No such thing as a lazy river

Fun week this week. We've been experiencing the heat that makes Justin and I wonder if we can handle Las Vegas next year...On Friday, Vegas had record highs of 120 degrees! No thank you!!!!! 

For family home evening last Monday Justin and I planned our 7 week break. We've filled it with things to do on the weekends to enjoy the beautiful much-too-short summer here. I'll be working full-time for the summer and Justin is hoping to pick something up, so those are our summer plans in just a few weeks!

Tuesday my rec team had a game but I didn't know, so Justin and I went to the movies instead with the Miskins (married couple we're friends with) and a few others. We watched World War Z. I thought it was so good. Keep in mind, I didn't LOVE it because I don't like zombies. They scare me to death. In fact, the entire movie I had Justin's arm in a death grip. BUT I thought the movie was done very well and I liked it...sort of? I don't know how to say that I liked something that I don't like. It is a strange feeling for sure. 

I've been working like crazy. That is all I do all day along with write my final paper for my geowriting class. That has been the biggest drama of my life. Expectations are SO not clear, and the teacher schedules quizzes on the days he knows I'm going to be gone because of GEOL 380. So right now I have a D+ and that doesn't include two zeroes that need to be put in the grade book because I missed the quizzes because of my other class. Grrrrr. The good news is my forever21 ring came so my left ring finger isn't naked anymore...which Justin is happy about. =] I signed up to do a triathlon in August. I'll swim 800 meters, bike 14 miles, and run 3.1 miles. I'm excited! We had a RS activity for the first time in months. It's nice to have proactive people in callings like activities. We made headbands and ate delicious fruit and just visited which was fun. =]

Thursday I did my visiting teaching. One of the girls I visit teach works for Mary Kay. It has taken her just over a year to become a director where they actually make decent salary (anywhere from $4,000 to $10,000 a month!) and she's working toward earning a mustang...what? I'm interested. You can work as much or as little as you want...I definitely need to do more research. and Justin and I got a Dominoes pizza. I've had six girls interested in renting my wedding dress since we put it on the bulletin board. Two are coming to try it on and two have already agreed to rent it! I've written a contract they have to sign and agree to before using it. The first girl takes it this week, so we'll see how it goes! As long as girls want to use it on different weeks, I could be renting this thing out all summer! Woot! 

Friday my geology class went to Heise and Kelly Canyon to study rhyolitic eruptions. I woke up Friday morning with a sore throat and stuffy nose but decided to go anyway. We did a hike at Cress Creek for a few hours and then hiked in Kelly Canyon determining rock types and measuring dip and strike. I loved it. I love figuring out what the rock type is and how it most likely formed. My teacher is great too. He asked how we would go about finding if layers of rock were right side up or upside down and I said you could date them and if you had old rock on top of new rock you would know it was upside down and he said, "Yeah but Kelsey since you're already married you probably don't want to date these rocks." Ha. =] Here are some pictures from last week at Big Springs.

The rock has high permeability (rock's ability for liquid to move through it) and porosity (the rock's open space divided by it's total volume) until this layer of black rhyolite so the water has been seeping through  all the rock above this spot, and here since this rhyolite is low permeability/porosity, the water can't move down anymore so it moves out...that's why the water looks like it's rushing out of the rock in this spot. Rocks can have high permeability but low porosity (if it has cracks) or it can have high porosity but low permeability (there are many holes but they aren't connected so water doesn't move through it). 

57 degree water...brrr!

Pictures from Heise and Kelly 

Turbidites (sedimentary rock with trace fossils) found near igneous rock formation. There was a fault here that exposed sedimentary rock so we saw igneous, then sedimentary, then perhaps there would have been more igneous rock but the Snake River plain was the next thing over so we think the Yellowstone hotspot obliterated any of the other rock as the North American plate has moved over it toward the south west.

Obsidian weathering out of the rhyolite 

Rhyolite at Kelly Canyon

I felt okay all day and even felt better around 4 o'clock, but when we pulled into Rexburg at 7 I felt so so sick. I went home and changed my clothes for my ultimate game thinking, "I just won't play today...I'll just coach from the sideline." Well when I got there I just couldn't not play, so I ate a few saltines and played. Our team won 10-8 in a very close game. Our team is seeded first for tournament, and this team is seeded second. At the end of time the score was 8-8. We agreed that the winning team needed to win by 2 or get to 13 first. My team scored the next point making it 9-8 to us and my team was tired. We were playing the whole game with no subs while the other team had three. I gathered my team and told them we needed to end our own misery by scoring the next point!!! Low and behold we scored the next point and solidified our 1st seed placement in the tournament. Justin's team is also seeded first. Woot! Now in two weeks we play the 4th seeded team and if we win we play in the championship. =] Hooray!

