- Summer Skin -

My cousin, Jesse, leaves to Berlin, Germany this Wednesday to serve an LDS mission. Lucky duck, right? So we went down to St. Geezy for the weekend to attend his farewell.


Arriving on Saturday, we went to Sand Hollow and spent the day boating/swimming/getting pelted by hateful sand and sunburn.

10000 degrees outside with not a cloud in the sky.

Love that.

- Sesame Street -

I wish Tilly and the Wall were around to teach me the ABC's! Lucky kids..

- Wind It Up -

Decided this was blog worthy-

Urban Word of the Day
Urban Farmer

Definition:
A person who constantly plays Farmville and acts like they know everything about a real farm-- but all they do is live in the city, sit at a computer, and at a certain time, need to stop what they are doing to farm their imaginary crops.
The most peculiar thing happened last night while Macky, Ben and I were at Walmart.

[^Ben, Me, and Macky- at Walmart]

I threw a football towards Ben, ended up hitting a TON of toys off the tops of the whole isle we were in, and just like that... The power went out. It wasn't my fault- at least I don't think it was my fault- how strange!

What was that like? Oh you know..

It was really quiet. It was really dark, obviously. There was one employee walking around saying "I can't work like this.." Ha ha. Part of me felt like we had snuck in and that we were criminals [especially since Ben was pretending to steal things] while another part of me felt like we were about to be victims. Scary movie type victims. Huge man with nothing but a hack saw and a wood chipper on wheels type victims. You know.. Those ones. Okay I didn't really ever think about that man until now- but the phrase "Walmart hostage" did cross my mind.

We were there to buy kites but since checkout stands were all out of order, we ended up being hustled to the front of the store to wait until systems were back. That took way too long so we went to Smith's. Smith's is better anyways, that's what I think.

Ben's kite only experienced one minute of wind loving life. Mackenzie's kite stayed intact the whole time [as far as I know] and my kite just looked cool. It was a ravenous T-Rex. A ravenous T-Rex whose string broke twice and flew from the south-west side of the quad over the whole Geology building to the sidewalk east of the greenhouse. Can you belee dat? It's pretty lucky I found it.

Maybe the maps help the human mind understand the great distance my kite conquered.
COOL.

- March 14 2010 -

DAY TWO

We spent our first night with Jarna.

^This is Jarna.

She was my manager over the summer and while we were working in Moses Lake- she just up and decided to move there. I'm still having a hard time understanding why someone would ever do that.. move the Moses Lake that is. But whatever. Ha.

While at Jarna's we enjoyed great company- made a few new friends [Hailey (Jarna's Roommate) and Scooter (real name John the 3rd?)]- and enjoyed good sleep- surprisingly enough [since I slept on a recliner].

In the morning, Jarna made us breakfast [Cream of Wheat] And we were on the road again headed towards Camano Island around 10:30 a.m. And somehow [because we made stops at the Columbia River and Snoqualmie Falls] our 3 hour trip turned into a 6+ hour trip.

^Carly getting rid of all the tumble weed shoved up the front of the car.

^The Columbia River.

Lucky for us [having been blessed so incredibly much on the trip already] the camp attendant at Cama Beach was still there when we arrived at the campground half an hour after the check-in hut had already closed down. We would have been in so much trouble if he wasn't there! He helped us figure out where to go, where to park, and gave us information about the shuttle, cabin, key, and everything else.

He also talked to the shuttle driver about helping us down to our cabin with all our stuff [since the shuttle is the only thing that goes down to the beach]. We were so thankful for that.

^Cama Beach greatness.

After dark we stayed inside the cabin and played Farkle while watching Monsters Inc.

Yes- Monsters Inc.

It was the only way to keep the murder mystery scenarios from consuming our minds. Think about the story- 3 girls going on spring break to a cabin by themselves blah blah blah...

FREAKY.

- Happiest Lady Alive-

My phone started ringing this morning at 7:15 a.m. It was an unknown number so I was just going to ignore it and go back to sleep, BUT I DIDN'T. AND I'M SO GLAD ABOUT THAT! ha. Because it was LEVI!! calling me from the airport :). I had NO idea he would even consider calling me, let alone do it! AWESOME. THEN, this afternoon, I received an envelope from him- full of pictures and a huugee letter. Man.. I'm just the happiest lady alive.

- Coat Check Dream Song -

Here are some pictures from our drive to Washington and adventures so far-

Zebra gum tattoos at the hotel before we left! Whoo!

My car was packed.


Some scenic view near Twin Falls, Id.



My service engine light came on halfway to our destination :( ha.


Nearing the end of day one in Parma, Id.


Super cool Chinese Pheasant that Jarna's neighbor had.


The Redneck Cafe- Middle of nowhere, Oregon.


Gas station next to The Redneck Cafe.
This sign says engine must be shut off during refueling.


Scenic view #2 in Oregon, I think, IDK maybe it's in Washington.


Nearing our final destination. Kennewick, WA.

Our first day of sales was on Saturday. My GPS battery ran out within the first few hours so I spent a lot of the day driving around trying to find roads on my list. But, I was the only one of the girls teams who sold sets (I sold 4 sets to one couple) and for that I just consider myself lucky. The day was very emotionally trying, and I've decided I'll NEVER be mean to a sales person ever again.

Our apartment is way ghetto but very spacious because there is absolutely nothing in it except what we brought with us.. So we have no furniture, microwave, anything. We live on W. Hood Avenue and the name is completely appropriate.

We went to the Richland, WA singles ward yesterday. Weird people go to singles ward. That's all.


* I miss my family A LOT.

Happy Mothers Day, Mom! I love you! You're wonderful!

- Lucky Star -

Why am I so incredibly lucky when it comes to my 2d design class?

Yesterday was my second attempt at missing class and it didn't even matter because, once again, class was coincidentally canceled.

1st time I missed class- the teacher told everyone to go home and watch the inauguration.

2nd time I missed class- the teacher never showed up because she was sick.

HA

How cool is THAT.