So far in Alaska...

Well, here we are in Alaska!  It has been rainy and wonderful since we got here. I don't know what it is about Alaska that makes me able to withstand the cold, but I love it! It might have something to do with the extra clothes I always wear. I even brought my awesome slippers that Chris got me for Christmas so I never get too cold.

I don't have any pictures yet but I will get them off of my moms camera sometime this week and show everyone the cabin! We went out there Thursday -Saturday and worked on cutting down a few trees and also debarking them. I actually sat around more than anythinig and read Twilight for like the fourth time. I do love that book. I don't have the second one but my sister does and so does my sister in law so I should be able to borrow that and maybe on August first go to one of those midnight "parties" that are happening all over the world for the releasing of the book. I really look forward to reading it!

As for what else I am planning on doing while I am here, I don't know. I think tomorrow if Chris is feeling better we will go hiking and I would like to go camping again but we will see. Sometimes it isn't that much fun camping when it is all rainy out, which unfortunately it is raining plenty here! I still really like the rain though! I would also like to go shopping at Value Village and get some new clothes! I love that place...

Anyway, life is good and Chris and I are having fun while up in Alaska. I hope you all are doing well too! 

The End.

This is it! I only have 2 days left as a college student! Tomorrow I still have my weight training class and also my water aerobics class. In weight training I will still work out and become buffer but in water aerobics we have to do these stupid nutrition reports. I presented mine on Tuesday so I just have to go because if I skip one more time I fail the class. :) Then I will come home and play with my mom and dad. Play might be the wrong word... I don't really know what to do with them here. I was thinking about taking them to Rigby lake and letting them see the sun since I hear Alaska has been very cold and cloudy this summer. It has been cooler here in Idaho than it was the last yew years but it BUt it might be nice to play in water. I am really going to miss swimming... Today was my last day of my swimming class and we played water polo. I love the game but it is hard to play it with people who don't know how to play or don't want to. I did really well though. I can't actually throw the ball and score but I am really good at getting in the way of people who are trying to score on my team! I like to splash a lot... Anyway, it was great and I am going to miss the instructor, Bert. She has been my teacher the last 2 times I took the class and she makes it a lot of fun where as the teacher before her just made the class hard and miserable.

Anyway, on Friday I graduate! Chris still has a final that day and I just have to turn in my take home final for evolution that I am 2/3 of the way done with but the last 1/3 shouldn't take more than 45 minutes. I was just tired of doing it so I didn't finish it today. I think we are going to have a picnic dinner in the park for our graduation dinner. I don't know what else to do and Rexburg doesn't have any nice restaurants that I would want to go to so I am going to talk to mom and dad and see if when we get to Alaska we can have a nice dinner that makes up for the graduation dinner! Like going to Bennie Hannas or however you spell it. I have never been there but I have heard really good things about it. After our picnic dinner we have commencement where the general relief society president will be speaking. It is kind of sad how the treat the summer kids here at BYUI. Not that I don't want to listen to her, but if it was fall or winter they usually get one of the 12 to come and give the commencment speech. Oh well! And tehn we have convocation where each college walks but in different locations. Chris was going to walk in some other building but he is going to walk with my department of agriculture and life sciences in the Kirkham auditorium. After we walk across the stage I don't know what we will do... I really haven't done much here in Rexburg in the last 2 years and I don't think mom and dad will want to do most of what I do. Like bike riding or slacklining or swimming or going to the gym... Not to mention it will be late at night.

The next morning mom and dad take off at like 5 to fly to Seattle for a family reunion and then on Monday Chris and I will be flying to Alaska for a nice 2 week break! It is going to be great. Then we come back to Idaho for a few weeks and then we move to Colorado. Hopefully we will get all of that planned out relatively soon but if not, pray for us!

My day today

So, I woke up today and started researching for my paper that is due next Wednesday. I learned today that males are just degenerated females due to the degeneration of the Y chromosome which used to be an X chromosome. I am sure that is interesting to all. I did this until I got too sleepy and bored and then I slept and then went to my swimming class.

Today in swimming we had a swim meet. I remember swim meets from the old days in home school swiming. I hated doing them but I always did. I hate swim meets because I hate being seen in my swim suit. I do not have the best body in all the world and so I try to hide it behind clothes but in a swim suit everyone can see everything! For the meet we had to swim at least two different events to get credit for the day. It was crazy... I first did a 25 yd. breast stroke and our team got killed by team 1 (there were only 2 teams because the meet was only for my class) and then I did a 50 yd. free style where I came in 2nd or 3rd, I don't know which but I was happy with myself because there were 6 girls swimming that heat. I was totally up for not swimming anymore because I had my mandatory 2 events and I hate swimming with everyone watching so I was totally all for no more! Unfortunately we didn't have any girls who wanted to do the 50 back stroke and so I offered because I had only done 2 events. So we go and we swim it and as I am finishing I hear everyone yelling at me and so I figured that I was close to first and so I keep swimming hard but oh my gosh it hurt so bad! I was so tired! I finished and I got out of the pool and everyone on my team was all like "good job! You got first!" I was so impressed because I am not much for speed... but I beat the fast girl who was winning every single event! It was pretty good. Then I started to hurt. It was a like a never ending burning painful charlie-horse sensation in my thighs. It hurt so bad! I was done for good then because my legs hurt way to much to do anything else so I just sat there in pain, knowing that I beat the best swimmer in the class. Then I went home and slept for a while because I was tired.

Tonight we went with our friend Gary to the art gallery where Chris finished his FA100. To do this he had to look at the bachelors of fine arts projects. It wasn't all that exciting but then after that we went up to the gardens and they are really pretty this time of year. I also learned that they have the softest grass up there in the gardens, soft being relative for Idaho. Usually the grass here is really spiky and painful. Anyway. we walked around up there with Gary and looked at everything and it was really nice. Then we went to Pizza Hut.

At Pizza Hut we get there and they are understaffed and so everything takes a long time and finally our server comes and gets our order and Gary and I go and get the salad bar. I am excited, see, because I love salad. I pile it on to the little plate I have and try to pile more and more and more on there. When I have no more room for anything I go back and sit down and start eating my salad and mmmm-mmmm is it wonderful! Then, I am about to take a big bite of lettuce and I touch it to the dressing over a cucumber first and as I pull it away there is a big nasty dead cricket on my cucumber! Needless to say, I freaked out. I started to feel really queezy and pushed my plate away. Gary takes it up and tells the lady at the register that he didn't pay to have the bug included and the lady was like oh... sorry... We'll give you a discount. I felt so sick for a while. Then I drew on my napkin the dead bug in my salad and left it for who ever cleaned off the table.... The pizza was good but I don't think I will be eating there any time ever again....

We then went to Brass in Blue, the army air force band that came to BYUI. It was fun and good times. All in all the day was good but the pain from swimming and the bug kind of tainted it but I guess you never get the good without a little bit of bad!