Long Over Due

Kristi's friend failed again because one of her horses was sick and the other one had been sent off to go breed. Kristi has another friend who has horses so I had her call that girl to see if we could go Wednesday or Thursday afternoon. That girl wasn't able to go either so it turns out that I didn't get to go riding this trip. Such the disappointment :o(

Again, because the horse back riding fell through, we had to come up with some other plans for Tuesday. The plans for the bonfire had changed. We were no longer having by the river or at the caves, we were going to have it at some one's grandpa's land. Well, because we weren't having it at the ice caves, I really wanted to go check them out. Kristi said that we needed a truck because the roads were going to be like the ones down by the river. Well luckily Kristi's brother Steven showed up that day for a visit. Steven has a truck. Kristi didn't want to ask him, so I did. He said we could take it, but Kristi didn't want to go. WHAT?! Laaaame.

Instead of doing something fun and adventurous like exploring ice caves, we helped her mom clean out her cake mix cabinet. That was entertaining however, and a little on the gross side. Apparently her mom had recently gotten an e-mail that warned her that cake batter has yeast in it and so when it passes the expiration date, it starts growing mold. Well, she had a lot of cake mix in her cabinets and she decided to see how old it was to see if she needed to throw it out. Um... yeah... I think out of at least 30 boxes, she was able to keep 2. And it's not like they had just expired, oh no. Most of the cake mix boxes were from 2006, and I think the oldest one we found had expired in 2004. That's 5 years old. First of all, who keeps cake mix for 5 years, and who keeps buying more when there are already enough in the cabinet? The best part was that as Kristi was trying to throw them all away, her mom was trying to keep them, saying that it was too much to throw away, it was a waste to throw all of them away. Kristi reminded her about the e-mail and then took the kitchen trash out to the outside garbage just to make sure that her mom didn't try to remove them from the trash and put them back up in the cabinet.

Although that was the biggest paragraph of my blog, the event didn't take all that long, and we still had nothing to do. I had brought my new bathing suit because Kristi told me that we would go hot tubbing. I'm not quite sure why she told me we would go hot tubbing though because as soon as I got there she informed me that there were no hot tubs in Idaho. WHAT?! But, I still put my bathing suit to use that trip because I suggested that we go sun bathing out on the trampoline. My new suit is lower than my old one, and so I needed to try to even out the colors on my chest and get rid of that harsh line of contrasting exotic tan and bright white. We took music and books out to the trampoline and I was able to finish the book I had brought up with me. (Again, I do NOT recommend that anyone read I am Morgan le Fay) It's sad, I keep on reading books that people suggest to me, and they turn out to be not so hot.

And since we were on a trampoline, it's not like I could just not jump on it. I had even warned Kristi on the way out that there was no way that I could not jump on the trampoline once we were out there. That was super fun. Although I did have to be a little careful while jumping seeing as my suit is pretty low. But no worries, I did not flash a soul. Go me :o)

We did a whole lot of nothing after that before it was time for the bonfire. The girl's grandpa's house (where we had the bonfire) was really nice. His house is right on the river and there's a fire pit down the hill and, I don't know, it was just really pretty. We made tin foil dinners first thing and just sat around and talked. Of course, I'm not the most social one in group settings and so I sat there and listened while everyone else talked, but it was good conversation, so I had fun. After dinner we started roasting star bursts. I'd never heard of it before, but it turns out that they are really good. Kristi's friend Brandon fixed me one and that was the only one I got because then people started playing with the fire and contaminating it. For example, throwing Styrofoam into it, but it was especially the hairspray that made people stop roasting things.

Someone ran up and grabbed a can of hairspray out of the house and one of the little "look at me" girls (you know the type, they laugh too high and too loud, their hair is also too high, and they wear too much makeup) took a hold of it and was squealing every time she sprayed it. One of the boys suggested throwing the whole can into the fire and we were all on board. We all ran up the hill and left the can of hair spray with the giggly girl who promised that she'd be able to throw it in and run away in time. She did not throw it very well because we were all standing up top and nothing was happening. Brave old, stupid old Drew decided that he was going to go down there and see what was going wrong. He picked up the shovel and knocked the can. He then realized that it was still full of spray and so his next ingenious idea was to throw the shovel like a javelin at the can. That made it go off alright. But poor Drew didn't get to see the pyrotechnics because he had to dive, duck, and cover on the ground. It was pretty sweet. Sparks flew everywhere. When we went back down to the fire pit, we had to stamp out some live sparks and we found that plenty of things had gotten little holes burned into them. The starburst bag, the newspaper that was sitting on the bench, some grocery bags, and oh, don't forget that Drew had a small hole burned into his shirt! Oh, good times, good times.

Kristi and I had carpooled with Brandon, and he had brought his gun with him, but we didn't get around to shooting it for some reason. I suggested that we pull off somewhere and shoot for a little bit, but apparently it was too dark. I don't really know what difference that makes because even if I could see a target, it's not like I'd hit it or anything. But whatev'. So he dropped us off, and then it was time for beddy-by. Especially since Kristi had class early the next morning and I was going to get up right along with her.