Spring Break 2012

So about 3 weeks ago we had spring break. and 3 weeks ago i had every intention of writing about it. I'm finally getting to it now. Sorry, it's been an interesting couple of weeks.

So Friday, the last day of school, I had one morning class, which made life wonderful. So that evening we (as in Me, Jordan, Becca and Adam) were headed down to Salt Lake. Both the boys served their missions in England and there was a "chippy" in salt lake they wanted to go to. Which also had a bunch of imported British stuff, such as chocolate. Jordan was a happy person. So after we are done eating at the "chippy" (which Adam gave me and Jordan the wrong address. So it took awhile to get there.) Jordan, Becca and me get in Jordan's car and head to Price, where we will be staying with Jordan's family for the weekend. The funny part of that was originally there wasn't suppose to be anyone around. Then, unexpectedly, some cousins that he had only met once in his life cause they live in (i think) Arkansas, came to visit. So I ended up meeting, literally, his whole family. But it was great fun.

That first Saturday was Jordan's Birthday, which was also great fun. Sunday, we went to Sacrament at Jordans home ward, and later in the day we watched a disney movie...of questionable legality...called Song of the South. Now i'm gonna say something. IT WAS SUCH A GOOD MOVIE!!! WHY IS IT ILLEGAL IN THE US??? oh right, cause people love to find ways to get offended and take everything racist. It was still a great movie. :) Also that night, Adam joined us.

So, Monday morning we pack up the Adams car and we start the drive down to St. George. I thought it was a fairly fun car ride. Me and Jordan taught Becca and Adam that in the song "dynamite" they say "gotta let go" not "Galileo". Passing through Cedar we stopped to see my sister for a few minutes, where of course we ended up wrestling. I didn't know we were going for cheap shots or I would have fought differently. She got me in a choke hold and then literally started choking me, so I had to tap out.

We are almost to St. George when we realize something...we forgot to bring any cooking supplies what-so-ever. we had 2 roasting sticks. we felt like geniuses. So our menu changed a little, although Adam did go buy a griddle and spatula for himself, which he generously shared. So we made it work. Then we spent the remainder of the evening chatting, looking at stars, and staying warm. While we were sleeping I WAS FREEZING!!!!!!! I get cold every spring break, i don't know why i expect this to change. Also, tangent, so the campsite we stayed at had showers...Because the BOYS wanted showers. I laughed inside a little.

So the next morning we wake up, and I go for a walk by the lake. I usually don't invite people along on my morning walks because i never know how long they are going to be, or where I'm going, sometimes people think this means i need time to myself, and sometimes that's true. But so I'm walking, i eventually turn around and walk back to camp. When I get there, Jordan and Adam are gone. I ask Becca where they went, she said they went looking for me. I told her I was just taking a walk. Than I can't remember all the words exchanged, but something about how they weren't to worried about me and Jordan said something about If we hear about a bear mauling, we'll pray for the bear. (i know thats not exactly how it was said, but I can't remember what she said exactly) Then Adam and Jordan get back. I ask them where they were "looking for you, but we found you" they had seen me walking, so they knew i was alive.

Around this time we made lunch and headed into St. George to go play on rocks, and go see the temple. So we get to St. George rock (or whatever it's called) and we go climb around for awhile. I'm not the biggest fan of heights, but i love climbing around on things, it's weird. Me and Adam found this thing that we lovingly call "the hot tub" It was a big circle thing in one of the rocks. We ended up sitting in there and chatting for awhile. Then joined back up with Jordan and Becaa. We then left to go get shakes and go to the temple. The St. George temple has a visitors center which we...visited... we all felt so weird going in there dressed up in camper attire, having just climbed around on rocks. We were so bummed, if we had gone to visitors center first we might would have met President Uchtdorf! (who, p.s., changed ties between every session of conference.) It was so nice to walk around the temple grounds. We then went back to camp and started making dinner. FOIL DINNERS! yum. we chatted, ate s'mores, sang songs. Just had fun. The next morning, i went for another walk, not nearly as long this time. And then we started packing up camp.

So, catching up, it's now Wednesday. And we have 2 more people joining us. Jordan's friend Boyd, and Becca's friend Kelsie. So we get packed and situated in cars and we start heading down to Las Vegas! I was in the car with Jordan and Boyd. (Boyd likes the gas pedal.) We head to the outlet malls. which was funny, the boys wanted to shop so much longer than the girls. I have weird guy friends, but I love them with everything in me and I wouldn't trade them for the world. (plus i make them take me shopping and i start looking much nicer) The original plan in Vegas was to stay in Adams friends backyard, but we felt kind of bad dumping 2 extra people on them, when they were already a family of six. So three of us went and split a hotel room on the strip. (i secretly liked staying in a bed and being warm).

Thursday was spent exploring the strip. Which was fun, we ended up splitting up so the boys could go shopping and the girls went and saw all the free sights. When we all met up again we watched the fountains at the Belagio and WE TOTALLY MET AN IRISH GUY!!! It was cool. We went to go see Fremont Street as well. (i don't actually care if I ever go to Fremont Street again.

Friday morning we got up and went to the Vegas Temple before we headed back home. I love walking the Temple grounds, i can't wait to go inside someday.

Once we got back to Salt Lake we stopped off in Bountiful where I met up with my friend Nelson, he got back from his mission in October and I hadn't got to see him yet. Him and his old mission companion drove me back up to Logan and spent the night.

Saturday my friend Mike got married!!!!!! I WAS SO HAPPY FOR HIM!!!!!!

So that was my spring break, it would have been a much better story if I had remembered to write it three weeks ago while it was still fresh, but it was a very fun trip. I love adventures with friends. :)