After our hard fought game I hobbled over to the ground and tore my shoe off....to see a HUGE blister on my toe!! It hurt so bad. I couldn't even walk right which sounds so lame (c'mon it's just a blister) but it was a deep blister and it burned and stung like mad. We headed to Rigby to partake in Trisha's neighborhood 15 minute fire work show and to pick up Shae to spend the night with us. Justin and I waited at Trisha's door step for them to come home and a little dog came running up to us. He was shaking so bad and it reminded me of Duke and how scared he gets when we used to do fireworks. I tried to hold him and pet him but he couldn't be contained and ran away. Hopefully his owners find him! We picked up Shae and went to Burger King because I was ravenous. We let Shae get anything she wanted and then played Clue at our apartment. We stayed up until 1 AM playing Clue! Shae won =] She has a newer version of the game which gives each character a special ability and special cards which make the game more interesting. 

The next morning the three of us did a few things to help Justin with setting up our tournament, and then Shae and I came back to the apartment and made crepes for breakfast and cupcakes for a baby shower later that day. Shae made the cupcake batter and helped me put them in the cupcake wrappers. Shae liked the strawberry and nutella and the ham and cheese crepes.

From there we got McDonald's for lunch and went to the tournament to watch Justin play while we waited for Rexburg Rapids to open. He reserved the fields by Rexburg Rapids long ago and invited several teams to come play. BYU, ISU, and IF brought teams up and we had enough players to split our club team into a few teams so it was a decent turn out. I'm proud of Justin...he organized the whole thing with little to no help from anyone else. Good work sweetie!

Justin vs. James! I sense a foot block coming...

Shae and I played at the water park the rest of the day. We had the most fun playing tag in the lazy river. After one of us would tag the other, we had to wait five seconds before we tried to tag the other back. Shae was hard to catch! And she was crafty...she hid from me several times and I had a hard time running away from her. Fun times! The place was totally packed. We enjoyed the slides and Shae almost climbed to the top of the rock wall! We got Snoasis snow cones and Trisha picked her up. It was a fun day hanging out with her. I was grateful to be in the water all day, and Mom you'll be proud to hear I wore a hat the whole time. Minimizing wrinkles over here!

Justin's team went 4-0 in their tournament and we had a raffle at the end. He said it was a lot of fun. That night we went to a baby shower I "threw" for my friend. She wasn't going to have one but I told her she should and I'd throw her one if she wanted. Well turns out all I did was bring cupcakes because she did the rest. It was a good turn out and I'm glad she had friends come support her. 

Everything is going very well. I'm excited to see Keaton in eight days! Only three weeks of school left! Then Justin will be graduated and I'll be in my last semester! I still can't believe that. I feel like we're going to be here forever. It will be interesting to see how life turns out in the next few years.

Craters of the Moon and other things

 Hello family and friends. Sorry I haven't updated in a while. Last Friday my geology 380 class started, which is a class just for earth science education majors. It is composed of three students. We go on field trips every Friday all day long and take pictures and collect samples for our future teaching. Our first field trip was technically the Grand Canyon with the 111 class, but last Friday we went to Craters of the Moon. They have this weird policy now that if you've been in a cave since 2005, you can't go in their caves if you were wearing the same shoes or the same clothes...weird. We didn't go through the lava tube caves though, so we didn't have to deal with that. I learned a lot about Craters and had a really great afternoon there. Our teacher bought us milkshakes in Arco on the way home. Score!

That night my team had a frisbee game. We won 11-8 but did not play well. It was just an off night so I'm glad to have that out of our systems. 

This last Friday we went to Big Springs near Island Park and canoed the river to study meandering streams and river systems. My friend Rachel is in that class with me, so we canoed together while the other student canoed with the teacher. The water is a consistent 57 degrees year round, and it was breezy that day. BRRR! It was chilly. I wore my under armor and a jacket and I felt perfect...the other students were freezing! It was fun to spend the afternoon canoeing...and even better to earn 4 credits doing so! 

