iPhone Pictures

About a year ago, Tom and I decided to get rid of our rotary-dial "mobile" phones and upgrade to the clean, slick iPhone. While we do get the occasional dropped call and have to turn off our 3G service at home in order to get a stronger signal, they've been mostly fantastic. One thing that is fun is that we always have a camera at our disposal, so we end up taking more random pictures and videos than we used to. I downloaded all of my pictures yesterday and had a fun time looking through them and remembering when they were taken. Thought I'd share a few with you all.
1) iPhone photo #1! Speaks for itself, I think. Still my screen saver.

2) Probably the most dangerous Physics doohickey I have built - an electric hot dog / pickle cooker. It is essentially like plugging the pickle directly into the wall. Did you know that pickles glow bright yellow whilst being electrocuted?


3) My pop holding a balloon. This is from last week - Ebel family reunion out here in the bay area.

4) 4th of July cupcake platter. We had an epic weekend with a bunch of our friends from out here. We may be in our thirties, but we can party like we are 28!


5) Fantastic seats at a Giants game with Adam and Ashley.


6) Banjo being his usual slothful, immodest self. Hahaha.
7) The two of us at a swanky symposium reception for science teachers at the Cal Academy of Sciences. The martinis were swizzled with glow sticks, soup was served in test tubes, and there was a live penguin display behind the bar. Yep, being a teacher is quite the extravagant lifestyle.
8) My student teacher, Ryan, holding up a massive solar balloon we made out of trashbags after school one day.
9) Swing batter! Tom's softball team wins the league championship!


10) Fresh hops beer festival in Portland. We're looking forward to more events like these...

11) Curling with the Dartmouth Alumni of Silicon Valley. Harder than it looks...

And that's it for now. Maybe I'll download some from Tom's camera later on and add to the story. Cheerio!