- Who Else Is Sick Of Mud Rain Covering Everything?-

Went with Carli Bahm and Macky to true aggie last night. No doubt we listened to Miley Cyrus [Party In The USA] all the way there to get the girls PUMPED. I was the supervisor and did not participate. But Carli and Macky did :). And star gazing did not exist because it was snowing/cloudy all evening. Which is okay. I'll see stars over the summer.

- Pathetic Party -

pa·thet·ic par·ty

Pronunciation: \pə-ˈthe-tik\ \ˈpär-tē\
Function: Noun

Def: A group gathering provoked by a sudden realization of each participating individuals ridiculous fantasies: Amanda and Megan would have liked to have had a pathetic party at the USU library this afternoon but their schedules had a conflict. So instead, Amanda and Megan will be frowning together while participating in a pathetic party combined with star gazing event on the USU quad tonight.

Synonyms see 3. Lovesick; 7. Lame; 1. Laughable

Origin: Logan, Ut. March 29, 2010.

- Truth Or Dare Me. Please. -

[ TRUTH ]
A facebook slave-------> That's what I am.

No doubt- I have been on it from 7:00 p.m.---->now.

[ TRUTH ]
I can't wait to star-see tomorrow night on the quad.
Thanks for inviting me Carli Bahm.

[ TRUTH ]

I bought a deck of Truth or Dare cards while I was in elementary school.

Just dying to know what some of them they say?..

Truth

-Do you think any of your friends snore?
-Who was the first friend you ever had?
-Which friend do you think is most likely to become a doctor?
-Name one thing you like about each friend.
-Which of your friends is most likely to become an astronaut?
-What is the silliest thin you've ever seen the friend across from you do?
-Make up a dream vacation for the friend on your right.
-Which friend would you most like to have as a roommate, and why?

- or -

Dare

-Call someone you'd like to be friends with and ask that person to come over. [I admit I'm still -not brave enough to do this one sometimes.]
-Sit on the lap of the friend on your left until your next turn.
-Close your eyes and have a friend volunteer to let you feel his or her face, then guess who it is.
-Describe a dream you had about a friend.
-Name each of your frineds birthdays. If you can't, stand on one leg until your next turn
-Ask each friend what nickname they'd like to call you.
-Name what you think each friend will be when he or she grows up.
-Act like your friend when he or she is mad.
-Try to hold your breath for as long as it takes a friend to tell the story of Cinderella.
-Let a friend predict your future.
-Make up a joke about the friend across from you.

All pretty classic, right? I brought the game up to college a few months ago and I hope to play it soon. Actually I want to play it right now.. but Carli Bahm just left so.. that's the end of that. Ha.

P.s. Not trying to be a huge complainer or anything but- my knee has been hurting+bad. I can't decide if it's because I went scootering over a pothole in Seattle [and tripped it big time]- or just have the joints of a grandma. ---------> The more I walk on the knee the more it feels like it's going to explode into a thousand pieces of hate. Or something. OUCH.

- March 16 2010 -

DAY FOUR

[Sorry It's taking me so long to post all the days--- I just really hate sitting here on my laptop forever.]

It was the last morning at the cabin so after finding Macky a shell to take home- we cleaned up and took off towards Seattle.

Farewell wonderful cabin! P.s. We had to haul those carts up an extremely steep road to our car in the upper parking lot. ..Hmm.. Yeah- can't really think of anything fun about that.

On our way back down the hill with the carts there was a couple walking up the road and the man was carrying the baby and the woman was hauling the cart. What a considerate husband.. ha.

On our way off the island we stopped at Haggen's grocery store for donuts [on my last post I'll tell you how many donuts we ate over the trip- oh I could throw up thinking about it]. They had the yummest selection I ever did see!

^MMMmmyumyumyumyumyumyum.

Checking into the Seattle hotel was a little bit of a struggle. Turns out you can't check-in unless you're 21. Which none of us are. SO-- that was frightening. But after a chat with Carly's dad they let us in. And gave us free parking! (: Which was GREAT since it's $10 per night.

Basically the only other thing we did after that was go on the underground tour- and it was REALLY COOL. I highly recommend it. Do you know what it is? I'll tell you:

Back in 1889 the whole city of Seattle burned down. The town took this as an opportunity to install a new and better sewer system, so they told the merchants they had to wait 10 years [until it was done] before they could build their shops back.

[Side note: The original sewer system ran above ground- and whether you could flush the toilet depended on whether the ocean was experiencing high tide or low tide. If you flushed during high tide- sewage would explode all over you. You can see why they needed a new system.]

The people were upset with this becuase the only reason they were there was to make money- and without shops for 10 years they couldn't do that. So, they built their shops anyways [out of stone this time- not wood]. The city still wanted to go along with their plans to build an underground sewage system- so they built the road around 15 (?) feet up and put it inside. [F.Y.I. I don't think that's the only reason. I also read it was to prevent another fire and prevent flooding from the bay.]

So how that worked was the original 1st floor of the buildings and sidewalks were now under ground and there were either ladders leading up to the road or walkways from the street to the second floor. Pretty neat. I guess for a long while people still used the underground sidewalk areas and often times there'd be way sketchy business going on and crooks would board up the skylights no one could see down. Scandalous!

