MAKE BEN FAIR

Yesterday was a great day, we had our surf trip reunion party at the lake. Nathan and his dad took us out to Lake Belton with two really nice boats and we learned to Scurf. As you can see here in the picture, this is my first attempt at Scurf and it doesn't look very good... but the general idea behind scurfing is to weight down the back of the boat so you get a big wake and then to surf behind the boat. Later in the day I was able to do it without using the rope and just let the wave push me... the only way this works is to be really close to the boat and at first I was too chicken. Then I realized that the boats have made alot of improvements since I was a kid. The motors are no longer on the back where people can get hurt... they are under the middle of the boat. So if you get a chance you must go scurfing, everyone that went was able to do it with ease... very very fun!!!!

Blink 182 concert was awesome! They are so much fun live. Their drummer, Travis Barker, is the most amazing drummer I have ever had the privileged to watch. The funny thing was he had a broken foot and didn't even use his right foot at all and it was still the most amazing thing I have ever heard. This concert was the best visual concert I have ever been too. They had 5 gigantic screens on stage that were showing video footage that tied into the songs but was also just kinda random... and the light show was amazing! I guess part of it was the type of music, lights dance to the beat and if the beat is 4 on the floor the whole time...well the lights are just going nuts the whole time... it was truly awesome. When they finished playing the drummer left out on a wheel chair and the other guys stayed and jammed on this slow deal... then you hear the drums kick in but you don't see him anywhere??? "turn around" I thought as I tried to figure out how this could be happening. Low and behold the drums were rising up out of the middle of the crowd and Travis was sitting on a spinning stage playing a drum solo... this lasted at least 5 mins. and again BROKEN FOOT!!!! and still the most amazing drummer I have ever heard! So go listen to the new blink album if you haven't... it is great, they are great, Travis Barker is great!!!!

Its been a few weeks since I have been on the old skateboard. We skated over spring break but not since. So tonight we gathered the troups and headed out to the new shopping mall to do some skating. It was a blast. We tied a rope to the back of matt's car and would hold on as the car would pull us something like 18 miles an hour. It isn't any faster than just going down a hill, it is just a consistant speed so it is quite fun. At one point Dave and Scott and Hickman go off with the car and Harris, Matt, Henry and I were left on the front side of the mall. We see a cop go flying in their direction and sure enough they got busted. The funniest part was someone called us in saying that we were pulling up a tree. That was such a hoax, why would we pull up a tree? I mean, sure we were in the shopping carts that were left in the parking lot, and sure they were being pushed into the curb so when it hits the curb the person in it would go flying out of the cart( very fun and it doesnt' hurt) but we were not pulling up any trees. So the cop told us that we had to leave unless we could get written permission from the owner saying we could skate on his property. We decided we were going to seek permission to make some movies in the parking lot and that way we could skate.

So then we decided to head over to the Baylor parking garage and as soon as we got there a cop was just waiting on us... and of course told us that we couldn't skate there anymore? what is up with that??? the funniest part of the whole thing was at the top of the parking there was a band having band practice. They were playing some punk song..it was like a movie! All in all a pretty sweet night! I wish I had the video camera but oh course the one night that all the most awesome stuff happens... we didn't take the camera.