Side Note

Amelia saw the Chevy Chase youth diving practice (5-9 year olds) and is now contemplating suicide.

The End

Submarine sculpture that almost got us in some trouble.

Naval Academy. We saw a fallout shelter, too.

Naval Academy

He's a little camera shy.

Yes, Amelia is holding two ice creams. And yes, we are extremely photogenic.

He gave Amelia a dirty look after she took this picture. Some people just need to lighten up, especially people in ye olde clothes.

Cute bonnet.

We make friends wherever we go.

The lifeguard who we heard muttering, "I wish someone would drown or something. Or maybe there could be a boat fire."

The beach and Bay Bridge (Cat refused to go in the water-- lame)

Our bucket list ended perfectly. We woke up early and drove out to Sandy Point State Park by the Bay Bridge. Amelia drove, and only had one iffy moment (blind spots are tricky). We lay on the beach and relaxed for the morning, the calming sounds of creepy school children and strange lifeguards around us.

In the afternoon, we drove to Annapolis (our capital) and met Amelia's dad for lunch. His office is in Annapolis. He took us to a sandwich place and Amelia almost died from chicken salad that tasted like acid. Then we got his favorite gelato.

Then we walked around the Naval Academy. Except we almost didn't get in because Cat forgot how old she was.

The best moment of the day was as we were in an interesting part of Washington D.C. driving home, our favorite song came on (we're not telling what it is) and it was kind of the perfect way to end our senior project.

We also didn't accomplish a lot of the things on our bucket list: paintballing, protesting, learning karate, skydiving, flying a plane, going to the moon, actually learning how to dive, taking over the world... but we still plan on doing all of them :)

Love,

Cat and Amelia

Trynna Sew

We tried to make dresses. Our friendly guide Giannyl was there to help us every step of the way. Here's a video of her if you want to make your own one shoulder bow strap dress:

The actual dresses we made were too obscene to post. Amelia's did not fit over her right leg, and Cat's just looked like a box. We still have the purple remnants somewhere.

Also, never lose a needle in Cat's family room. She freaks out.

We are going to attempt to make these dresses again, though, with different fabric and a sewing machine. And someone else sewing.

The dreaded swim

She dives like a pro.

She's so passionate about swimming

Triathletes...

Cat biking. It's too bad you can't see the look of intense determination on her face.

The bikes

Part of the run

Don't forget to hydrate!

Pre-Triathlon jitters

Today, we competed in a Triathlon. This was a big day for us: we had to run, bike, and swim.

The typical distances of a Triathlon are:

1.5 km swim

40 km bike ride

10 km run

That didn't work for us. We went with:

2 lap swim

10minute bike ride

1.5 mile run

Stick Shift

Since we are such good drivers on automatic cars, we figured we would be equally talented at driving stick shift cars.

Lucy agreed to teach us. She's obviously never heard the mailbox stories.

Here are some videos of our driving:

At first we had trouble... Lucy even had to yell at Amelia that driving a stick shift isn't ballet. Who knew.

"How do I stop??"

Amelia stalled out a lot.

But then we got better:

Amelia getting up a slight incline, like a champion.

Cat got better too.

After destroying Lucy's car, Lucy took us to a cave. We crawled through a tiny opening in the rocks, and ducked underwater, and came out under a waterfall. Something smelled really bad when we were climbing to the cave, and Lucy found a decaying turtle. Cat also gave us a life lesson to remember: copperheads come out at dusk.

Thank you Lucy!!

Fair Trade?

This was the (unfair) deal:

The stall

The bellyflop

Don't judge us.