Sunday, January 22, 2006
i have seen a marvelous thing under the sun
Has anyone ever heard of a jump roping team? I know I hadn’t, but I saw one perform today at an ACU basketball game. I mean, I know Texas certainly has its own color, *cough cough* - don’t hate me Katie! - but I thought they just roped cows and horse thieves. So I was kind of ready for something dull or a little obtuse when the Sweetwater Jump Roping Team was announced at halftime. Maybe a little double-dutch or that thing you do when you cross your arms (I’m sure there’s a technical word for it) and jump were the kind of things I was expecting. These kids, though, walked into Moody Coliseum and started counting off a whole routine. They jumped rope while standing and turning around and sitting on the ground. They even did bell hops while jumping rope! Bell hops! I have a hard time doing those without a jump rope. I was thoroughly amazed. I sometimes think standing ovations are handed out too readily nowadays, but I definitely thought this merited the energy it took me to stand. In the words of my wonderful roommate, “They just rocked my world. I’ll never be the same again.”
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A bell hop, Nathan Fry (not overcome by emotion, by the way, but instead rather stern), besides being that guy on Seasame Street that had to run up all those flights of stairs in his hotel counting the floors as he went only to find out that he wasn't really needed at the end of it all...sad really... is when a person jumps and clicks his or her heals together. Now, wasn't that worth it?
holy cow, my sister is freaking amazing! She gets to write about all of these cool things. My only cool stories of late have to do with a stange man pulling me over to his little booth as I walked through the mall with my fiance, old men who think they are really cool, and thinking of t-shirt designs for my mission team so we can get money. (anyone want to help a poor girl and her team wanting to talk about God in New Zealand? I'll give you a free place to stay if we get there and you want to come visit.) Thanks for the laughs though Laur, you truely are amazing. Love you! (You too Paige.)
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