That night we had a game and had a rough start. They were leading 6-3 at half time, but then my team woke up and they didn't score another point the rest of the game. We had them 11-6 by the end, and then they scored to end the game so it was awesome. I'm confident we can take another championship this season, but you never know if another team is going to click at the last minute and win so we stay on our toes. Saturday morning I had my team over for team breakfast. I made crepes and did the strawberry-nutella-powerdered sugar and ham & cheese crepes Jory made at Trisha's baby shower. I'm addicted and can never go back! Those crepes are the best and my team loved them. 

Justin was gone this weekend at Cedar City playing with the club team. They came in 4th out of 12 teams. I know my family thinks we are kind of weird for loving ultimate so much, but we are really gaining respect from other teams that are regular tournament goers. We host a tournament next weekend so we hope to have a good turn out for that. Justin has done a ton of work making the team more official trying to get sponsors and holding regular practices. We hope T-Rexburg continues after we leave. It's been so fun to play. I'm going to miss it when we leave, but we'll find another club team when we move to Vegas for sure. 

Since Justin was gone Thursday through Saturday, I spent the majority of my time cleaning. And I LOVED IT. We had so much crap in our closet and our bookshelves that we never use. When sorting through our "things" I thought to myself, "Have I ever used this since we've been married?" and if the answer was no, it went to the garbage or DI. It was a wonderful feeling, and I really went over the top. Thursday night was bookshelves and closet, and Friday night after our game I cleaned the apartment (not kidding) from 10 PM to 2 AM. I did everything except vacuum (because I don't think my neighbors would have appreciated that) including washing all the bedding, couch cover, sweeping, mopping, dusting, EVERYTHING. I found it an excellent activity to keep my mind off being alone and vulnerable. Saturday morning before my team came over I finished vacuuming everything including the cracks of every nook and cranny. Our house is immaculate and I love it.

I lost my wedding ring last week. So sad. I put it in my zip up pocket while we played ultimate. I put my keys in that pocket too and when we were done I pulled out my keys but forgot about my ring. I remembered the next morning and searched everywhere for it. We were on our hands and knees in the park all morning, then rented a metal detector for four hours after that. We made signs, put them up, and reported it to the police department. Two days later they mowed the grass....so so so sad! Justin has continually reassured me, "It's just a thing," but...it's a pretty big-deal thing. I've had people reassure me with their miracle stories of finding lost wedding rings, so who knows. The best one was from my supervisor at work whose daughter lost hers while running errands and her husband found it A YEAR LATER in one of the parking lots they were doing errands at...keep in mind this was in Rexburg...where snow is plowed regularly! Miracle.

Saturday Mom and Dad came into town to watch "Ephraim's Rescue" with Chase & Rachel, Trisha and her kids, and me. I could tell the movie was low-budget, but there were fleeting moments that I really liked. I read The Work and the Glory and Fire of the Covenant by Gerald Lund which are novels all about the early saints. I loved those books; they really helped me gain a testimony of the restoration of the gospel during my teenage years. The early saints had conviction like you can't believe, and this movie added to my understanding of just how committed these people were to the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's a good reminder for me as Justin and I think about our future family and raising them in a wicked world where everything is changing and government can hardly decide which way is up. We have to be absolutely valiant in the gospel if our kids are to gain testimonies and hold fast to what is true.

I have my dress up for rent on the bulletin board and it is getting a lot of attention. So far I've had three girls ask about it. One of them wants to rent it, and another one is coming over to try it on this week to see if she wants to rent it, too. I've written a contract and everything that we'll both sign so if anything happens I'm protected. It's very exciting and if enough people rent it I could make a profit! 

We were invited to my visiting teacher's house to do some family history work for FHE last week. I thought there was no way we'd find a name on my side of the family because it's all practically done, but we found a "maybe match" so we printed it off and we're going to do the work for them. That's exciting!

Tuesday we helped clean the I-Center and I had a rec frisbee game. We won that and hopefully our team will win that championship.

