Ice Cream, Crappy Neighborhood & Youth Hostel

In my last blog, I mentioned that I won a bunch of Edy's Ice Cream. It's scheduled to be delivered sometime around July 26th. A few weeks ago I made up a flyer and deposited them in everyone's mailboxes and waited for rsvp's to pour in. Three weeks later I'm still waiting. In fact, as of last night, there were only two other houses signed up for a grand total of 10 people (adults & kids). I'm really bummed out about this. There were plans for the fire department to bring out a fire truck for the kids to check out, the police department to do finger printing and talking about bike safety, burgers, hot dogs, music, ice cream and general good times. Everyone I talked to seemed really excited and interested in the party, they thought it was cool that I took the time and effort to submit an essay about the neighborhood. The final straw for me happened last night; last week I sent out an email to all 9 of our "neighborhood committee" people (these are the people excited about this and willing to help out in anyway) about having a party planning meeting last night. I sat and waited and waited, not one person showed up. I must really suck, maybe my idea of good times is not the same as most others. All I know is that I'm going to sit on my front lawn in a couple weeks, when it's really hot, and eat my ice cream so everyone can see me when they drive by.

Re: Youth Hostel
We seem to be running a youth hostel this summer. In addition to Alex staying in the "Santa Fe" room, my sister is staying upstairs since she's working with Ben's company also. I like having the extra people around to talk to for sure. Ben enjoys having some different people around to play Mario Kart. Do we still need a DD for Srassenfest? Stacie could drive us back if needed.