OH MY GOSH IT'S A NEW ENTRY!!!
Okay, so since I haven't posted since school ended, this could be quite hefty. I probably wouldn't post at all, but I'm having a very delayed reaction to a Sam nudge so here it goes. So this summer I had regular summerness for about three weeks. They were a nice three weeks, and then my mother made me go stay with my Aunt in Idaho. Now I love my aunt and cousins and everything, that isn't a question, but I was very objected to this, because she wanted me to stay for a month. That seemed like wayyy too much time to be a guest at someones house. When you are a guest you have to exhibit guest like behavior at all times, and I probably sound horrible for saying this, but that is really unappealing to me. But anyway even though I objected we still had to go. My parents bought plane tickets. Scott was going to football camp in Utah so we both took the plane together. My parents were freaking out because we were going on a plane alone. I was kind of freaking out too, but it turned out to be fine. I left feeling very very independent. Like I was ready to buy my own house or something. My dad was really sweet when he dropped us off. He wouldn't leave until he was absolutely positive that we were on the plane. He just sat on the stairs for like an hour watching us wait. We stayed at my grandparents for like two days after that, well Scott only stayed for like one before going to camp. I went to this country music thing at the Scera with my other aunt, and that was fun. I wasn't really a big fan of the music, it was okay, but it was still fun. I had a churro. It was very good. And then the next day we went to the Blue Bird restaurant to meet my aunt, the food there was very good, which it should have been seeing how long it took them to make it, I had sweet and sour chicken, a bunch of people tried strawberry chicken, which actually tasted kind of good. Weird concept though. And then there was a swap. Aunt Louise traded Natalie for me so that Natalie could get home and off we went. The drive was kind of boring. Aunt Louise was really sweet though, like usual, I know this is also probably horrible, but she's my favorite aunt. And then we went and saw Beauty and the Beast. My cousin Jeana was a dish cloth in it. It was pretty good. I did keep comparing it to the Beauty and the Beast that my school put on earlier. I liked the Beast better in this one, and the duster lady. Eh. They were both good. So I basically moved into their basement. We went to the library the next day and checked out a bunch of books for me to devour, and so all was well. I really liked it there. Especially the people in the ward. I didn't know that ward people could be so nice. I was on a major X men kick while there, I pretty much watched that movie continually on my portable, and then paced across the basement thinking about it to various Wicked songs and such. Bruce wasn't around much at all because he had a roguing job. And when he was around, he was pretty much too tired to do much, because of his roguing job. Jeana and him are really really close. That kind of fascinates me. I could probably never be that close to any of my brothers. Roguing sounds like hell to me personally, but Bruce seemed to really love it. He'd always come home, eat his weight in food, and tell us pearls of Roguer wisdom, such as what not to do in front of a Roguer unless you want to be thrown into a ditch. We rented Man on Fire one time. Really really depressing movie. It did have Denzel though, and he is still as awesome as ever. It's Jeana's job to clean the Roguing vehicles, and I helped a couple times. I can say with certainty that I will never marry a Roguer. You have to wear masks in order to be able to breath in those cars. On the fourth of July we watched a parade and then went to a car show, and then later we had dinner which was amazing, and went to see Transformers. Minus transformers, which was far too cheesy for me to take, it was probably my best fourth of July ever. I even won a raffle. Because I bought Munchkin and they gave me tickets for buying Munchkin and apparently I won. I got this organizer thing that is exceptionally cool, despite the fact that I have nothing to put in, and in any case, I got Munchkin. Jeana and Bruce had this game called Killer Bunnies. So fun. I wanted it. But I bought Munchkin instead, because it looked like fun. And it is. Well when I get people to play it with me. It seems like it's more of an Idahoan game. Utah and New Hampshire people aren't really all that into it. Which is sad. I still need to get Killer Bunnies. We flooded the yard once and played Volleyball. That was really interesting. There were so many drowning bugs it wasn't even funny. The water was disturbingly warm in some places. I even went to Girls Camp there for a couple days. And I even had a pretty good time. We went propelling. Well actually I kind of just watched people propelling because I wasn't allowed to propel because I wasn't a native to that ward. Though even if I could, I probably wouldn't have. Maybe. I don't know. Our ride left early because he had a court case. So we kind of broke the rules and walked back to camp. After we survived going down a really really steep mountain that I was sure would break my ankle. We crossed two rivers and felt very much like Snow White. One girl couldn't cross, so we piggybacked her over. We did this one service project while there where we cut out places from magazines and glued them to pieces of paper. I didn't really understand it, but it was okay. I was kind of really miserable that day. I felt like I wanted to die. Halfway through a lot of people left and went to go make cotton candy. The camp supervisors weren't too pleased with that at all. But then they apologized for not being too pleased with it, when we sent bags to each ward. We played some Munchkin there and that was really fun. Cryshel really loved that game. She was sweet. And we did a skit for skit night that was based off of Little Bunny Foo Foo. Cryshel was the angel of mercy. And I was the heavenly messenger that said the same line each time. I dressed like a bouncer with a whistle that I blew whenever someone did something wrong to announce the Angel of Mercy's presence, my line was "Down came the Angel of Mercy and she said" and I had all these gangsta hand signals while Cryshel would give her little speech. And then after she threatened to turn them into goons, I'd either hit my hand with a fist or I'd make some gesture to indicate death. It was pretty fun. Aunt Louise told me that