Wednesday we threw Rachel a surprise birthday party. Justin and I brought burgers for everyone and we had a good time. The weather was bad all day, but right when the party started it was fine so we lucked out. Good work Chase for a successful birthday surprise. =]

Finally, I thought the world wide training on missionary work was so great. I just love this gospel! I'm grateful to be relief society president where I am in a perfect position to help the missionaries find people to teach. We have plenty of inactive young couples, and I have a direct part in seeking them out and using missionaries to reactivate them. I loved what the brethren had to say, and I especially loved the little videos they showed, especially the one where each family member had a missionary moment through service and fellowship. I love that the church is allowing missionaries to use more technology to help further the work with sites like Mormon.org. Really what it all comes down to is the temple. We want all to partake of the wonderful blessing of the gospel of Christ, and also to take part in the eternal saving ordinances of the temple. I want to be with my family forever, and it's through temple covenants that we qualify for such a blessing. I have felt the spirit so strongly. I'm grateful for the life I've been given and the people I have in my life whom I have the opportunity to be an influence on. Truly the best way to do missionary work is through the members "catching the wave" of the ward mission plan and helping missionaries in their full-time service. The gospel is true and I love it. 

Pahoehoe AKA ropy basalt flows

      

Cinder Cone

Big Southern Butte

Cinder Cone

Windy day at Craters of the Moon...standing on the fissure zone

Here are some pictures from the Grand Canyon I haven't put up yet

Coal

Canyonlands......we called it Candyland

Arches National Park

I'm the one with my hands up

The Mexican Hat with the Monolith behind it

Goosenecks

Monument Valley

The first few minutes into the hike I did not complete...such a beautiful sight!

Here we switch to my friend's camera because I dropped  mine in sand...which is a shame because the quality is not very good. Oh well.

It takes 4 Empire State Buildings to go from the bottom of the canyon to the top. That middle cliff alone is 1000 ft.

My favorite

Elk are the only animals in the park that are not native...Teddy Roosevelt thought it would be a good idea to introduce them and they've been here since. There were signs for mountain lions, but it's a good thing they're not a real threat because the TAs were so stupid with the food at night. Strangely, the most dangerous animal there is the squirrel...they carry the plague and you're dead without medical attention if they scratch or bite you.

The Grand Canyon

Hello all! My second trip to the Grand Canyon was a success. Before leaving my team had a game Friday night. I've had a few girls quit, and for this particular game we only have five girls. You have to have five players minimum to not forfeit, so we played with no subs for over an hour. It was exhausting, but my team won (9-5) and my girls played awesome!

In my preparation for my trip I went to D.I. to look for some cargo pants. Last year our teacher said, "Do NOT wear pants!" because it would be so hot, but this year the teacher said, "No shorts except for the hike day" and there was NO WAY I was wearing jeans...they are much too hot. I found some pants that fit perfect for $4 and a blue shirt made of really nice material at walmart for $5. I basically wore these the whole four days. I armed myself with fruit snacks and granola bars to munch on for the long trip to Arizona.

Saturday morning we gathered at the Romney at 6:30. The teacher invited me to attend to help the other two T.A.'s and part of my contribution was to be a driver. Well I got there with my driver's license, but I wasn't certified to drive BYU-Idaho equipment so I couldn't drive the vans. Luckily another student had his "BYU-Idaho license" with him so he drove and I rode shotgun. Our van was pretty fun. It's interesting to see how I've changed since being married. Last year I was making all sorts of friends and being so outgoing, and now that I'm married I'm like, "meh..." It's just different. Our driver's name was Gene (Eugene but he likes to be called Gene) from Ghana. He is on Justin's ultimate team, so we knew each other a little and became friends. He was a scary driver at the beginning but got better. We had several incidents that came close to an accident but the Lord was with us! I called Mom after our first stop and told her to pray for our safety. Her prayers can make anything happen!

We drove through Spanish Fork and in the canyon we stopped at a landslide and several stops along the way where the road cuts showed changes in energy manifested in the rock. I learned a lot more on this trip compared with last year because our teacher last year just wanted to party (it was his last semester before moving to Hawaii so he had clocked out). We didn't have to take notes or anything but this teacher meant business so the class took notes the whole time. I didn't have to, but I took notes too because it was all very interesting. We made our way to Canyonlands where we got a taste of what the Grand Canyon would look like. Our teacher talked a bit about geologic time, and the time it took to carve the canyon...but he also brought up the amount of time to deposit the sediment before carving the canyon...I love learning about these processes and it's testimony to me how much God loves us. He took a long time to get things just right for us. We're a big investment! We are His work and His glory. We drove from 6:30 to 9:00 that night where we finally rolled into our stop near Moab. We camped along the Colorado river and I slept on top of my sleeping bag because it was so nice.

