Just a friendly reminder that you have less than two weeks to book a room at the Nittany Lion Inn at the special rate of $135 a night. After 7/8/08 all rooms in our room block will be let go and you'll have to pay full price.
To get the special rate use the reservation id code from the "Hotel Information" link on the right.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
State College vs. University Park
We've gotten some questions about State College vs. University Park. Why is the ceremony in University Park and the reception in State College? What's the difference? Are they are far apart? I thought the wedding was at Penn State? What's the deal? So here are your answers.
No, they aren't far apart. You can walk from the Nittany Lion Inn to the chapel. The Penn State campus has it's own post office, zip code, and post office addresses. This causes lots of confusion. University Park is anything that is on campus. State College is anything that is off campus.
What's the deal with that? Well up until 1953 Penn State was officially "The Pennsylvania State College". In 1953 the name was changed to "The Pennsylvania State University". The president of PSU at the time, Milton S. Eisenhower, tried to get the town to changes its name from "State College" to "State University". They took a vote, but there wasn't a majority winner so the name stayed State College. Milton decided he didn't like that much so he got the university its own post office and zip code with the designation University Park. Since his brother was the President of the United States at the time he had a little bit of pull with the Post Office...
You will also sometimes hear the area referred to as "Happy Valley". Come to a Penn State football game with Gina and I and you'll understand why!
Finally, the Nittany Lion Inn is on campus, but has a State College address. Why? I'm not sure. My guess is because they serve alcohol there and that's not allowed on campus. So it may "technically" be off campus, but that would be in name only.
No, they aren't far apart. You can walk from the Nittany Lion Inn to the chapel. The Penn State campus has it's own post office, zip code, and post office addresses. This causes lots of confusion. University Park is anything that is on campus. State College is anything that is off campus.
What's the deal with that? Well up until 1953 Penn State was officially "The Pennsylvania State College". In 1953 the name was changed to "The Pennsylvania State University". The president of PSU at the time, Milton S. Eisenhower, tried to get the town to changes its name from "State College" to "State University". They took a vote, but there wasn't a majority winner so the name stayed State College. Milton decided he didn't like that much so he got the university its own post office and zip code with the designation University Park. Since his brother was the President of the United States at the time he had a little bit of pull with the Post Office...
You will also sometimes hear the area referred to as "Happy Valley". Come to a Penn State football game with Gina and I and you'll understand why!
Finally, the Nittany Lion Inn is on campus, but has a State College address. Why? I'm not sure. My guess is because they serve alcohol there and that's not allowed on campus. So it may "technically" be off campus, but that would be in name only.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Streetview coming to Penn State
Google has decided to start mapping college campuses for Google streetview. According to this story, Penn State will be one of the first campuses mapped. If they get this finished before the wedding I'll post a streetview map from the Nittany Lion Inn to the chapel.
If you've never used Google streetview before you need to check it out. You can see what places look like as if you were there. Here's a view of the intersection near our house. If you play around with that you can spin the angle of the camera around and move it.
View Larger Map
It doesn't look like it's available yet for Penn State. Hopefully they add it soon.
If you've never used Google streetview before you need to check it out. You can see what places look like as if you were there. Here's a view of the intersection near our house. If you play around with that you can spin the angle of the camera around and move it.
View Larger Map
It doesn't look like it's available yet for Penn State. Hopefully they add it soon.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Moving on up!
I can't believe the wedding is less than two months away!!! This will be a very exciting weekend - on Saturday I am going for my first wedding gown fitting. My dress finally arrived in the continental United States, I ordered it in January. My mom is coming down to join in on the fun!
And we got some good news today (well good news for us, not so good news for another couple). The Nittany Lion Inn has two ballrooms, The Boardroom and The Ballroom. The Boardroom is where we were scheduled to have our wedding because the Ballroom was already booked. Its a bigger, nicer space. Well it turns out that couple decided not to get married after all, so we are moving on up to the Ballroom!!! It has a bigger dance floor too, for those of you planning to do the Running Man this is key. :)
And don't forget to book your rooms - after July 8 our room block gets released to the general public and the discount rate is no longer valid.
