Memorial Day and So On

So this is how my Memorial Day started out... Midnight, Turnbow's House, playing apples to apples... Taps comes on to the radio and Courtney starts making fun of the radio station for playing slow and lame music and questions why the country radio station would play a song like that. Then Tyler jumps in a make fun of her about not being thankful for all the people who died for us. The funny thing was that I was thinking the same thing about the radio station until Tyler reminded us. I am a terrible person.

Then we went home and I slept in... like really slept in. IT WAS GREAT!!! Thank you Memorial Day! There was no studying or working what-so-ever! Once Brian came back from Colorado and Matt got off practice (and Nicole and I got out of bed ;-) we took off for our loverly Memorial Day Adventures. The first one... swimming... SHOT DOWN! Only in Utah would there be freezing rain on Memorial Day. Then we tried to go to Trafalga and go miniature golfing... Unfortunately everyone and their dog had that exact same idea. So since we didn't want to wait 3o mins to play a very very slow game of mini golf, we headed to the Nickle Cade! I love the Nickle Cade. For those of you who haven't gone, it is a fun cheap way to play here in Provo. We did about 2o car races against each other and Nicole and I even completely beat all the levels on one of the games. :-) So after a few hours and 5 dollars spent in Nickles we collected our prizes and took off to get free snow cones. Yum! Our last adventure of the day was spent at an All American Restaurant, Owls... ;-D I love love love their hot wings and curly fries, it is an addiction.

The next day I didn't have class so Brian, Nicole and I woke up bright and early to go on our weekly hike. (We are all training to hike Timpanogos Mountain without dying on it or going annoyingly slow). Our hike started at the beginning of Rock Canyon and up the backside of Squaw Peak to the very tip top. This was surprisingly a fairly hard hike for me. We were walking on shale for the first third and then a fairly steep muddy incline for the remainder of the hike. My ankles were not handling it too well, but luckily I only rolled my right ankle twice. Which is good compared to the eight times that I rolled it hiking the Y the first time. I have itty bitty weakling ankles. Anyways... So the view was the top was pretty AMAZING! To the east was sheer wilderness and a large mountain range, to the south was a huge cliff with a view of rock canyon and the Y mountain, to the west was Provo and Utah Lake and to the North was an amazing view of our goal Timpanogos. I will post some pictures on here as soon as I get them downloaded to my computer. Then we had to head down quickly because Nicole had to work. So we actually ran the 3 miles down the mountain and sang "Colors of the Winds". Haha.

This is Mt. Timpanogos... Yeah it's BIG!

Now today reality hit... school... school that is ending in about 2 weeks aka crunch time!. I had 5 hours of classes today and a 2 hour test review. I also had to finish writing 3 more pages on my rhetorical analysis due at 4, take 2 grammar quizzes, 1 physiology lab quiz and 1 physiology class quiz. Oh plus 4 hours of custodial work before I had to do all this. It is weird to me that Spring Term is almost over... only 2 more essays and 3 more tests and I am free! Oh wait... THREE days later Summer term starts bringing another chemistry class and Book of Mormon... Fun... But I am not gonna think about that right now. So yeah, now I am at Matt's helping Brian finish his stupid American Heritage essay and feeling sad about the fact that I am soo not going to be in bed by 10 tonight. Yeah I enjoy my 10 'clock bed time, makes me a more happy person... trust me. :-)