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mind that I'm writing about the 4th on the 8th. Hey, it could be worse, right? Like my friend wrote me in the beginning of June and I still haven't written her back yet.
I had so much fun on the 4th of July, but it sure was a long day. It started out with the "First of the Fourth" which was a midnight bar-be-que. That was pretty fun. We unchained the grill on the patio so that we could move it away from the buildings full of people sleeping. We took the grill out in the parking lot and watched some amazing lightning go off somewhere in the distance. As we talked and ate, the lightning got closer and closer. It was so awesome. It lit up the whole sky, and it apparently set off some sort of siren that echoed off the apartment complex because Steve and I both swore it was coming from opposite directions. Finally, not only did the lightning catch up to us, but so did the rain. It started out as a light sprinkle, but that didn't last long. Luckil
y we were all done eating and could start to rap up the food before the real rain hit. And oh man did it hit! The sprinkles didn't last very long, pretty soon after it sprinkled, it poured. It didn't phase us too much, but we did decide to move everything back. We moved the tables and grill back onto the patio. Some of the people stayed out to "frolic" in the rain, but Alysha and I headed back inside once everything was cleaned up.
The rain really wasn't that cold, but when we walked into our air conditioned apartment, we were shivering. We hurried up and changed into warm pajamas and got ready for bed. Except that in the process of getting ready for bed, Alysha and I both peeked our heads out into the hall to inform the other one that we weren't tired yet. We knew we had to wake up early and so it wasn't smart to stay up, but there was no way we were going to bed right then. We decided that we would move our mattresses out into the living room for a little slumber party and turn on a movie that we could fall asleep to. So we did. We put on "A Knight's Tale" and I didn't last a super long time before I fell asleep, but it was fun.
We woke up early because Alysha wanted to go to Macy's grocery store to get a free french toast breakfast before going to work, and I was going to accompany her to breakfast and then head back to meet up with some people for the parade. We got up and went to breakfast. Once we got to the front of the line, we only had 5 or so minutes to eat so we scarfed down our food and then went our separate ways.
When I got back I went out to the patio to meet up with some people in the ward so that we could go watch the parade. I'm not going to lie, the parade wasn't all that great. The beginning wa
s TERRIBLE, it was just emergency vehicles with their sirens on honking their horns. It was torture. It started to get better after that, but still, not super fantastic. The best float was the MTC float with a whole trail of missionaries behind it. I saw Elder Richardson (one of the Elders that comes over to teach Alysha) and missed the next float because I was so excited to text Alysha to tell her that Elder Richardson was in the parade.
After the parade a smaller group of us went down town to check out the carnival/fair thing going on. That for sure was not fun. It was just a bunch of shops set up, but I wasn't interested in buying anything from them. In all honesty, out of the four of us that went, I'm pretty sure only one guy enjoyed himself while the others of us were waiting for it to be over.
After the shop thing we went to, I came back home, called to wish Mom a happy birthday, did something else, and napped. I was so tired. After 15 minutes or so I heard Alysha come home, and I announced that she didn't have to try too hard to be quiet because I was already up. But, as soon as she dropped off her stuff, we both napped (since our beds were still out in the living room).
We woke up with enough time to grab a quick bite to eat and head up to the "Y". Our next 4th of July activity was to put on blue clothes and hike the "Y" where we would meet up with other people wearing blue, and others wearing red and all of us together would turn the "Y" into an American Flag. Poor Alysha is not so great at the whole hiking thing. She had a jacket tied around her waist and I would hold onto the ends of it and honestly pull her up the mountain at steep areas. Poor girl, she did not thoroughly enjoy that hike. Once we got up there, I helped the people set up, and talked to some of the people that were there. It turns out that two people from the ward I lived in the Spring term after my freshman year were there, and one of them recognized me (I didn't see the other one). We waited a while before it was finally time for everyone to get into places. There were not as many people there as had signed up for it, or as many people as we really needed, but apparently it still looked pretty good. It sounds like they want to keep doing this every year (this was the first time it'd been done) and so hopefully next year it will look better because more people will show up.
Once we were done taking pictures, we had some serious time to kill before the fireworks starte
d. Alysha and I just talked, listened to some music, watched the sun go down, and watched the lightning striking off in the distance. Eventually the fireworks started. I have to admit, it wasn't as cool as I thought it would be to watch them from up high. Fireworks are more impressive when they are large and above you. Oops. Oh well, it was still good. After the fireworks show was over, it was time to hike back down. I had to hold Alysha's arm the whole time because she is not very steady and she for sure would have slid down the mountain.
I was a little worried about the traffic getting home because everyone would be leaving the Stadium of Fire, plus other people who were just camped out watching the fireworks. We headed out, and in the beginning it wasn't so bad, so I was pretty hopeful. Then we hit a dead stop. It took us over an hour to go the two miles we had left to get home. I was NOT happy about that one.
As soon as we got back I showered and collapsed on my bed (still in the living room), making sure to set my alarm first so that I wouldn't miss church. I was so exhausted that I was able to fall asleep without a problem, but I guess that I rejuvenated pretty quickly because early in the morning, I woke up because Alysha was snoring like an animal. If I had really been that exhausted, I would have been able to ignore it, that's why I say that my body regenerated pretty well. Alysha woke me up with her snoring in Florida too, so she told me I had permission to shake her a little to wake her up. I tried that. It didn't work. I tried gently nudging her with my leg- NOTHING. I tried poking her in the arm- NOTHING. Then I tried shaking her a little- still NOTHING. Finally I put my hand up against her mouth (she could still breath, don't worry, I did it super lightly and with the back of my hand so it wasn't sealed on). She stop
ped snoring and started waking up a little and so I turned over, but couldn't help but laugh that that was what finally did it. The softest touch of all and that's what woke her up. She stopped snoring long enough for me to fall back asleep, but it took me a while because I was almost fully awake with all the effort it took to shut her up :o)
So, like I said, it was a super long, super fun Fourth of July!
mind that I'm writing about the 4th on the 8th. Hey, it could be worse, right? Like my friend wrote me in the beginning of June and I still haven't written her back yet.I had so much fun on the 4th of July, but it sure was a long day. It started out with the "First of the Fourth" which was a midnight bar-be-que. That was pretty fun. We unchained the grill on the patio so that we could move it away from the buildings full of people sleeping. We took the grill out in the parking lot and watched some amazing lightning go off somewhere in the distance. As we talked and ate, the lightning got closer and closer. It was so awesome. It lit up the whole sky, and it apparently set off some sort of siren that echoed off the apartment complex because Steve and I both swore it was coming from opposite directions. Finally, not only did the lightning catch up to us, but so did the rain. It started out as a light sprinkle, but that didn't last long. Luckil
y we were all done eating and could start to rap up the food before the real rain hit. And oh man did it hit! The sprinkles didn't last very long, pretty soon after it sprinkled, it poured. It didn't phase us too much, but we did decide to move everything back. We moved the tables and grill back onto the patio. Some of the people stayed out to "frolic" in the rain, but Alysha and I headed back inside once everything was cleaned up.The rain really wasn't that cold, but when we walked into our air conditioned apartment, we were shivering. We hurried up and changed into warm pajamas and got ready for bed. Except that in the process of getting ready for bed, Alysha and I both peeked our heads out into the hall to inform the other one that we weren't tired yet. We knew we had to wake up early and so it wasn't smart to stay up, but there was no way we were going to bed right then. We decided that we would move our mattresses out into the living room for a little slumber party and turn on a movie that we could fall asleep to. So we did. We put on "A Knight's Tale" and I didn't last a super long time before I fell asleep, but it was fun.
We woke up early because Alysha wanted to go to Macy's grocery store to get a free french toast breakfast before going to work, and I was going to accompany her to breakfast and then head back to meet up with some people for the parade. We got up and went to breakfast. Once we got to the front of the line, we only had 5 or so minutes to eat so we scarfed down our food and then went our separate ways.
When I got back I went out to the patio to meet up with some people in the ward so that we could go watch the parade. I'm not going to lie, the parade wasn't all that great. The beginning wa
s TERRIBLE, it was just emergency vehicles with their sirens on honking their horns. It was torture. It started to get better after that, but still, not super fantastic. The best float was the MTC float with a whole trail of missionaries behind it. I saw Elder Richardson (one of the Elders that comes over to teach Alysha) and missed the next float because I was so excited to text Alysha to tell her that Elder Richardson was in the parade.After the parade a smaller group of us went down town to check out the carnival/fair thing going on. That for sure was not fun. It was just a bunch of shops set up, but I wasn't interested in buying anything from them. In all honesty, out of the four of us that went, I'm pretty sure only one guy enjoyed himself while the others of us were waiting for it to be over.
After the shop thing we went to, I came back home, called to wish Mom a happy birthday, did something else, and napped. I was so tired. After 15 minutes or so I heard Alysha come home, and I announced that she didn't have to try too hard to be quiet because I was already up. But, as soon as she dropped off her stuff, we both napped (since our beds were still out in the living room).
We woke up with enough time to grab a quick bite to eat and head up to the "Y". Our next 4th of July activity was to put on blue clothes and hike the "Y" where we would meet up with other people wearing blue, and others wearing red and all of us together would turn the "Y" into an American Flag. Poor Alysha is not so great at the whole hiking thing. She had a jacket tied around her waist and I would hold onto the ends of it and honestly pull her up the mountain at steep areas. Poor girl, she did not thoroughly enjoy that hike. Once we got up there, I helped the people set up, and talked to some of the people that were there. It turns out that two people from the ward I lived in the Spring term after my freshman year were there, and one of them recognized me (I didn't see the other one). We waited a while before it was finally time for everyone to get into places. There were not as many people there as had signed up for it, or as many people as we really needed, but apparently it still looked pretty good. It sounds like they want to keep doing this every year (this was the first time it'd been done) and so hopefully next year it will look better because more people will show up.
Once we were done taking pictures, we had some serious time to kill before the fireworks starte
d. Alysha and I just talked, listened to some music, watched the sun go down, and watched the lightning striking off in the distance. Eventually the fireworks started. I have to admit, it wasn't as cool as I thought it would be to watch them from up high. Fireworks are more impressive when they are large and above you. Oops. Oh well, it was still good. After the fireworks show was over, it was time to hike back down. I had to hold Alysha's arm the whole time because she is not very steady and she for sure would have slid down the mountain.I was a little worried about the traffic getting home because everyone would be leaving the Stadium of Fire, plus other people who were just camped out watching the fireworks. We headed out, and in the beginning it wasn't so bad, so I was pretty hopeful. Then we hit a dead stop. It took us over an hour to go the two miles we had left to get home. I was NOT happy about that one.
As soon as we got back I showered and collapsed on my bed (still in the living room), making sure to set my alarm first so that I wouldn't miss church. I was so exhausted that I was able to fall asleep without a problem, but I guess that I rejuvenated pretty quickly because early in the morning, I woke up because Alysha was snoring like an animal. If I had really been that exhausted, I would have been able to ignore it, that's why I say that my body regenerated pretty well. Alysha woke me up with her snoring in Florida too, so she told me I had permission to shake her a little to wake her up. I tried that. It didn't work. I tried gently nudging her with my leg- NOTHING. I tried poking her in the arm- NOTHING. Then I tried shaking her a little- still NOTHING. Finally I put my hand up against her mouth (she could still breath, don't worry, I did it super lightly and with the back of my hand so it wasn't sealed on). She stop
ped snoring and started waking up a little and so I turned over, but couldn't help but laugh that that was what finally did it. The softest touch of all and that's what woke her up. She stopped snoring long enough for me to fall back asleep, but it took me a while because I was almost fully awake with all the effort it took to shut her up :o)So, like I said, it was a super long, super fun Fourth of July!
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