Orcas Island Encampment Project '05

That's the offical name. No one really calls it that. I am tired, sore, bruised, and sick from my week at Orcas. I had an AWESOME time! Jeffrey is such a sweetheart! He's also stubborn as all get out and obstinate at times. So what else is new, right? (All the boys are like that.) On to my adventures on Orcas. On Tuesday we take speed boats to another smaller island near Orcas called Matia Island. The speed boat I was in along with two other mentor/child groups and Greg broke down and we were stranded in the ocean for 20 minutes. It was sooo fun! On Matia we have to go down a cliff via a rope. I HATE that part! I always slide down the cliff. ALWAYS! I was wearing jeans so all I got was dirty and bruised. Then we have to go up a bunch of rocks to get to the tide pools. That was fun. Not. To get out of the tide pool place and back to the trail, you have to climb up the rocks. I got almost to the top and slid back down. Thank God Sam caught me and lowered me to the rocks beneath me. (Sam is Greg's son and was on support staff. Greg is the camp director.) *spacing for a few minutes due to being extremely tired* Anyways, the Yakima charter bus broke down Tuesday night on Orcas and wasn't up and running until Thursday morning when we had to leave Orcas. (Praise the Lord!) Tuesday night it rained cats and dogs so we moved all our outdoor stuff inside.Wednesday we hike around Cascade Lake which is right next to the camp where we stay. Wednesday night all the mentors dress up like clowns for dinner for our clown night. That is my absolute favorite part of camp! This year I looked adorable if I do say so myself. And we have speakers come and talk to the boys around the camp fire after dinner. This year they were two firefighters (indoor & outdoor), a retired Navy Lt, and a Washington State Patrolman. The firefighter let all the boys try on her suit. It was sooo cute! Thursday we went to the zoo. By dinner time most of us mentors were at our breaking point. Good thing Thursday night is mentor's night out. We go to Funtasia for like 4-5 hours. On the way there the Kennewick bus (which all 42 mentors and support staff were in), broke down and started rolling backwards on a hill in the middle of Seattle! *laugh* So we backed into a parking lot and waited for the Yakima bus to come get us. Friday we got dropped off at the monorail which we road to the space needle and then walked to the science center. It's pretty funny that I'd never been to any of those places including the zoo until I became a mentor 4 years ago. On way back to Yakima Jeffrey slept 'cause he was tired and he gets bus sick, so I got to sleep too. (That's good 'cause my voice was almost gone.) When we got back to 1st Pres Julie was there to pick me up and Jeffrey's dad was there to pick him up. (He actually wanted to take Jeffrey before the closing ceremony, but Greg said no although Jeffrey's dad told me Greg said he could.)
So today I'm going to do nothing except call the lady I'm going to be plant sitting for and wait for my parents to come home from Vermont. I know you called while I was on Orcas Bonnie. I'll call you when I have more of a voice. Or perhaps tomorrow since that's your 20th birthday and all. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Talk to yall later. (When I have a voice, ya know?)

What, no STOP sign?

This morning as Val and I were on our way to the gym to workout, we noticed a severe lacking of a STOP sign at the intersection of Meadowbrook and 79th. We saw it in the ditch. The metal was bent so that it looked as if it were in lots of pain and the actual sign was mangled and had black sploches on it. Who runs into a STOP sign? I mean, really? (Taking out the drunk people of course.)
In other more interesting news, this afternoon I went to go see Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Good movie! Action and comedy. I'm not usually an action kinda girl 'cause it brings on hand cluching and nail biting. But it was good. I recomend it. Granted it does have lots of people getting shot and dying, but they're all bad guys just like in the disney movies. (That makes it okay in my book.) There's car chases, which are always entertaining, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith try to kill each other at one point and in the process demolish their house. (And it was such a nice house too!)

Summer is Offically Here!!!!!

I just finished my last final!!!!! (*victory dance*) I'm sooo happy! No more something, no more books, no more teachers dirty looks! Okay that's so 5th grade and I don't even know all of it, but that's okay 'cause I'm done until next September! I'm kind of mad at my self 'cause it was a math final and I forgot a few important items that messed up like three-five of the questions for sure. Then you have to add in the stupid mistakes everyone ALWAYS makes. *sigh*
But it's okay 'cause now I get to look forward to 10:30 this morning! I'm meeting a fellow mentor & friend at Craft Warehouse where we will be getting paints, iron ons etc to put on tshirts for the opening ceremony for Orcas! It'll be tons of fun 'cause we're going to my house to put them together so we'll get to hang out!
And there's more to look forward to! On Thursday night Anna, Kimmie and Cherizey are coming to my house so we can make dinner like we did a few weeks ago at Anna's house. (This time I WILL NOT be embarrassed by Anna's mom!) So ha! I forget exactly what main dish we're making, but it's Italian so yeah! And I've never had homemade cream puffs, so we're making those too! Cherize you need to bring your musica 'cause you have better and more stuff than me and someone could bring Anastsia for me to borrow if they felt so inclined.
On the down side, I still am looking for a job. I HATE job hunting! It really sucks! But if I have no job I will be bored out of my mind this summer! Plus I won't make any money. But really it's just the bored part. Id like to work at a daycare 'cause I have experience with kids and I have the CPR cards etc that you need plus I'm pretty sure I'd suck at anything retail so they'd fire me IF I got the job in the first place. (I think I called the daycare near your house yesterday Anna and they aren't hiring.) I'll look tonight or tomorrow. I think I've called about half the daycares in Yakima as of now. So prayer that I could find a job would be totally awesome.

Summer is almost here!

Okay, today I started the day out right by my mom getting mad at me! It was sooo dumb! My sis Julie took her car to get fixed at our mechanic Cam's place yesterday. So she needed a ride to and from work today. I learned all of this a half hour before I needed to leave for school. Oh and did I mention I was suppose to give her a ride? Yeah. My parents are just great like that. So I told my dad I was NOT going to take Julie to work 'cause we had seminar in history and I wanted to be early to go over the notes with my fellow classmates. My dad was okay with this since I'd just found out, but my mom was pissed. Like it was my fault that she now had to take Julie to work therefore disrupting her morning schedule. (Julie messes up everyone's schedule 'cause she DOES NOT know how to be on time!) Whatever.
Anyways, I turned in a job app at La Petite Childcare Center this morning. They are hiring sooo cross your fingers!
In other news we have a psych test tomorrow. Our last until our final on Tuesday. So Anna I don't have a final on Monday. Do you? If not we could study for psych huh? We could invite Stover too. Your house, my house. I don't really care Banana girl.
Oh and my cousin Ellie mgot engaged on Moday night!!!! It was sooo cute. Her boyfriend Corey took her on a picinic and asked her to stand up. She asked him if there was a bug on her. You might think that was a strange reaction, but about a year ago he took her on a picinic and she thought he was going to propose, but alas, she had a bug on her. This time he proposed. So as her sis Anna said "They've come full circle." (Anna's getting married next month.) As all the aunts and uncles said Monday night, they're dropping like flies, they're all getting married-remember when we got married?, they grow up so fast etc etc.
Hungry for lunch so see ya slater!