Happy MTU homecoming to you all! This weekend we had our homecoming games in most of the sports Tech participates in. I’m not so much a fan of the sports, but there are all kinds of hobo-themed events and activities that I enjoy. Most of them are rather crazy, there’s a baked bean eating contest, a 5 legged sac race, a shopping cart race, etc. My favorite of them all is the cardboard boat race. We participated as a hall when the even was first added in 2005, but we were all too busy last year to make a boat. It’s fun to go out there and watch teams of 8+ people sink in the water.<\/p>\n
This year it was decided for sure we’d make a boat, so all this summer I was collecting cardboard for it. We put it together over 2 days (we really<\/strong> should’ve started earlier) and it was quite a feat of engineering and craftsmanship given our small time window. We overcame quite a few problems actually getting the thing out of our apartment and managed to weaken the boat quite a lot in the process. I did sail in it this year, and the much weakened boat floated us out on the portage and back again. We had a good time building and rowing in the boat.<\/p>\n My Grandma and Grandpa were also up visiting this weekend. We went out to the Lake of the Clouds in the Porcupine Mountains state park. It was a lot of fun, and the view from on top was amazing. I wish I had taken a camera. This post seems to ramble on quite a bit, but I wanted to get something up and I’m too tired to fix it. Have yourself a happy Columbus day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy MTU homecoming to you all! This weekend we had our homecoming games in most of the sports Tech participates in. I’m not so much a fan of the sports, but there are all kinds of hobo-themed events and activities that I enjoy. Most of them are rather crazy, there’s a baked bean eating contest, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}