Artifacts, Dinosaurs, NO ESCAPE....

So the other night i was innocently going to sleep... hoping for a dream about princesses... instead i got a rather interesting one. (i actually rather liked it...).....

One day, Kathryn led her archeology team (notice that i am so amazing that i have a team) on an expedition on a remote island. The boat used to get there was small, but must have been able to handle the ocean because that's how they got there. Kathryn took her first steps on the moist land in front of her.
Deserted, Undiscovered by modern man, and all there for her...... discovery? anyway, so she led her team, oogling at the amazing jungle around her.... giant butterflies and snakes and lizards.... thankfully no mosquitoes yet. There were crumbling walls, and lovely temples and huts.... vines covered most everything.

*digging, dusting, documenting*

THEN-there was a twig that broke. a rather large twig, it sounded more like a tree. all of them turned their heads towards the area the noise came from. there was a shadow lurking in the trees.... taller than a person for sure....
The shape was so unfamiliar to them that none of them recognized the silhouette before them. Then... the beast came forward into the light and let our a mighty ROAR!!! the whole team screamed at the top of their lungs but could not hear their own screams over the roar of the animal. it was a DINOSAUR!
nobody moved as they watched to see what the beast would do... it knew they were there, but almost waited for their next move....it decided on it's prey and lurched forward to bite off it's head! luckily kathryn ducked and rolled off to the side, her team was already running in two different groups, two different directions...she ran towards the closest and caught up to them but the dinosaur was right behind them.

*running, chasing, being eaten*

Finally, after being reunited with what was left of the other half of the team on a ledge that was quite sound, a head count was taken.... half of what came had been lost. there was a moment of silence. Plans were made of how to get off the island (to their boat) alive.
the plan began, and the small team worked it's way to safety. when the boat was in sight, checks were made to make sure that the area was clear enough to run on board. the area was clear, and it was starting to get dark, and crickets could be heard in the background. Kathryn led the team, but just before stepping on the boat they were ambushed! "who are you??" the two different groups demanded each other at the same time. apparently this military's goal was to leave Kathryn and her team on the island to die. but they didn't know that there were dinosaurs about. So they escorted Kathryn and her team back into the deadly jungle.

*more running, chasing, being eaten, gunfire (on the dinosaurs and kathryn's team)*

there were but three individuals left including Kathryn from the original team. and once again she found herself on that same ledge as before, seeking refuge along with what was left of the military that sought to destroy her team.
"look, we both want to get off this island, you have taken my ship, the only way off, and i do not see your ship anywhere around. You have a radio, please let me use it so that we may both survive."
so a deal was made. Kathryn called in the Army from her home country and they were airlifted out of the island.
as the helicoptor flew into the distance the evil military's leader decided to go back on the deal since they were now safe and pulled out his gun.....

Then i woke up. but i'm pretty sure my homeland's army whooped them. :)

the end
Felix II

little big planet addict

ok, so i wouldn't say i'm addicted to playing through all the levels, but it's the "create your own world" section that gets me...
i can create ALMOST anything in an ALMOST 3D sense and i like it.....
the current world i am working on is kind of funky... but the most complete world i've started thus far. i have learned how to use some gadgets and stuff... and i am going all out!
at first my goal was just to get something new and creative on the screen... after that then i got frustrated with falling and dying and getting stuck and then worried that if i go one way that i wouldn't get to go the other way later.
so i made a "kat proof" level, where you couldn't die, everything was soft and grabbable, no dangerous animals and no spikes of doom. if you fell, there was always a way back.

then shiloe tried it out and said it was cool but there needed to be more of a challenge....

so then i decided to try turning the sun into a flaming ball of .... well, flame. and inserted a crocodile, dragon, and spikes, and i even put in gas and fire.....
of course this all meant that i needed to insert save points... so i did the tutorial for that.. and now i have save points... but now i also need an ending.. and a purpose for the level... i needed to add points and challenges and objects/prizes you could get...

and so after all of this i am in the middle of creating a mini story-line and finding myself inserting traps of doom and creating death traps in the randomest of places and i think that my world has lost the "kat proof" and "good for kids" label.

great... but you'll have to come play it when it's finished!!!

Felix Ferdinand II

the difference between

Growing up, I know we had our bored moments... But I don't rememberbeing bored very often. Barbies and dolls, dressups and paper dolls, mario and toast, princesses in the back yard.... That's a lot of what I remember doing. Besides all the mischevious stuff! I sometimes wish curiousity and imagination would be more common place with children now-days. They like tv and video games but are still bored and never in the mood to do anything creative that doesn't include tv or video games.... I wish they could listen to music-any music- and see a picture in their head or feel something or want to do something and to express or interperate what they are seeing into something tangible. Something they can be proud of and say "look atwhat I made!" To their family and friends..... Instead it is now "I beat that level.... Now I'm on the next one." Every once in a while that is fun and refreshing but where is the fun in saying that?

potato bug

Recently at work there has been a little rolly polly that keeps ending up under my chair...I have to check because one time I sat in my chair and rolled it and then I heard a crunch..... I don't like that crunch sound... So yeah I have to get a sticky note and then scoop it up and drop it outside... Whether or not it is the same pill bug I have no idea... But it always ends up on it's back somehow...

hiking to the waterfalls with Rhett

Soatsome point this month shiloe, ourfriend Rhett and Idecided we wanted to hike the mountain in Cedar Hills just behind all of the houses. We drove to the top where they stopped any there was a friendly sign warning not to trespass....
SOoo we turned around discouraged but still determined to climb at least one mountain! We went up the canyom and I vaguely remembered how to et to a trail krysta had mentioned before-timpooneke (sp?) - so we made it there.but decided to find the julie andrews meadow first. On the way there was a sign for another trail-something to do withbears- from this point forward jokes were made and our imaginations ran wild with techniques and situations "if a bear...." Etc.
We found the meadow then turned around.... This was notnearly enough mountain conquered to satisfy our hiking thirst!-so we chose a trail that appeared to be timpooneke.
The mountainside was steep on either side of us, and the plant and flowers (and thus bees too) seemed to beovergrowing the trail!!! But we fought on!
Finally after conquering the urge to turn back several times, we made it!! To a dead end. The hikers in front of us (a nice family) were kind to warn us the the dead end "unless you want to go rock climbing" they said.... Well 3hett blazed the trail and we fell behind, realizing how out of shape we were. Butwe madeit, and sure enough Rhett waited for us at the top-perched under a waterfall (there were three large ones acrossthe curved wall). He then had us video tape his walking through it. We took pictures, rested, then headed back down the trail. :) now that is most everything you need to know about this adventure (minus the bees/bugs)
Felix ferdinand II

becoming a blogger

I always viewed blogging as a journal entry, and thought it was too creepy to have any stranger reading your blog....then I realized it doesn'thave to be so personal. BUT then it started to become a task and I didn't know what to say. I still don't! But iam figuring out how to put pictures and videos up which makes me feela ton more bloggy!!!! AND the bestpart about this entry is that I am writing it from my PHONE!!! I feel so awesome and bloggerish now! YAY

trashing the dress

so we didn't really trash the dress that bad, i lost some beads here and there, and got attacked occasionally by both beetles and bees...
towards the end we found a nice patch of grass that had a lot less bugs, mostly just flies which i can handle sometimes... thankfully not very many ants... i also just figured out how to post pictures and videos.. so yeah :D