Saturday, March 22, 2008

O---klahoma


We just got back from our spring break trip to Oklahoma! Oklahoma?! Yes, quite the random place, but we had a lot of fun! We decided to drive as far straight south as we could this week and go golfing for the week. Oklahoma City was the final destination, and we golfed there, and at Enid. (We had never heard of it either). We don't have any pics of the golf, cuz we were golfing, but here are some pics of the Oklahoma City art museum. Here are some pics of the marvelous Dale Chihuly blown glass exhibit. The glass was beautiful, and to think each was hand blown is amazing. The statue above is over 3 stories, and somewhere between 1-2,000 pieces.


The pictures below are of pieces that were in the bottom of his swimming pool. They were covered by a clear flat bottom. It would feel like you were swimming in some surreal glass ocean. Very amazing.

The larger pieces in these photos are about 2 feet diameter.




On our way back home, through Kansas, this is what we ran into. We saw the smoke from a distance, and wondered if we would see the fire from close up. Here it is right next to the freeway. Apparently this is a normal occurrance as they burn the open ranges. There was a sign on the side of the road that said if there was lots of smoke, to not drive through, but park on the right side of the road....hmmm...probably wouldn't do that as there is fire right there.


We forgot to take pictures of ourselves on our trip, as we were golfing every day. So, here is Chris!
We also got to meet up with Jenny's cousins, Kimberly and Krista on the drive back. It was great to be able to catch up and chat a bit with them! Now we are back in the snow.....isn't it spring yet?

Saturday, March 8, 2008

The Big 3-0

Last Saturday, Jenny turned the big 3-0! So, what else to do than celebrate by doing something fantabulously fun! We hit up the Water Park of America in the afternoon with some friends, and tried out the body boarding thing, along with some fun waterslides. Thanks to Nicole for some water park pics...hope you don't mind that we brought them over here ;)

Here's Jenny catching a wave.

Nicole and Jenny.


Here's Jenny and the guys after coming down the family water slide. It was quite the crazy waterslide, but lots of fun! It was a great day!

Later on that night, we headed back to the Popp house for some games, guitar hero and AI Kareoke Revolution. Josh rocked it out on guitar hero, while both Johns were also great at the real thing!


Here are 2 of Jenny's roomies from Concordia and their spouses. It was great to see them. We were (and still are) excitedly awaiting little baby G any day now! Jen was hoping to share her birthday!
Nicole & Greg found a very fitting knitting shirt. ha!


Jenny was also way impressed with a bag that Amy made. Isn't it fun?! Beautiful job! Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate! It made turning 30 great fun!

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