Ok here is the story.  Adam Allred, his brother Paul and I went scuba diving at a place called The Toilet Bowl.  After climbing over these cool jagged lava rocks we dropped into the water and made our decent down to about 130 feet where we saw all kinds of cool underwater life; like poisonous sea snakes.  When I checked my air I had about 1000 psi left and when I checked again a few moments later it was about 200 psi.  

     At the depths that we were diving, your suppose to start your ascent at about 500 psi.  Immediately I motioned to paul to surface with me.  On the way up each breath began to be harder and harder to breath until I felt like I was sucking on a vacuum.  At that point I jumped on to Paul's spare regulator.  That provided me with air for a little bit till it started malfunctioning and not giving me the air I needed.  

     By this time Adam had caught up to Paul and I to let us know that we were surfacing at a dangerously fast pace and to slow down.  I didn't care about ascending at a dangerously fast pace, I needed air and would rather deal with the damaging effects of decompression sickness and the bends than drown in the ocean off the coast of Okinawa, so i grabbed Adams spare regulator which surprisingly was malfunctioning as well.  Being about 50 ft still below the surface my already unsafe ascent turned into a panicked race to the surface.

     Upon surfacing with snot all over my face from the experience, it was the best feeling to breath air again and know that I was alive.  Once on land we found a nearby picnic table to eat some lunch and try to recover from the nitrogen poisoning that we were all suffering from.  

     After about an hour of resting we walked about 50 yards to another beautiful dive spot called Horseshoe to begin our second dive of the day.  On our decent and during most of our second dive we could all clearly feel that we were still loopy from the nitrogen in our system from the old Toilet Bowl.  

     Me and some of my girls hanging out at Peace Prayer Park at the South tip of Okinawa.   Peace Prayer Park is basically a museum of when the Americans stormed Okinawa and all the carnage that took place.  

Happy Halloween!!!  This is me and one of the professors in my Clinical Laboratory Science program.  I hope everyone knows who Beaker is.  

I walked into one of my classes late as usual and when I sat down everyone started laughing at me cause they couldn't get over how funny I looked.  They couldn't stop laughing so the teacher cancelled class.  I guess that is what happens when I wear a hat all semester except on halloween.  I don't know if they were laughing at me cause I was late or cause they saw the bald spot in the back of my head for the first time and thought that was funny.  

Cabin Fever

While the boys were out fishing I was out hunting; hunting for photo of the year.  Here is one of the photo's that I took of the ground about twenty yards from the ocean.  Check out how the ground which is actually clay is so unique.  I was able to submerge one of the stepping stones quite deep and still had room for improvement.  The sound as I walked on the clay resembled the sound of a horse walking across a bridge with wooden planks for the decking.  

My little buddy.   Fishing his little heart out.

Mexican Chica's

I just recently went on a 7 day cruise to Mexico with Allison over Halloween on The Golden Princess, a 109,000 ton ship that sails from Los Angeles down the Mexican Riviera and back. Eclipse Marketing, the company that we worked for over the summer, took us because of the sucessful summer we had. Cruises are so nice for people like me cause they force me to relax. Cause when I'm on vacation on land I feel pressure to see and do as much as I can with the time that I have. However on a cruise you get to utilize travel time. We would go to comedy shows in the massive stadium theater on board, play shuffle board on the deck of our ship that is longer than a football feild, play ping pong on one of the 16 available decks, or lay out with some of the other 2600 available passengers all while listening to live music and being waited on by several of the 1100 crew members, all in perfect 80 degree weather while traveling from city to city, it was great.

I took my camera and Ali took hers but we never busted em out once. My excuse was that I had already been on that cruise-Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas-before, so there was nothin new to take pictures of. However last time I was in Puerto Vallarta I went scuba diving and this time I went up into the Jungles of Mexico where the Preditor was filmed and cliff jumped in to the river and got eaten alive by invisible bugs that left sores and welts all over my back and arms for weeks. I don't know why Ali never took any pictures.

Yesterday I got back from Texas. I flew down there for the weekend to scope out an area for next Summer. I have gotten use to being the minority in Detroit and Atlanta where African Americans are the majority but in South Texas I wasn't use to being the minority in an area where the majority were hispanic. But I guess thats to be expected when your 10 minutes away from the Mexico border. Wow is real estate cheap down there! For the same price as in Utah you get about twice as much house down there near the Mexico border.

Alcatraz

Alkey. But if you wanna get technical, go ahead, and you can call it Alcatraz




The Beautiful San Francisco Bay area view from Alkey

San Fransisco

Thats me kickin it with the GGB