later they were given the opportunity to do it again but didn't want to without Cryshel and I. And then we went to some star gazing thing and I went home and took a shower at like twelve o clock at night. The shower was like heaven though my feet were irritated for days afterwards. They had gigantic bug bites on them. And they were burnt pretty badly from when I went tubing down the river with Jeana and her friends and forgot to put sunscreen on them. During the tube ride there was like this one waterfall thing and instead of going around it like we should have, we went straight through it. I wasn't hurt too badly, kind of banged up, but Kelsey got a huge cut going down her leg and we kind of ended up walking the rest of the way. I never really got the hang of tubing. I would either go too fast or too slow, so I was always either wayy in the front or wayyyy in the back. But it was still very fun. I ate a lot of otter pops while over there. We went to Sam's club a couple of times. I liked that store. Their churros aren't nearly as good as the Sceras though. They did have HUGE slices of pizza though and that was pretty cool. After living in New Hampshire for two years I couldn't get over how cheap food was there. I was like "Wow!" everytime we came across a food item. Then again, New Hampshire had no tax, and I shall sorely miss that. We went garage saling a couple times. I really loved that. I couldn't believe my mother hadn't exposed me to the wonders of it before. The first time I got a bunch of hats and a book, and Aunt Louise got some water barrels and an entertainment set thing. I also got some presents for my little sisters. Because I am insane and love to buy presents for people, I even got my mother a chocolate fondue fountain. It's pretty much an addiction. The second time we went it was after we drove down to Orem for a family reunion. I didn't know any of those people, but I met one of my mother's cousins, named Bretton. Weird name. Anyway, we went to Kiss me Kate that night. It was horrible. One of the worst plays I have ever seen. Plot holes galore. Some of the songs were okay though. I had the 'It's too darn hot' song stuck in my head for days. Then we went garage saling with Natalie in Salt Lake the next morning. That was fun. We went to this one house and it had like elk heads and snake skins and furs and all of this stuff, because the people hosting it were like hunter guys or something. I got a chair made out of snake skin for like five bucks though. And I love it. I also got this roller coaster tycoon game for Scott and a bunch of board games and all of this other stuff to give to my family. Like I said, addiction. Jeana got a map at the same place I got the Roller Coaster Tycoon. It was pretty cool, and they had a really cute little dog there, it was a Westie. At the hunters sale thing, we found this bear paw and Aunt Louise got super excited because she thought that Bruce would love it, and she couldn't wait to give it to him. But then when we got back and did give it to him, he wasn't excited at all. Aunt Louise was very disappointed. She later turned it into a lesson in our class at church about being grateful for what God gives you. Uncle Larry was very excited though. So we gave it to him. By the time that I actually had to go, I was actually kind of sad. The night before I left they threw a surprise party for me, and that was pretty much the nicest thing ever. We had koolaid and popcorn and played Munchkin before watching Sweet Lands, which has got to be one of the cutest movies I have ever seen. I think my mother would love it if she ever saw it. Which she hasn't yet despite my constant prodding. Then the next day I boarded this shuttle bus thing. Five hour drive. But it was air conditioned. I just kind of slept. We had tried to unbuy the thing so that my mother could drive up and get us and we could visit our other cousins which I really wanted to do, but the people wouldn't let us. So I didn't get to visit them. Which was kind of sad because I really wanted to see them, it had been two years and all. Especially Bryson. Because out of all of my cousins we probably get along together the best, not that I don't get along with my cousins, it's just that we well, we have fun together. He actually thinks I'm funny and that's rare. Scott gets jealous, which I find funny. Josh is kind of annoying though. Vance is funny. Carson is well Carson. Anyway, so I rode the bus home and was feeling kind of sad because they gave me this envelope filled with all of these nice letters and I missed them already kind of and thought that it was kind of sad that once I had finally made friends in a ward, I had to leave them. So anyway, my mother picked me up we went to a couple places like Target and then I spent pretty much the rest of the summer unpacking and stuff and also getting my learners permit. Towards the end, my cousin Bob, Boogeyman Bob as Heidi used to refer to him, came back from his mission, so we went back up to Idaho for that. That was nice. It kind of gave me closure. We went to this place called Big Judds, and they had the biggest hamburgers I had ever seen. If you eat a whole one, you get like your name on their wall, but I could barely master a fourth. Bruce ate tons though. Almost an entire one, but not quite. And then we had ice cream cones, that after the fourth of a burger, we could barely stomach. It was very good food. Tons of it. And then we had this Cousin party thing. And we played night games, that didn't go very well at all. Especially since some of us were in flip flops and we were running through alfalfa fields. Very dangerous. And then we watched the funniest episode of Arrested Development. Josh was a pain about it, but everyone else had a good time. Bryson and I got to chat quite a bit, and then the next day we went to church, I got to see my ward friends again, and then we had dinner. Which was basically fried chicken and a bunch of salads and such. It was very windy out there, so many people's food ran away. Bryson and I snuck off to the basement and watched a bunch of Arrested Development. That was fun. And then I rode towards home with him for about an hour, as did Scott, and we talked the entire time. Scott was not pleased. Especially since we basically talked about school the entire time. But then again, pfft. Scott's 'retarded'. On Bones I learned a word for him. It's "Philistine". That was basically my summer. Oh and me and Holly had a major Angel marathon. We watched the first two seasons in like two weeks. Then she stopped. Silly girl.