Loma Linda Sweatshirts!

As president of my class, I thought we needed to come up with a good fundraiser for our Boards Bash party at the end the year as well as for other social events and community projects. My Vice, Kat, brainstormed the idea of selling school sweatshirts. As we discussed it, this turned out to be a particularly good idea for 2 major reasons: 1) The University store does not sell any sweatshirts that say "School of Medicine" or the like, they just say "University" and 2) Their sweatshirts cost between $40-$50 greenbacks. Our class however is selling these fashionable sweatshirts for only $27! What a deal. Here are the finished products.

Here's the Navy version w/ white print. Navy always looks good. We even had the officers from Annapolis ordering from this line.

This is the sexy Charcoal version w/ white print. It looks good on both guys and girls. I bought this one myself.

Finally, this is the hip Chololate Brown version w/ light blue print. I bought this one as well so that I would be on pace with fashion. This sweatshirt can be worn by both sexes, but is particularly popular with the women.

Sweatshirt models: Joe Petit (Navy) and Bob Renck (Charcoal and Chocolate Brown)
Sweatshirt design by: Adam Farnsworth

The End of Things...My Last Free Summer

Sometimes you just know when a part of your life as you it know will never be the same again. I'm talking about summer vacation. Tonight is the last night of my last summer vacation ever. I'm going to miss the hell out of 'em, I'll say that. And I also don't mind saying that my summer kicked some serious tail (pardon the language), and I don't mind saying it.

(A tail kicking good time)

The Grand Finale to my summer was Yosemite and Hiking Mt. Whitney with my Pops.

The Yosemite troops: Katattack, Joe, Josh, Kevin

The Half-Dome hike is nothing short of sensational. One of the most beautiful hikes in the world. The hike is 17 miles round trip.

Then the next week I climbed Mt. Whitney with my Dad, Jon, and Emily (4:30 am). Mt. Whitney is the tallest mountain in the lower 48. Round trip hike: 22 miles.

Emily is checking out the 97 switchbacks leading to the ridge crest and Dad thinking it would probably only take him 97 seconds if he were hiking alone.

Here's Dad "summiting" Whitney. One slip and he would plumet in free fall thousands of feet to his death. This guy is a rock and never tires.

The Top! 14,497.8 feet. 5 hours later I will vomit all over the trail.

The next day my Dad and I drove up to Yosemite and took the afternoon to free-climb El Capitan. 3,000 vertical feet of sheer granite. Don't believe me? Just ask my Mom, she'll tell you.

Still don't believe me? Here is hard photo evidence of us climbing a chimney crack about 2,ooo feet up. Besides, Captain Kirk free climbed it in Star Trek V, so it is doable.

Next we went to the land of the giants, Sequoia National Park, where they have some fatty trees.

Sequoia Facts: These fatties can tip the scales at 2.7 million lbs., grow nearly 300 ft. tall with branches up to 8 ft. thick, and live over 3,000 years!! We climbed these suckers too.

Well that was the end of my final free summer of all time until heaven. When I go to bed tonight they will cease to exist.

Now I remember the good times. I look forward to good times to be had. I get ready to meet the challenges ahead. I long to do it all over again.

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