The Mystery is Over!

I've talked about my "Boards" to everyone but I'm not sure it really means much to most people. The actual dimensions of each board is
30" x 50" They're pretty big. You can't really see the details but you can at least get an idea of what's going on. My final review is Wednesday morning. I can't say I'm excited or nervous, but I am looking forward to dressing up for it. I rarely have an excuse to wear my NYC clothes.

The project is called the Sun Ranch Institute, it's a visitor's center and research facility for the Nature Conservancy. We started designing the last week in February and we pretty much had to stop the 15th of April so we could start production of our boards. These two took me an entire week of long-ass days. I started class at 8 am each day and I would work until 11 or midnight most nights. I built 2 model this past week and surprisingly they didn't take nearly as long as the boards did. While building the model I was surprised to learn how much was still left undesigned (that's why I say we had to stop designing) . I would have like to design patterns or openings into the concrete retaining walls, further design seating and floor patterns... It could go on forever.

I'll try to post an update after my final review on Wednesday, but no guarantees, I have a busy week ahead.

The Maiden Blog

Time for a trial run of this thing. I plan on keeping everyone updated through this blog. I think you can leave comment on our posts as well. You can also e-mail either James or me, most of our hostels have internet access.

We have all of our reservations for planes, hostels, hotels, trains and ferries made but we still have a lot to do; forward mail, cancel the paper, get traveler's checks.... And the semester isn't over yet. We have 1 more week of school and then finals week. My studio class is over so that will free up a lot of free time.

I have a final on Friday May 11th at noon. It's over at 2:00 or whenever I finish and immediately after that we'll be on our way to Post Falls, Id. We're flying out of Spokane Saturday evening (red eye to NYC) and we'll arrive in NYC Sunday Morning. Then we fly red eye again to London. We'll arrive in London at 8am their time on Monday. We pretty much have a 12 hour layover in NYC, which was planned. We have to drop of a suite case and we want to get snacks for the trip at Zabar's and eat in Little Italy. Hopefully we'll be worn out enough to sleep during the flight to London. Our 1st hostel is the old dormitory for the St. Paul's Cathedral Choir.

Well, it's 7:00 and that means I need to watch tv (now that I'm finished with my project I can do that!).