Happy People

Sorry I’m not post­ing as much, guys. I’ve been kinda avoid­ing my com­puter now. Between work and study­ing, I don’t have much free time, but when I do, I try to spend it with fam­ily. Been play­ing video games with the cousins and cards with the adults a lot.

Yes­ter­day, though, was my first non-​family out­ing in Min­nesota. I met up with the Min­nesota Metro APO Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion and we went mini-​golfing at Moose Moun­tain in the Mall of Amer­ica. It was actu­ally my first time to the Mall of Amer­ica since I’ve moved up here, and years since the last time I had vis­ited. I found out that Camp Snoopy, the amuse­ment park in the mid­dle of the mall, was gone, due to some licens­ing issues. They re-​themed every­thing into Nick­elodeon Uni­verse. Here’s a pic­ture of the park, as seen from the golf course. Peggy will enjoy because there’s a Pineap­ple House that you can actu­ally enter. For the rest of you, I point your atten­tion to the tracks of the roller­coaster in front of Spongebob’s house. I don’t know what the offi­cial name for it is, but I like to call it the “Brain-​Buster.” Note where the track goes in the upper right cor­ner of the picture.

The course was small, but chal­leng­ing. Maybe it had some­thing to do with the fact that I haven’t mini-​golfed in over ten years. But I got +20 or so over the course. The other alums were cool folks. Seems like they are a small group, but close con­sid­er­ing they only meet up once every month or two. I was the only Asian per­son there, and the youngest by far. I want to say the next youngest were older than me by about ten years, and Den­nis, the first per­son I met, pledged before I was born. Here is a pic­ture of us at Chevy’s after. Yes, we’re drink­ing with let­ters on. Oh, and we’re plan­ning on doing a ser­vice project together soon!

Any­way, I’m pick­ing up Smash in an hour. Don’t expect to hear from me much.

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