Halloween

So I said I was trying to catch up on old events....so well here are some pics from Halloween. In the pics, you will see some pumpkin carving, pictures of my sweet pumpkin with the lights out and candles lit, our adventures at Eastern State Penitentiary (one of the largest haunted houses and one of the best in the country), and a upside down scarecrow I made. All in all it was a nice week or so. The Haunted House was really only fantastic because Sara kept getting spooked by just about everything so it was fun to laugh. I do have to admit I was given a good solid scare a few times myself. The prison is huge and you actually get to go in old parts of it and see where the prisoners lived. Kind of spooky....Al Capone was actually a prisoner there once....

Red Bull Art of Can

We went to this really neat art exhibit about a month ago in Philly. Red Bull put on a contest for any interested artist in which they had to make a piece of art solely out of Red Bull cans - great for advertising right? Anyway, not all the pieces were made solely from Red Bull cans but the exhibit was still very neat. They allowed us to take photos so I managed to take pictures of every piece of art until the camera died. Check out the slide show below. My favorite was the play on Sistine chapel...or at least part of it.

You will also notice some random pictures of tape on a wall. I took these pictures because the exhibit was in an old MTV Real World house, so there were still some leftover pieces of Real World being there. You could even use the bathroom they used if you felt so inclined. It was neat to be there but the exhibit was what really drew me in :)

Lasallian Volunteers Marathon Video

A friend of the Lasallian Volunteers put together this video of the marathon. It is nicely done with pictures and audio. I make a decent amount of cameos. Take a look....some of my friends from Loyola made it into the video as well. If you know them you will recognize Alex, Jackie, Allie, Rachel, and Maggie. Maggie probably gets the award for most pictures...that is probably because she scarified herself to run 9 miles with me during awful heat just so I could make it....thanks Maggie.

Here is the link

http://www.lasallianvolunteers.org/news_1007_marathon_video.asp

B. More Night on the Town

Well like I said I haven't been doing well at posting on this blog...so I am going to try and catch up with past events and let you all know what I have been up to. The following slide show of pictures is from a night in mid-October. The Brothers had an event honoring a Brother for his many years of service and it was also used as a fund raiser for one of our Lasallian schools, Lasalle Academy where Sara and Denis work. Some of the pictures are from the fundraiser and others are from when we went out afterwards to celebrate Sara's birthday. Most of the people in the pics are current or former volunteers. All in all it was a great night. Enjoy....

A Little of What I'm Doing

So I have been pretty busy lately....trust me there will be more coming in terms of this blog. The last couple of weeks have been jam packed with all sorts of events, trips, haunted prisons and other things that have been taking up my time. While you are waiting for these wonderfully entertaining blogs to come your way, I thought I would let you explore some of the work I have been doing with the volunteers. Part of my volunteer position includes working at the Christian Brothers Spiritual Center with our Young Adult Program. I have been doing a lot of the "technology" aspects of what we do....this is comical to me because sometimes I don't have a clue as to what I am doing but I learn as I go.

One of my "learn as I go" experiences was building a website. I finished it a little while ago and I think I worked out the initial kinks....enjoy perusing and learning a little more about what I do here.

http://thebrothersplace.org/