My Week of High Adventure

This last week was one of high adventure. Monday was my birthday, so I spent the morning wearing a tiara. And also packing. For a trip to Yellowstone! Then we spent the rest of the day in the car, driving there. We rented a cabin in Island Park, and then every morning we drove to Yellowstone and spent the day there. It was absolutely beautiful! Things I saw there include: beautiful landscapes, geysers, waterfalls, moose (or, in the plural form, meece), deer, antelope, bison, elk, and also polygamists! The first day we were there, it was raining like crazy, so we all got soaked. The next day was lovely weather, but it did start raining when we were in the Old Faithful visitor's center, so we were strongly cautioned against going outside, because of lightning. So, we had half an hour to kill in the visitor's center. I decided to pretend I was an exchange student from Ireland, and was determined to only speak in my Irish accent. Unfortunately, when I stepped on a piece of gum so sticky it ripped my shoe off my foot, cementing it to the floor, I was too distressed to keep up the accent.

On Thursday, we packed up our stuff and cleaned the cabin, then went on our merry way to a family reunion in Wyoming. It was so much fun! We went repelling, and that was awesome. I was slightly worried, because they ran out of real harnesses, so mine was actually two pieces of rope tied together, and then tied around me into a harness. It worked, though! And then I didn't even die when I went over the huge overhang about 100 feet up! After this, we had a parkour competition. Not pro parkour, where you jump off a building then scale a 10 foot wall. This was redneck parkour, where you jump over a lawn mower, then roll under an electric fence. And the whole time, we were blasting music like Eye of the Tiger and Mission Impossible. Because we're just that cool. The next day we did team building activities, with stuff like human knot and food relay races. For the food relay race, I ended up with those horrible cheese peanut butter crackers, that I HATE (no food should be that color), and I ended up with 6 of them in my mouth at once. I was pretty sure I was going to die. But I didn't! We also just hung out, and had a good time in general.

We drove back from the reunion on Monday, ending my week of high adventure. It was so much fun!