Sunday, April 8, 2007

Easter @ The Orchard


Wow!, What a weekend! First of all Happy easter to everyone!  2nd Thanks for the pic scott I just kinda stole it off your blog..lol..This weekend was a blast, we dropped 10,000 eggs at The Orchard by helicopter! One word...AMAZING...we departed from the schaumburg airport around 6:10-6:15 and we were headed toward the orchard to drop 10,000 eggs for the 1000+ people waiting for them. From the minute we departed my adrenaline was pumpin, let me tell you..I was so excited to do this for all the Children...just a great feeling.  As we approached the Orchard, we came into a bit of trouble, they only gave us so much space to drop the eggs, and that day, the wind was blowin' like crazy. The pilot also noticed that there were power lines along the west side of the 3 drop zones. He told me he would have to drop me off at the aurora airport and drop the eggs and come back to get me, I was a little disapointed, and I felt like I was letting everyone down at church because they wanted the footage of them dropping the eggs from the helicopter. Anyway...they came to pick me up and did a circle around the orchard to get a decent arial view..so I got what I could get. I still had a blast in the helicopter, that was my 2nd helicopter ride my whole life and it was awesome. So, I told you about my easter, how was yours??

Later.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

8 core MacPro


Well,I thought I would test out aurora's "Metro-Fi" so I brought along my computer while waiting for my mom at the train station, I think her train just came in, but not sure,so i was looking at the apple website today and man I want one of these, but I don't have 25 hundred to shell out for one...and thats just the standard of what it comes with, the one I configured was a little over 10 G's..yea...it was a beast...Well this coming weekend Dan Andersen asked me to fly in a helicopter for the Orchard to videotape the egg drop from above while he does it on the ground, I'm really excited to do it! I can't wait! well thats it for now..

-Anthony