Sunday morning we had a little sacrament meeting. It was really special because our teacher called on Gene to bear his testimony. He spoke about following the Holy Ghost. He said that Brother Lovell (teacher) asked the class to get certified through the school to drive the vans and he felt a strong impression to get certified. He said he didn't know why he felt he should do it, he just did it and trusted. Well it turned out that we needed a third driver and because he was in tune with the spirit he was able to fill that role. It really humbled me because I was supposed to drive but I was the one who wasn't certified...the Lord works in mysterious ways to learn lessons and I was taught a lot by his great example.

We made our way to Arches National Park and spent an hour and a half there. I love the red rock there and I love climbing all over the place. On our drive we were able to collect some petrified wood samples. It took until about 8-9 to get to our camping spot in the Grand Canyon. After dinner, Brother Lovell, the two T.A.'s and myself made preparations for the hike the next morning. The hike is six miles down with two rest stops along the way where you can refill water and use the restroom. At the bottom people can camp but our group planned to rest there and hike six miles back up. That's the tricky thing about the Grand Canyon...you do the easy part first and do the hardest part when you're already tired...when the heat goes from 80 degrees in the morning to 110 degrees in the late afternoon. There's always a breeze in the area but you can only feel it toward the top. You don't feel any breeze in the canyon.

Brother Lovell would take one-third of the class down at 7 AM and a second third would follow an hour later. The third-third would leave an hour after the second-third. This was to split up our large group because the hike is pretty busy and we didn't want to block it up. One of the T.A.'s and myself were put in the last group and we hit the trail by 9 AM. I was feeling a bit strange in the morning but I thought it was just nerves. A mile and a half in I had already consumed Two liters of water and my muscles were shaking. It was only 80 degrees but I was sweating like crazy. My stomach was feeling worse so I radioed Brother Lovell (his group was almost to the bottom) and told him I needed to turn around. Gene came with me and our group pushed ahead.

My health was an interesting situation. I don't know what the deal was because after I made the decision to turn around I felt a lot better. Maybe I was just nervous but maybe there's a reason I needed to turn around that I just don't know. I probably could've done the hike...but I started thinking about my hubby at home waiting for me to get back safely and all it just wasn't worth it to me to risk anything stupid. I ended up having an awesome day touring the rim of the canyon via shuttle bus. Similar to the Grayline in N.Y.C. the Grand Canyon has a shuttle bus that stops along the canyon every 10 minutes and you can get on and off anytime you want. There are restrooms and water filling stations along the way so you are taken well care of as long as you bring sun screen. There are spots where the stops are just short of a mile between each other, so on those stops we decided to hike along the canyon rather than take the bus. We took some awesome pictures and I enjoyed the day much better than hiking 12 miles in 100 degree heat while feeling ill. We had a nice breeze and I put 50 SPF sunscreen on religiously every hour on the hour. No sunburns for me!

We made our way back to camp and saw an elk right by our campsite which was fun. We helped make dinner and there was a place you could take an eight-minute shower so we cleaned up and then I went straight to bed (8PM). I felt better throughout the day, but I still felt weak and just really off so bed was the right choice. The last group hadn't even hiked into camp yet when I was in bed...Brother Lovell was out hiking from 7AM to 9PM...crazy!

Tuesday morning we broke camp and drove home. It was one of the longest days of my life! But it certainly wasn't boring...our last stop in Ogden we gassed up the vans one last time. As everyone was piling into the vans I heard a woman shouting and I started watching what was happening. A man had a 14 year-old-ish boy in a bear hug and he was not quite yelling but speaking very aggressively in his face. The woman saw me paying attention and said, "Call the police!" I looked over at my teacher who didn't see what was happening so I called him over so he could watch. There were a few strangers who were closer to the incident and they were telling the man to calm down and let the boy go. I made my way around them into the gas station to tell the cashier to call the police. On my way I heard the man saying something to the boy about, "Are you really going to leave me after all I've done to support you?" and stuff like that. I have no idea what the situation was, but the man was not happy. The cashier was already on the phone with the police, so I walked out of the store toward the vans. On my way past the sidewalk one of the strangers who was defending the boy said, "Hey c'mon man are you really gonna do this in public?" and the crazy guy said, "Hey man shut the F-- up!" and threw his keys at him right when I was walking by. When I was walking and heard the crazy man's voice like that I started running and the keys barely missed me. After that the crazy man shoved the good guy into the gas station and I almost got shoved with him! Because I had started running he barely missed me and I mean barely. The students in my van said it looked like the keys had hit me and they kept asking me if I was okay. The police arrived just in time and we had to stay because we were witnesses. We waited an extra half-hour to hit the road. My adrenaline was up and my heart rate didn't calm down until we were almost to Farmington. Crazy! The students were telling me if he had hit me and hurt me there would've been a law suit and I could've got a bunch of money...oh well, I'll take my health, thanks.

