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Its been a hectic past couple of weeks, but it’s not over yet. With the midterm rapidly approaching it’s crunch time. I’ve been pre-occupied with the Bamboo Buddy side of things, taking thousands of pictures and going through them for the new Bamboo Buddy Catalog that is in process, but now its time to get back on the BambooSK8 grind. This week is definitely going to be a struggle to get every point I need to stay comfortable in this internship and to pass the midterm, but I know it’ll all be worth it in the end. On a lighter note BambooSK8 has agreed to make me their photographer which I am super excited about and will be working with their videographer, Nate, and can’t wait to start taking pictures of the new BambooSK8 team.

In other news, Chelsea and I just got back from one of the most interesting mornings ever. We made our way down to KUSI channel 9 news to do a segment for the Garden and Home fest at 7:00AM this morning to get there to meet one of the most interesting characters ever, Shamroc (see below), and if his name wasn’t awesome enough…you just need to meet him to understand. Anyway, he had given us directions to go back around to the front to get Chelseas car to unload the tiki bar, little did we know another obstacle would come our way.. We had gotten inside the gate by pushing a button and them buzzing us in, but on the way out no button was present, so me and chelsea were running and jumping around in front of the gate hoping to hit a sensor to open the gate for us, but when that didn’t work Chelsea decided to use her super human strength to open the gate, of course that failed too, so I resulted to asking the little landscaper guy to push the button on his side to let us out, for him to just let us know we are dumbasses and there was a button right in front of our faces. SO I really hope that everyone in the studio was watching us through a security camera laughing at us making fools of ourselves.  Aaaaanyway just as I thought things couldn’t get any better in walks “Sally Smarty-Plants” and her goat “melancholy Child” or Melly for short. (See picture below.) Anyway, after finally setting up for the segment, and almost watching The Red Door Chef burn down our tiki bar, things were rolling. Watching Sally Smarty Plants and Melly in action was priceless, especially when Melly began to eat the news casters script… After the segment was over we packed up and set off on another journey to pick up some Bamboo Boards we had just gotten printed.. Seems simple, right? Well… Leave it to us to make it a fiasco. We stopped at the La Jolla mall first to see if we could get some food, but apparently no food court is open at 9:30, and malls get flooded with orange-skinned cougars wearing bright pink lipstick.. Once we finally found our way to the warehouse, following a very well thought out diagram drawn for us (see below),  of course it was time to make an ass out of ourselves again by walking into the wrong warehouse and asking for “Frank.” The two guys that were in there decided that they were going to play Frank for the day and finally after 5 minutes decided to tell us they had no idea who Frank was and we were in the wrong place. So we walked out to see the real Frank pull up, and boy was he another character to add to our day, out walked a little chinese man in kaki parachute pants. Nice man, but we could not understand a word he was saying! So as me and Chelsea took a minute to compose ourselves and go outside and call someone, each hoping the other got some of what he had said, luckily Geoff C. knew what was up. So we took the boards and said farewell to Frank and moved on to go get some food, can’t go wrong with that. We had found a nice place that served Acai bowls which we were craving, but that turned into another expedition in itself. After driving in and out of warehouses we finally realized that Acai Roots was actually another warehouse we gave up and headed back to BambooSK8. On the way home I had my first experience at The Yellow Deli, I don’t really know what to say about that place other than I felt like I was in an Amish/medieval barn for lunch, but they had some pretty cool bathroom signs ( see below). After that we finally made it back to unload the car and get some work done.

This is Shamroc and Sally Smarty Plants…

The awesome Map we got to follow..

And Here are a few other pictures of the event.