After a most laborious semester of slaving over projects for ART283 and losing artwork and flash drives, I looked forward to relaxing all Summer. (Because I deserved it, right?) I did work for 85% of the Summer. Here is what I did with the other 15%
April 29th-30th
The single's ward I joined in March went on a trip to the Snowflake Temple. We stayed at a cabin & had a blast. I planned on driving up by myself, but was thrilled to have 4 gentlemen join in on the trip. We all got to know each other almost too well. Once we made it to the cabin, we decided to have a friendly game of Phase 10, which quickly turned into "Truth or Phase 10". Basically, if you didn't get your set in during a round, you would have to tell the group something about yourself. (Mind you I was playing with all boys) Things got interesting quick, and what we didn't already know about each other from the drive up, we quickly learned from equal-opportunity-losing-of-rounds.
The next day we went to the temple and it was a wonderful experience. I got to do twice as many baptisms and no confirmations, to make up for one of the girls who only did confirmations. I love the temple!
May 20th-22nd
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| The Three Amigos |
Rachel's family has some farm property up in Woodruff, Arizona. "Where is Woodruff?" you may be asking yourself. Well, to be honest I had no idea either. It is up by Snowflake. Next to nobody lives there, but we were excited to go "road tripping".
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| Milking "Leche". What an appropriate name for a milking goat |
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| Dead Rabbit |
Let me back up and say that there were 8 of us in a 6 seat truck. The driver, who will remain unnamed to protect his good name, took us to the middle of nowhere. He drove around in circles as fast as the car would allow and caused this huge dust cloud from the dirt as to make the already scary-dark evening more frightening. He seemed to know where he was going, so we let him take us to wherever he felt like. Many dead rabbits later, we called it an evening and shot at soda cans with a shotgun. Apparently, it is really difficult to miss and I am surprisingly good at the "missing the target" business.
At the end of the weekend, Rachel, Jacob and I had a million inside jokes and Rachel's brother, Seth, was in on maybe 12 of them. He felt like he missed out on a bunch. Probably because he was online chatting with Asians. (He served his mission in Taiwan). Seth decided to be more social after this weekend. Which really helped as we got home and decided that we had so much fun that we NEEDED to do that again really soon... keep reading.
May 26th
My buddy Andy pretty much dared me to eat a twinkie wiener sandwich and told me he would take away my fun card if I didn't do it. Ladies & gentlemen... I am sad to say that I am still in possession of my "fun card"
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| Twinkies & hotdogs |
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| Twinkie Wiener Sandwich |
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| Mmmm delicious.... kinda I ended up eating 2 of these bad boys. Not my proudest moment |
Lo, and behold. We did it. We planned an insane California trip in a week. We went to Knott's Berry Farm, Shopping, Church, and New Port Beach.
Rachel had some sweet connections so we got SUPER cheap hotel rooms. The second hotel we stayed at was gorgeous. Our view was to die for. 13th floor cityscape. I love cityscapes at night.
I feel that pictures explain best what happened. (by the way, this was the start of Jachel or Rachob, whichever you think sounds better, but it was still on the DL)
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| The Best of... |
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| Me, Rachel & Jacob at Knott's Berry Farm |
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| Me & Rachel wearing matching-ish swimsuits. Cute? Yes. Planned? No. |