The final stretch was for sure the hardest. I stayed awake the whole time with the driver to keep him awake. He told me stories about Ghana and I basically interrogated him the whole time to keep him talking. The last hour was rough. I was saying things like, "Okay, stay between the yellow and white lines..." he was dead tired. I felt like I was partly driving because I would tell him when to pass and when to change lanes and when there were people in his mirror. He had zero experience driving at night...the Lord totally enabled him to drive from 8AM to 12AM...16 hours later we were in Rexburg safely.

Overall I really enjoyed the trip. I felt lame because I was supposed to help with driving and the hike, and I ended up not being able to do either of those things...oh well. =] I'm okay with it. I had a great time and I don't plan on going again unless it's with Justin. I missed him too much. Now it's time to play catch up.

Ultimate, Field Trips, and Babies

This last week we've had a lot of fun things happen. Justin and I won our games last week. Both our teams had the same scores: 13-5! It was tons of fun. My team has really picked up the game quickly and they've grown so much!

*These two videos got split on accident...this was the same play.

I had a geology field trip to Montana last Saturday to Butte and Quake Lake. In Butte we went to the Burkley Pit and talked to a lady from EPA all about it. The pit is really big, but because we were far away we couldn't get a feel for how big it really is. We needed something for scale! We went to a memorial where 147 men died in a single mining accident. In the monument they had a poster you could read about "The Women of the West" and it talked about how Butte Montana had one of the most notorious red light disctricts in the west....whaaaat? I found that super interesting.

They made the monument out of the rock they drilled
with hollow tubes to see where to mine

The Berkley Pit has a pH of 2.2....crazy!

At Quake Lake our teacher described the earthquake and the landslide and it's fun for us because he is obsessed with landslides so he gets animated. He's only 30 years old and super chill so this class has been easy and fun. There was a lot of schist to collect (shiny metamorphic rock). We went to the reservoir and saw the houses that were affected by the sieche wave from the earthquake/landslide. Trisha told me someone in her ward was going to go camping that night but the campground was full so they camped in Island Park. Crazy!

Gneiss

The earthquake siesmic waves got concentrated in the area behind me causing the landslide that dammed up the river  giving us Quake Lake

After I got home Justin and I went straight to Trisha's house to hang out with her family and Mitzi who came into town for McCoy's baby blessing. We ate pizza and caramel popcorn all night. Chase and Rachel came and we played some lightning. I had to finish some stupid homework so I did that while Justin, Mitzi, & Chase and Rachel went to get dessert. We watched "The Impossible" which I loved because in both my Oceanography class and my Environmental Geology class we talked about the Sumatra earthquake and the tsunami. This movie was insane. I can't stop thinking about it and I watched it nearly a week ago! We really enjoyed it.

Sunday Justin and I went to our regular church and skipped sacrament to take a nap since we would be having sacrament meeting with Trisha's ward. Travis blessed little McCoy Seth Phillips. Travis asked Justin if he wanted to stand in the circle so I thought that was presh. We had lasagna after church which Justin and I helped Trisha prepare earlier in the week. We had a nice crowd and though it was windy, Trisha's house blocked the wind so we had a very nice afternoon just hanging around.

McCoy Seth Phillips =]

Justin always pets the glabella on baby heads

This week I'm almost finished with two first block classes. I take the final for one of them tomorrow. I'm enjoying my practical homemaking class. Tuesday we made bread dough and we're baking it today in class. On my way home I was riding my bike and this couple was walking on the sidewalk so I picked a side to go around them but the guy decided to move that way so I went off the sidewalk to avoid hitting him. My bike doesn't have good breaks so I tried to stop but I only slowed down a little and then ka-boom...bike wreck. I didn't get hurt too bad, but what I was most frustrated with was the stupid couple just kept walking by like they didn't just see me fall flat on my face. Ugh...I'm still mad at them. They didn't even say, "Are you okay?" They didn't even look at me! Jerks! And my pants got ruined, which is the worst part of all.

So the next two days I'm getting all ready to go to the grand canyon again. The only sad thing about this year is the teacher is more strict, so no shorts except for the hike in the actual canyon. Gag me. He said it will be at least 105 degrees. I'm going to suffocate!