And we got some good news today (well good news for us, not so good news for another couple). The Nittany Lion Inn has two ballrooms, The Boardroom and The Ballroom. The Boardroom is where we were scheduled to have our wedding because the Ballroom was already booked. Its a bigger, nicer space. Well it turns out that couple decided not to get married after all, so we are moving on up to the Ballroom!!! It has a bigger dance floor too, for those of you planning to do the Running Man this is key. :)
And don't forget to book your rooms - after July 8 our room block gets released to the general public and the discount rate is no longer valid.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
SCUBA Diving in the Keys
Gina and I are back from a short vacation in the Florida Keys. We flew into Ft. Lauderdale Thursday morning and then drove down to Summerland Key to stay with my brother, Marc. Gina finally got to meet Marc's dog Dallas.
Friday morning Marc, Gina, one of Marc's friends and I did two dives on Looe Key. This is a fairly shallow reef that gave us a maximum depth of about 25 feet. The reef here is in pretty good shape and we saw lots of interesting sea life. Here are a few pictures:
French Angel Fish
Friday morning Marc, Gina, one of Marc's friends and I did two dives on Looe Key. This is a fairly shallow reef that gave us a maximum depth of about 25 feet. The reef here is in pretty good shape and we saw lots of interesting sea life. Here are a few pictures:
French Angel Fish
Sting Ray
I have to look this one up
Barracuda
Looe Key was nice, but the highlight of the trip was getting to dive on the USNS Vandenberg. The Vandenberg was sunk on 5/27/09 to create an artificial reef. It opened for diving on 5/30/09. We went out to dive the Vandenberg on 6/7/09 so we were some of the first divers to get to see the wreck.
The Vandenberg is about 7 miles from Key West and was sunk in 140' of water. The deck is at about 95' and the super structure starts at around 50'. Gina, Marc, and I did 2 dives. The boat was tied into the middle of the ship between two large radar dishes.
Our first dive we went to the stern of the ship and had a maximum depth of 89'. The dive lasted about 34 minutes. Our second dive we explored the bow of the ship and even did a quick swim through on the bridge. Our maximum depth on the second dive was 97' for 37 minutes. Here are a few pictures:
One of the radar dishes
Gina and I near the center of the ship
On the bow
Gina on the bridge
Near one of the radar dishes
I have to look this one up
BarracudaLooe Key was nice, but the highlight of the trip was getting to dive on the USNS Vandenberg. The Vandenberg was sunk on 5/27/09 to create an artificial reef. It opened for diving on 5/30/09. We went out to dive the Vandenberg on 6/7/09 so we were some of the first divers to get to see the wreck.
The Vandenberg is about 7 miles from Key West and was sunk in 140' of water. The deck is at about 95' and the super structure starts at around 50'. Gina, Marc, and I did 2 dives. The boat was tied into the middle of the ship between two large radar dishes.
Our first dive we went to the stern of the ship and had a maximum depth of 89'. The dive lasted about 34 minutes. Our second dive we explored the bow of the ship and even did a quick swim through on the bridge. Our maximum depth on the second dive was 97' for 37 minutes. Here are a few pictures:
One of the radar dishes
Gina and I near the center of the ship
On the bow
Gina on the bridge
Near one of the radar dishesMarc took most of the pictures using my camera. They turned out pretty well.
The trip ended way too soon and we flew back to DC on Monday. Gina and I had a blast and can't wait for more diving on the honeymoon. We are going to have to head back to the Keys sometime soon too.
Less than 2 months until the wedding!
The trip ended way too soon and we flew back to DC on Monday. Gina and I had a blast and can't wait for more diving on the honeymoon. We are going to have to head back to the Keys sometime soon too.
Less than 2 months until the wedding!
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