I have to admit that no matter how bad they are, they’re still my team and I will continue to root for them.
So, my family hopped in our car and made the almost three hour trip down to Baltimore. The ride down was pretty stress-free, except for when my sister (the navigator and direction reader) decided to make us go in a huge circle looking for this one exit that we shouldn’t have been looking for, but don’t worry, I got us back on track.
When we arrived the first thing we did was go and take a little adventure the Inner Harbor, that place is a hoot. It has entertainment and awesome scenery. Then at 7:05, it was game time. The Orioles were playing the Pittsburgh Pirates. The game was exciting and had a lot of thrills. Four of these thrills were homeruns, two for each team. And the best part the Orioles won, winning with a walk-off single. The final score was 8-7 and I have to admit I was as happy as can be.
This is something that I am hoping that my family will make a yearly tradition because it was a blast and there’s nothing better then a hotdog and a ballgame. Alright, catch you bloggers on the flipside of this information highway.

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Alright Blog maniacs, here was my big adventure for the week. So, my sister, who just recently graduated from Grad School with her masters in social work, wanted to take the civil service test. She signs up for it and guess where she has to go… that’s right, Lock Haven. Now, my sister’s been up there before but is not totally sure where she is going, so I lend my excellent directing ability to the cause.
We get up there with little to no reason to worry about anything going completely wrong. We found the place with little difficulty, thanks to yours truly. So we get to the place and she gets settled at the test-taking facility and then I realize it, I have no way of knowing how long it is going to take my sister to finish this test and I didn’t bring anything to do. This may sound like its going to turn out horrible, but it’s not because then I realized I’m at “THE HAVEN”, the most magical place on earth. So I got to relive some of my younger years (aka the past couple months of my life). I walked downtown waved to some people who I had never seen in my life and for the most part had an excellent time.
This is where my story takes an excellent turn, as I walking back to the testing facility because my sister had called to tell me that she was done and had totally rocked that test I saw something that caught my eye. No, it wasn’t an awesome pair of suspenders, it was a hundred dollar bill! I’m just kidding, it wasn’t a hundred dollar bill, it was a good friend of mine from the F YE program. I wasn’t expecting to see anyone that I knew there since classes were out, but I had totally forgotten about summer courses. So there I was talking to someone I wasn’t expecting to talk ot for another couple of months. Although I hadn’t managed to make it back up to the LHU campus, it was still an excellent trip. Alright, I guess I will see you folks later… so, until the next time I blog, you can go for a jog, or buy a dog or sit on a log…

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