Umm- yup so that is what the underground tour was. We went through the underground on the original sidewalks and saw the underneath of the original buildings around pioneer square. It was really neat.

^ I don't know why we didn't take more pictures of the tour. All we have is one of us before it and one of an original toilet. HA. Oh well..

Oh also something that happened was- at one point the tour guide turned to us and asked us what we were doing that night and we said we didn't know then she was like-

"Do you have grownups with you?"

and I said

"What? We are grownups."

And to this day- I'm still so mad that she was mocking us- especially since she, herself, was a newly wed school teacher who was probably at oldest age 26. AHH. Ridiculous.

Below = Crab Pot for dinner = Clam Chowder :D

We were going to go to Alice In Wonderland 3D Imax that night but couldn't because we didn't officially have our city passes yet- so we stayed at the hotel and watched 90210 instead. Which was better anyway- NO DOUBT.

The end.. and I don't know if I'll ever post about the last few days so maybe just.. pray that I do. (: ... ha.

- March 15 2010 -

DAY THREE

Say 'Hello' to Cama Beach at 7:45 a.m.

I could have sat out there all morning, all day and all night. But I didn't because we had Friday Harbor to visit. First time on a ferry= A+ experience NO DOUBT.

Beautiful

Yay! Our destination!

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Lots of this [map confusion] went down on the island. It was hard to get to places with our cartoon tourist map [an image is somewhere in this post]. And without a car. / a scooter.

Can I just say that we didn't have our scooters because if we would have grabbed them we would have missed the ferry? And that we gave a old stranger man a ride across the ferry parking lot so he himself wouldn't miss it?

Yeah. That happened.

And he was so thankful- he offered to buy us our morning coffee and we said "No thanks, already had it." HAAaa. Not really. But he did offer us coffee.

^ Toy store. This photo almost makes me wish I still had a facebook so I could make it my profile picture. What up gangsta.

^ Here we have Carly and I just taking a little rest at the public park... More like public patch of grass, flag pole, and fire hydrant.

Thee above [5] pictures from the Orca Museum. Pretty neat. I knew you all were dying to see containers with partially developed dolphins and sea lions inside. So there you go. Also up there is a human brain compared to a Dolphin brain and Fin Whale brain. PUNY.

Lunch was at a place called 'The Doctors Office'. A cute little shop- perfect for island type folk. You know- old, annoyed, newspaper reading people who never married or had kids because all they wanted in life was to be successful. That type of folk.


Since we had no form of transportation- we didn't really know what to do after we'd covered the ground near where the ferry dropped us off.. So we decided to take the advice of a lady we'd talked to at the book store earlier that day. Her advice was to go to Griffin Bay. She said it was a great place to go and that we could get there if we were willing to go on a little walk. Little did we know that by 'little walk' she meant- 6 hours worth of walking.

The above map is pretty self explanatory. It shows us. It shows Griffin Bay. No- we didn't walk for six hours [hence the big 'X' through Griffin Bay]. But we would have- had it not been for the kind lady who informed us of the trek before hand.

See that arrow to Jackson Beach? That's where we ended up going. It took a little more than an hour to walk to but- compared to 6 hours- that was nothing.

OUR JOURNEY

JACKSON BEACH

Notice how I'm using my camera in the above photo? Below are the pictures I was taking around this time. The sequence is of Macky FINALLY crossing the spider covered logs. She was so scared it wasn't until we started to leave her [and her yelling "No wait! Don't leave me! I'm coming right now!"] that she realized jumping back over the pile was her only option. .. And even then it still took her at least another 5 minutes to do it. Ha.

^ The look of a frightened, but ever-smiling, Macky.

^When I first saw this picture I thought I was scootering but- that is not the case. My neck was just feeling so heavy from my camera that is how I was walking. Cute.

^Pro idea= Putting the camera on my boot so it could take a group picture.

^Barefoot.

^I know I'm so lame. I thought this was funny because it was 5 feet from the restroom entrance.

Radatat. That's what we are. There were tons of fun shops around the harbor. I found my true love inside one of them- it was a wool (?) beanie. I could have married that thing if only it didn't cost $58. ): Forever sad about that.

One last hoo-rah at 'The Doctors Office' before boarding the ferry back to Anacortes. The lady who made our ice cream cones kept asking Macky whether she wanted a cake cone or waffle cone and Macky kept saying cake- probably 3 or 4 times- and when the lady brought out her icecream it was in a waffle cone. And I just had to laugh so hard.

While finishing our ice cream we stood and talked to a cute old couple who was also waiting for the ferry. Even though the older lady thought I was still in high school, our meeting was really nice. We told them about our spring break and our desire to see a volcano and they told us about a place called Paradise where we could spend the day venturing Mt. Rainier. They also told us Mt. Vernon was a city, not a volcano -talk about major LET DOWN-. Ha. We thought for sure it was a volcano.

^Cars loading onto ferry. Goodbye Friday Harbor ):..

^.. and goodnight Carly. Ha.


The day was great and to top it off- we passed this field of flowers on our way back to Camano Island. SO COOL. Why don't we have fields of flowers here?

Dear Utah,

Grow fields of flowers please.
Thanks.


Until next post, bye. (: