Childhood Dream Come True

Ever since I was a little girl I have had a dream... Back in the days when I was horse crazy (still am a little bit) I always wanted to go swimming with the horses. I had read it in a book somewhere and thought it would be THE greatest thing EVER. Well after missing it twice this summer I finally got to go. I felt like a kid in a candy shop. Probably looked like one too.

The other thing I have always wanted to do was ride bareback. Just so you know this isn't as luxurious as once thought. In fact it's down right painful! I was riding Elmer... And let me just stop and say, whoever named that horse, that is a terrible name! It's like sentencing him to his death. He's also, and I'm sorry to say this, a very ugly horse as you may see in some of the pictures. Really he's not bad from a distance or if he's not wet.

But anyway, as I was saying... Oh the pain! Elmer's spine happens to protrude from his back by about 2 inches. It gives you the feeling of a major wedgie. (I won't get into the details) Elmer happens to be one of our more spirited horses and prances. Now I'm bouncing up and down. Then when we neared the lake Kristi says "last one to the lake is a rotten egg" Elmer senses the excitement and takes off across the fiel at a trot/canter. This, just in case you aren't following is MAJOR PAIN! Ok ok.. it was worth it though cause I was having a blast. All I lacked was the war paint cause I was doin the whole grab the mane, put your head down and ride indian style type of thing. Let's just say I'm glad I'm not a boy. :)

When we finally got to the lake a whole boat full of kids had just pulled in and the horses didn't too much like that so we had quite the time trying to get them in at first. Duke didn't have any problems though. ( he's the one on the far right) The kids on the boat thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever seen and I'm thinking "ha ha! now I'm the one doing it and you're the one wishing!" I know I'm terrible but one has to revel in their glory once in awhile.

When they finally got in, boy was it great! After a few trys I got Elmer to actually swim. It's pretty pointless to try to stay sitting upright. They swim fast enough that your legs slide right out from under you and you end up just holding onto their mane and gliding along until they hit ground. Once Elmer would come above water I'm sure I looked pretty interesting with my arms around his neck, laying on top of him with my legs bent in the air.

It was a sad thing when it was time to go. Elmer the ever energized just HAD to prance all the way back to the barn. I will never forgive him for that. As an update, no I cannot walk. You have to use your legs to balance so they get quite a work out, even without the bouncing up and down on a horses spine. Add the fact that I went slalom skiing and knee boarding this morning, I don't really feel like moving. Which is apparently the reason that I am going out one more time before I leave tomorrow. I'm actually excited. I'll miss camp like crazy. I mean how many places can you do stuff like this on your time off? And, even though its been me and mostly boys cause Jessie and Kristi keep leaving, I'll miss all the people my age. What I'm really looking forward to is the food though. Stuff me Mom, I'm coming home!

There's a Battle Goin On

I finally managed to get ahold of the pictures from battle tubing so I thought I'd share. The camera wasn't very good so be forewarned. Even though these are really from last week, you might as well count them for this week, because it seems to be our evening entertainment a lot of times.

Basically the idea is to get the other team off of their tube. If you have to jump onto the other one then so be it. However most of the time that gets YOU kicked off. Be prepared to take a beating whatever the situation though. (Especially with 6 guys)

Desmond decides to sacrifice his body for the team and acts a a bridge between the two tubes for a good 5 minutes.

I just want to share that I'm stupid. If you noticed I wasn't in the first two pictures because I had a rather large burn from mystery dinner that was giving me some trouble. I had decided to stay out of the water for that purpose. Tubing will burn your elbows without them being burned already. Yeah so I submitted to peer pressure and got out there with the guys cause it's just so much fun! Here Jonathan and I are making sure my arm's still attached.

Like I said.. Bad camera. But I'm the one in the middle kicking. Legs were made specifically for this game I'm telling you. Well atleast for me because when you're playing with a bunch of guys using the strongest part of your body is essential.

Nice sunset to make a crazed situation seem tranquil. Josh is about to jump on the already gigantic pile, while I lay there on the side laughing at them all.

And finally... The guys get the courage up to see who's gonna grab the other one first. We won... Just so you know... I was the only one from my team who stayed on. But ok ok, I'm willing to submit to the fact that they were being nice to the only girl. I am really starting to miss my own sex after these two weeks. (even though there happens to be four of us this week, I never see them and they certainly don't come to my rescue) Poor Dad. I don't know how you do it all the time.

Interesting Life

So I've decided that cars are a tad bit dangerous. Saturday night Jen was standing talking to me in our drive way when all of the sudden I notice that her headlights are moving towards me. Yeah that's right her car was rolling. Stephanie played superman and sprang into the rolling car and hit the breaks. I could just see the car hitting either us or my mom's car behind us.

THEN the killer... I was driving back (in the right lane) to camp when all of the sudden I noticed a car coming up on me. His back bumper was about at my head and he was probably inches away. I slammed on my breaks, swerved, and hit the horn but he just kept going. I mean he went all the way off the road. He hit that strip thing and that's when I got it. He had been sleeping. He over corrected and went back in front of me and a semi, went in to the median and started spinning, probably missed a tree by about a foot. If he'd hit the tree he would have been in some serious pain. I ended up calling 911 which I have never done before so that was an experience. Desmond said he saw the car coming close to us before I did and wondered what I was doing and Jonathan woke up when I swerved on to the strip thing wondering why I couldn't stay on the road. I see they both have confidence in my driving! :)

Got back and watched a movie, laughed the whole way through it. Then about 10 of us played slave. Never played it before but it's pretty fun actually. I managed to be King twice.

Telemarketers.... I had one call this morning. Most annoying guy I've ever talked to in my life. He wanted me to say that I was the business manager, which I'm not, so he probably asked me "but you are the business manager aren't you? you are in charge right?" about ten times. He had confidential information apparently. Yeah whatever. Finally i gave him to Glenn who got rid of him, only for him to call back 20 min later and go through the whole process again. "NO! I'M NOT THE BUSINESS MANAGER!" hmmmmm

Clowning Around Downtown

We got a much needed weekend off so Jonathan and Desmond came home with me. It's been pretty fun. Jenn even came over and Grace dropped by for a few minutes. Anway, this afternoon the three of us went down town and enjoyed taking some fun pictures...

What a man

What happens if I pull this?


The fountains were off due to the water shortage so we thought we'd help it out.

Desmond finds a friend

Desmond's friend didn't like us so much.

Terrorists!

I'm not sure exactly why I'm starting this. If you don't know I have a Myspace so there's no need for two of these really. But to be honest I like this blog format much better and the only reason I have Myspace is to keep in touch with people. SOOOO here it is.


Last night Church of God had this crazy game and the NPR staff got to be the terrorists. Se Katie, Jenn, and I got dressed up for the occaision.



Our station was getting water through pool noodles to put out the smoke bomb that was supposed to be some toxic gas. Gotta say the smoke bombs were pretty cool. Except when on caught on fire. :) The things I'm learning this summer, I swear.