These "F's" are A-OK In My Book.

First of all - it's a three day weekend and my-oh-my isn't that Fantastic?!?!

And to start it off with a bang, on Friday night, Zach was taken out to dinner with the UW Fiji rush chairs.  He knew they were coming to town for the weekend and was invited to dinner, to stay over for festivities and today they are going paint balling.  Sounds fun.  

With Ryan's recruitment, it was all based on a scholarship and improving the house and he was recruited 3 weeks before he had to move in. It was a much much different affair! For Zach, he was contacted by five different fraternities.  He met with them last weekend on our visit over there and stayed at the Fiji house - as we know some young men in that house already.  But what we didn't know was how this particular recruitment was going to go.  When would he find out who liked him?  (Who wouldn't?!) What sort of steps does he have to go through with these Spokane visits?  Just a lot of unknowns and if he had the details, well... he's 18, so we were going to get the basics:

MOTY:  So what's the plan?

Wack:  What do you mean?  We're going to dinner then staying at the Chapman (made up) house and paint balling in the morning.

MOTY:  Yah, but... then what?  I mean... you're not driving anywhere right?

Wack:  No.  No one is driving anywhere except to dinner.

MOTY:  Who all is going?  Is Jeff?  Or Chase?  Any of the other guys that are wanting to rush?

Wack:  I don't know.  K.  Welp... see ya later.

MOTY: <under breath>  Welp... eff.  <thumbs up>

We had a cocktail with some friends last night and then went out for a bit later after we all dispersed.  While we were out we got this:

The Fiji house is pretty sweet, I must say.  It is also the closest fraternity to campus.  This made our night.  It is comforting to know that he is going to Seattle and will immediately be involved with a band of brothers.  That he will have immediate bonding and all that comes along with being in a fraternity.  In a city the size of Seattle and at a school as large as UW, and as a parent from The Can - this takes some edge off of Zach's new adventure.

So as #7 left the house those years ago to go to EWU - he had the brotherhood of his football team.  Blue Eyes left two years later to the Mighty Fiji (Phi Gamma Delta) house in Pullman and now Wack is joining the Fiji house at the University of Washington.  

"F" seems to be a letter that is making great things happen for my boys.  Though they will all tell you, the BEAST MOTY was when it came to anything below a B with grades.  Really it was a "C" (on a test or assignment, no how, no way was anything below a B "allowed" on a report card) but they like to embellish those stories.  They've gotten to that age.  It's swell.

But I'm proud to say that an "F" as it stands (for football and Fiji) is acceptable.