Fireworks

I called up Emily on Saturday because earlier in the week we had planned to hangout when finals were over for her. She was trying to decided if she should take her one final (I know, hard, right?) on Wednesday or Thursday of next week. It wasn't until after I had hung up the phone with her that I realized that I leave Wednesday morning, so that regardless of when she was done, I'd already be gone. So, like I said, I called her up on Saturday morning to tell her that we should hang out that day. I had perfect timing. At that moment, she was making plans with some of her friends to go see fireworks that night and she asked if I wanted to come. Fireworks? Was she kidding? Of course I wanted to go!

She had to hang up on me because she had to finish making the plans, but she called me back and it was decided that the two of us would go out to dinner around 6 and then meet up with her friends at 7:30 to drive to Springville.

Around 6 I went to pick up Emily, and it wasn't until I pulled into the driveway of her apartment complex that I realized that she had moved. Luckily her new place wasn't too far from her old place and I was able to correct my mistake in a matter of two minutes or less. She chose to go to Zupa's, which is a really good soup, salad, and sandwich place, but it's one that I've done a lot recently. Let's see, in the last month, I've gone with Anna, Amanda, Ramone, and now Emily. And yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm not lying when I say that they were all in the last 30 days. Good thing there's so much variety because I did enjoy it every time I've gone. Em and I caught up over dinner, but it didn't take nearly as long as I had allotted time for- see, I was thinking that we would go to a more sit-down-ish place and since it was Saturday night, I figured there'd be a long line. No big though, since we were close to my place, we stopped by so she could look at my extra digital camera, seeing if she was interested in buying it. I don't know that she is, but either way- it's either going to make me a little bit of money, or it's going to be my school camera.

She got a text from a boy not too long after showing up at my place, so we had to go back to her apartment so that I could meet him and she could talk to him before we left. He looked like a nice guy, and if he's interested, I give her my go ahead.

I finally found out why there were fireworks on some random day in June once we were headed off. We rode with Matt (there are three Matt's in one apartment, apparently we road with "Cute Matt"), who is from Springville. He explained that every year they have Art City Days which is a week long celebration of Springville. I guess they've got a lot of city pride or something. Anyway, they have parades and dances and city classes and all this stuff all week and then Saturday there's a fair and fireworks show. Thank you Matt for being from Springville and knowing what's what.

It's been raining almost everyday for the past week. It fools me every time though because it will be nice and sunny in the morning, but then it gets cloudy in the afternoon, lightens up again, and then rains in the evening. Tricky tricky. Saturday was no exception. By time we got to the park and set up our tarp, it had started to sprinkle. No big deal, we just folded our stuff up into our tarp while we went a little ways over to play frisbee. It started to rain harder, but we kept on keeping on with our frisbee game. It was so much fun. The two Matts that were there are pretty decent at frisbee so they were doing so cool throws and catches and stuff, and we were just laughing and having a good time.

On the way in, Cute Matt was explaining that it's a tradition to get a scone at the fair, and how he was so excited for them. While we were playing frisbee, he kept on suggesting that we go walk around the fair and get a scone, but no one would take him up on it. We eventually did go though. The scones were big, but they weren't actually that fabulous. So, that's kind of a lame tradition, but I guess not if the people of Springville don't know what they're missing by having tasty scones. Emily, David, Kerri, and I decided to go check out the rest of the place. Emily kept on commenting on how it was like a mini Del Mar Fair. Um, no. Not at all. It was just like four food booths, three game booths, and maybe like six rides. Not at all comparable to the Del Mar Fair. Sometimes Emily is just straight up crazy :o) With such a small array, it didn't take us very long to get all the way around and head back to the group.

Everyone else was set up on the tarp getting ready to play Uno. We helped ourselves into the game and played a few rounds of uno, talked, watched the two Matts wrestle, and basically just screwed around until the fireworks started. They were supposed to go off at dusk, but because of the rain, it got delayed. At 9:30-ish we finally asked some people if the fireworks were even going to still happen, and they said that they should go off at 10, or they'd make an announcement saying they weren't going off. It didn't happen right at 10, but the fireworks did indeed go off. Rowena, Kerri, and I were on the same end of the blankets and we were singing and dancing along to the music that was timed to the fireworks, and we all had glow sticks, and it was a blast. I'm with "Good eyes Matt" though, I more enjoy the boom sound of the fireworks over the music playing. It wasn't until the very end when the music cut out that we got to hear the fireworks shoot off. Yeah, I like that sound.

After the fireworks we packed up and headed back. I had a super fun time and am sad that I'm pretty much never going to hang out with that group of people again. So, as is typical of me this summer, I had a blast doing something completely random and spur of the moment. And, as is typical of me all the time, I brought my camera but failed to take any pictures- yep, sounds like me :o)