Happy Easter!

We had a party here Holy Saturday, a going away party for probably the closest friend I have had so far. There were almost 40 people here, and it was a very good time. I didn't think to take pictures of the crowd during the party, but I did get a shot of all of the shoes in the entryway and out the door:


I just joined the Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) club, so every Wednesday, I will be getting new flowers to arrange and we will have fresh flowers in the house weekly. It's a good deal, and is a really cool skill to have, so I'm very excited about it. As I am a first year student, I get the first year student flowers, and have to arrange them in a very, very systematic way, which is good for me. Technically oriented flower arranging based on set angles, where each piece is some fraction of the next, based off of the size of the vase you're using? I can do that. This week, we had a couple of pink carnations, some yellow fresias, two branches, and a fern, very festive in a spring and Easter way. It's looking a little beat up at this point, from carrying it home and resetting it here after arranging it at school, but the flowers are more open:


I'm inordinately proud of myself for this. I keep telling Lee to go look at the flowers, another one has bloomed, or another leaf has popped out on the branches, but he's not as awestruck by them. Arranging flowers is just one of those things that I tend to put in the "I can't do it" category because it's just too artistic and not structured enough - but I did it! And it ain't half bad, if I do say so myself.