I'm on campus right now. I have a group meeting in about 3 1/2 hours and am about to start researching my topic. I think I actually like this group.

Went to the Battleship Texas yesterday. THanks for being my contact Em-J. The intel you supplied was accurate. I was the semi-tour guide although most of the information I was spewing was general crap that most five year olds would know. Ok, well I guess I must first inform you on why I was tour guide. My sister and brother-in-law are taking care of two teenage boys. They were the ones I was guiding through the battleship. The park authorities have openned a lot more of the ship to guests. That's the part I like. Anyway, made friends with a young boy there. He was touring the ship with his mom. It seemed that we kept bumping into each other all over the ship. She was more adventurous than he was. My "group" went down into the engine area and from behind I could hear the boy saying he was scared and wouldn't go down there because it was dark. She went down first and he followed. After that, the boy couldn't help but be amazed at the magnitude of the engines and the compact spacing of everything. I laughed and mentioned to the mother that this couldn't be the boy who was scared not five minutes before. She said that it helped that there were other people around. I think that's true. We are more brave when others are around. I went down into the dark engine area because I didn't want the boys to think I was chickenshit, which I was until I got to the bottom and saw other people down there. Shhh, don't tell anyone my confession. I'll deny it. As we were leaving and on the gangway, the boy saw me and yelled out "hi". Cool kid. One of the last times we bumped into each other he saw me first and said, "We meet again." All that was missing was an Dr. Evil voice and I would have cracked up. Anyway, Em-J, took your advice and had some fun. Three things were missing, though. Can you think of them?