R.I.P. Steve Irwin "Corcodile Hunter"

The Beloved Croc. Hunter



As many of you know Steve Irwin has passed away. Despite his choice in career as a popular croc. hunter, a croc did not kill him.

I had decided to go home for the long labor day weekend to visit with my boyfriend, Andy, and a couple of my good high school friends. Well, it came to be sunday night and my friend Joe told a couple of us that he was going to have a cookout at his new apartment at NIU. So Andy and I drove over there at around six. We played bags for a bit while the food was cooking and we just visited with old friends. It was really nice being able to talk and see everyone--even though i have only been gone for about 2 and 1/2 weeks..but i guess when you spend pretty much everyday with people they become your family and are hard to leave. So it was great to see all of them. The night began to wear down and since the heavy rain ended our entertaining games of bags we all decided to go inside and watch a movie. The movie choice was left to me--so obviously I picked a comedy and it ended up being Ace Ventura Pet Detective. As we were watching this hysterical movie Lindsey came down from upstairs and said with a somber tone. "Guys I have some bad news..." muting the movie and hanging on her last word we sat for what seemed like ages wondering what awful thing had happened. She finally composed herself and blurted out "Steve Irwin died in a marine accident!!!" The room hushed as the sad truth was taken in. I sat looking at Andy thinking "no more crocky! or lets go get some crocs, or anything that made steve a legend".

We all had our deep moment to compose ourselves..a few guys that were there laughed after Lindsey told us..but I think that was only to keep from crying. Then we turned the movie back on and pushed Steve to the back of our minds.

The sad truth of what really happened to Steve Irwin can be found at http://news.yahoo.com/fc/entertainment/steve_irwin

But, on a happer note, the movie was still hysterical and I ended up having a great weekend despite the depressing news about Steve.