my first post. oh boy

welcome to my blog! i didn't really think that i would ever start a blog but i did...

today was a fairly interesting day i guess. i am currently in my hometown of fargo where there is a massive flood still going on. my sister and i went out for lunch with my brother at applebees. this is where i actually asked them about me starting a blog and jon was quite quick to say that i should (i guess he thinks i'm interesting). nuff said.

after lunch, d and i go around to check out the red river (of the north) and see how high the water is. we start off by heading east down 19th ave n towards elephant park. we come up to elm street where i'm thinking i'm going to turn right and head towards el zagal. well i come to the stop sign, stop, and start turning right and i finally look that way and see nothing but a roadblock sign and earthen dam! scratch that idea (d just looks at me funny and starts laughing... obviously she knew i couldn't turn there and decides not to tell me). so we decide (well i guess i decide since i'm driving) that we'll head up north to edgewood. we pull up to the fork at the end of elm street and stop cause we can't go anywhere else as there's earthen damns going both ways. we get and look around and i see that all 2nd, 3rd, and 4th holes are completely underwater. nothing that doesn't really surprise as edgewood floods every year. d suggests we head north up broadway next to the sanitation plant. we get up there and broadway also has an earthen dam on it but there's enough room for us to keep going north. shortly after we are stopped by another secondary earthen dam. we take a right into royal oaks and come to a culdesac and stop. we get out to look around at the flood and walk through the mud up to the sandbags (d informs me we can't walk on the sandbags). The river is actually down quite a bit since it crested. d and i share our thoughts on solutions for preventing future floods in fargo (which would be one year from now). we walk away from the sandbag dike and i'm little annoyed cause my white shoes get all muddy and then i look at danielle and she's wearing uggs(?) and she gets mud all over them. awesome.

next we decide to go check out el zagal which was my first destination. we're on the southwest side of el zagal (which is off 14th or 15th ave n) where we get out to look at some more of the flood. d starts heading towards the dike that's been built around the little 9 hole golf course. well i've learned my lesson from earlier and decide i don't want to get as close this time cause i don't want to get my shoes more dirty. i turn around and head for a cement platform that's connected to a building. right after i turn around d kinda let's out a slight cry/laugh. i turn around to see that she's tried coming back as well. she was very unsuccessful becuase as she turn and lifts her left foot, her boot and sock both stay in the mud and she has to step with her bare foot into the mud. i turn around and just start laughing at her but i also hurry to help (i'm a nice brother duh!) d continues to just stand there and laugh. i guess she just wanted to stand there in the mud cause she loves being outside so much! (which she actually really hates if there's anyone that reads this that doesn't know my sister) but i will tell you this my sister was a go getter when they started calling for volunteer sandbaggers. so she will def get herself dirty when needed! (and thanks to all those volunteers who helped saved this city from almost certain complete disaster). anywho... back to the story. i help d get back to the dry parking lot and two people see us there and one of them starts laughing at, well, with danielle. he starts going on about how she's not the only one to do that and won't be the last.. blah blah blah... well instinctively i pull out my phone and continue to twitpic the situation which was hilarious. i happen to have a towel in my trunk so d can wipe her foot off. we go home and tell the story to my dad. we're sitting in the living for 40 min and d still hasn't gone and cleaned off her foot! she says "i want to wait till mom gets home to show her." all the while she got dirt falling from her foot and making a mess on my parents rug. ahhhh my sister... good times... (later i due believe that my mom ended up being the one that cleaned that up)..

couple hours later, my sister and my mom go to my grandmother's apartment to visit her. my dad and i decide to go to the Sports Zone and watch the masters in HD. we have a couple of beers and eat probably four bowls of popcorn (my family loves loves loves popcorn). my sister calls to tell me that she's coming to drop mom off here and pick me up so we can go to o'kellys. fridays at o'kellys are fun cause they have free wings and cheap drinks. well d had a different agenda on her mind that night...

we were hoping to make it a somewhat erdmann kids' family tradition. jon ended up having other plans but d still wanted to go so she could get sushi. i'm a fairly picky eater but d is insistent that i try some sushi. we order our drinks and d orders..... well i don't know what it was but it was two sushi rolls i think and some eat-your-mommy. its actually called edamame but i thought eat-your-mommy was a better and more creative name so that's what i'll continue to call it. she has me try the eat-your-mommy first which are like soy beans or something wrapped in a leaf. they are steamed or something (they came out hot) and i wasn't a fan. the sushi comes out next, but before that comes out, d teaches me how to use chop sticks. i really do think i was a natural. the first roll look like some odd cheese on top of white rice. d tells me to put soy sauce in my little plate/cup/bowl thingy. next she says grab a piece of sushi1 (i'm just calling the two sushi rolls sushi1 and sushi2, cause i have no idea what they were) and dip it in the soy sauce. the piece i had went for a swim instead of a dip. here i go! my first try at sushi. i start towards putting it in my mouth and then stop, then start again, then stop... this happens for a while and my sister starts laughing cause i'm quite nervous that i'm going to be spitting this right away. finally i eat it and....... I HATE IT!

sushi1 = not good

next i try sushi2 which has some crunchiness to it. i don't give it any soy sauce and just go for it. i take a fairly large piece and just eat it as fast as i can and..... not very good. it was definitely better than sushi1 but still i'm never going to have sushi again.

sushi2 = better than sushi1, but still not good

d finishes up eating and we notice that its 7 and we need to roll cause we're meeting jon and lindsay for a movie at 7:25. d gets a to go box for sushi1 which she ends up leaving at the sushi bar. good work. we roll out and head to century 10 to watch i love you man. great movie. thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend people to see it.

after the movie we talk about going to billiards to play some pool and get some drinks. well we end up being a man short so d and i decide to go to the hodo. the hodo was a great time. we ran into my brothers friends joe riley, charpie, and a couple others. we also run into one of my sisters classmates from high school. she also happened to be the older sister of one my best friends growing up. we talk to her for awhile and she texts michael (my best friend growing up) and he comes out with his girlfriend and we get caught up. we closed down the hodo and start to head home. d drops off joe and then i think she came up with the grand plan of going for perkins. delicious (or zaz as she would say). so charpie, d, and i go to the perkins in moorhead for some 3:30 am food. awesome. after we go home. when we finally arrive home i head up stairs to take my contacts out and go to bed. but i can't find my contact case! i went from my room to the bathroom and back again like 5 times and still can't find it! frick... so i go to my sister and ask if she knows where it was and she gives me an extra she had. thanks d.

well that's all for my first post. its really long but i had such a fun day that i wanted share everything with you guys. also i decided that i don't want to proof read this cause it's too long and well i just don't want to... haha