It's better than scrapbooking!

Ahh, the memories!

I'm sure glad my parents didn't do this!

Trip Scrapbook No. 4

One of the highlights of the trip was a visit to CERN, the largest science and research complex in the world, and home to the Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator that they used to find the Higgs boson.

For science geeks, it was amazing.

The LHC was undergoing maintenance, so our group was able to go down (30 stories down) to see it up close and in person. It was unbelievable. Our science teacher was over the top!

The LHC will start up again in September, so we were one of the last groups that could actually see it. A once in a lifetime experience!

If you're actually interested in seeing any of our photos, they're compiled on our Flickr site.

Sprucing up the stats

My sister-in-law, who may or may not have been known as Sis, O'Leary, passed away unexpectedly a short time ago. She was an avid scrapbooker who personally kept Michael's and Hobby Lobby in business -- although she was probably supplied and equipped well enough to open a store of her own!