Hey, yesterday was the 4th of July, and it was the funnest day yet. Not really because we got up at 5am so we could stake out a park for a mosaic picnic (big event with about 350 people)….

Look, it’s me a 6am…all patriotic…
It wasn’t even because the 4th of july was actually a lot of fun…or because the picnic was a great success…
It was because of this:

The Transformers tower….of DOOM.
After the madness of the 4th of July picnic, the organising, the feeding, the general sillyness that resulted we had the opportunity to watch the 4th of July fireworks from

The Transformers tower of DOOM.
I know.
Scary.
The transformers tower is actually an apartment building that my friend Austin is working on rebuilding. It’s 20 stories high and is the highest tower in hollywood; and it’s plastered in 20 storey high posters advertising the transformers movie. It’s not even near finished yet (lacking in the wall department for one thing)…so it was a bit of an adventure. To be honest, travelling in a wooden elevator was an experience.

This is the wooden elevator. It’s made of wood. Twenty stories in woody, the elevator, is like nothing else. Except, maybe, 20 stories in a wooden elevator.
Then we had to climb the elevator of…ah…doom?…


View from the top.





Nate, Anthony (our coach) Xander (the cutest kid in the world) and me.
Catch you up!