Oh, Saturday

This is not an activity as much as a sequence of events that you can adapt, or pick and choose pieces.
I will still include the tutorials of course!

9:00 Made cinnamon roll dough (had to rise)---> Click here for the recipe! they were delicioso!

11:00 Made cinnamon rolls

12:00 Finally ate the cinnamon rolls (for lunch)



1:00 Decided we needed a WORKOUT so... (Here's where the tutorial starts)

You Will Need:

Sneakers

                                                                  Jungle Gym (we went to a school since it was  Saturday and no one was there)

Upper body strength

Balance

                         How to:

                   1.  The jungle gym is now your weight room.

                                    -monkey bars- harder than we remembered

                                    -balance beam

                                    -running up the slide

                                    -dips between parallel bars

                                    -pull ups
                                    -attempting to touch the rim of the basketball hoop (and failing miserably)

2:00 Still inspired to WORKOUT

You Will Need:

                                         Track(Local high school's worked nicely)

Stopwatch

Ambition

                          How to:

                   1.  Choose your distance (He [Garret] chose the 200m dash, I chose the 800m)

                   2.  Set an unreasonable goal (I chose 1:55 [which would have gotten me a gold medal in London this year])
                   3.  Take your mark
                   4. BANG! (Make sure the other person is timing)
                   5. Run your little legs off

                   6. Finish strong and be positive. (I ran it in 3:11)

                                  For example: Do Say- "I was only 1 minute and 16 seconds from winning in the olympics!" Don't Say- "My time is almost double what they run in the olympics." (no one has to know its only a 2 minute race)   

                   7.  Repeat all steps with each person involved (I am not at liberty to discuss my partner's time, but I will just say, you probably won't be seeing him in Rio in 2016)

                    8. Nurse the stitch in your side and nausea brought on by your lack of exercising

3:00 Somehow we were still feeling inspired to EXERCISE so...

You Will Need:

                             The most outdated dance workout video you can find ---> (Ours is called "Hip Hop Body Shop" from 1994 on VHS, found at a thrift store)

Floor Space

                       Themed Clothes (will be explained in depth below)

Swagger

                     1.  Start the dance workout

                     2.  Rewind every time a new move is introduced at least 4 times because it's complicated.

                     3.  Come to the realization that you are the whitest people on the planet.

                     4.  Realize thats actually just because of the clothes you are wearing.

                     5.  Find new clothes that fit the theme of the video (I was wearing high-waisted tights, a sports bra and a windbreaker, and Garret, his shorts and MY tank top.) unfortunately this was not documented.

                     6.  You should now have new found swagger.

                     7.  Finish video.
                     8.  Perform for your roommates.

5:00 Practiced all the swing dancing moves we know (click on each one for the tutorials we used)

         The Around the World

         The Double Dip             
         The Back Flip

   

6:00 Made dinner 

6:30 Ate dinner

7:00 Made Cardboard Beards 

You Will Need:

Beard Template

Scissors

Glue

Old Cardboard Boxes

Elastic

Stapler

Movies

Patience

Strong Fingers

                         
How to:
1.  Go the the link above titled "Beard Template"
2. Click on Project Templates to find the one titled "Webisode #4- Cardboard Beard" (He has a ton of other really fun projects you should try out too!)
3.  Open and Print the PDF

4. Watch this tutorial (I'm not going to give you the whole tutorial because a better one already exists); you can watch the video we did here:
                                   Beard Tutorial
5.  Put on your best flannel shirt and pose as lumberjacks. (This is a critical step. DO NOT skip.)

                                                      Here's the finished product:

I can't imagine that these won't come in handy all the time.

I don't want you to have a false sense of how long this will take so for a reference, we watched Shaun of the  Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Despicable Me while we were making our beards.

FUUUUN!!!!!

p.s. I need to get better at documenting these things so I have more pictures!  That will be my goal for future posts.