down and dirty.

so we're building this steel bridge for our senior design project. we spent all last semester designing it, analyzing it, realizing that it wouldn't work, redesigning it... you get the idea. we finally got to the point right at the end of the semester where we were able to estimate the amount of steel we would need and order it. it came in over break. the boys went and picked it up, and its been waiting down in the shop for us to have enough space and enough of a plan to actually start working on it.
we spent a good part of the past week clearing space, picking old tape up off the floor, and laying out the new 'river' over which our bridge will go. we're starting off a little bit slow, but are hoping that things will pick up in the next couple of days as we figure out what has to happen first in the process of actually doin all the hands-on work that will (in theory) create a bridge. its a messy process at times, but we're havin fun with it :)