Camping and Enrique

Volleyball Tournament--

Well we ended up getting second place, but it really was a nice ending. We played, what, 7 or 8 games in a row?!?!? In the rain. We were all soaked, our feet and legs had wet sand and mud all over. We were covered in a light layer of sand and trying to wipe our eyes with any part of our body did no good. To our credit, the team who did win only played, what 4 games? So I think we had quite a bit less energy than them. And for that, I think we did really well. We did lose to that team, but not without a good fight. I thought we played well, and above all, despite the sand in our eyes and our hair, the never-ending rain and the exhaustion that we were trying to fight off, we really had fun. And fun is the point of it all, right? YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Taro Milkshakes!!!!

Camping--

So the day after our tournament we went camping (we being: my father, stepmother, older sister and myself). We camped in the mountains. First night we got there it was rainy (yayyyyy Katrina!) and electricity went out. We played cards with our vision illuminated only by candles. My stepmom, as much as I do dearly love her, dear god... she had one of the largest flashlights on and my dad said "we should keep it off to reserve battery power until we need it" and she said "no, it's okay, it's plugged in." and my dad said "well plugging it in is not going to do much good if the electricity is out." (uh duhhhhhh) I shared sleeping quarters with my sister, who, I swear to god, she did nothing but snore and kick and punch the whole time in her sleep. I woke up with bruises and problems with deafness. (Just kidding. I figured she is probably reading this and I wanted to write that so that she'd have a heart attack. Actually, she was pleasant to sleep with. Nothing crazy goin' on there.)

Next day we were freezing our little booties off, coloring in a coloring book with crayons. My dad did... who knows what, while my stepmom, my sister and I just colored pictures. Mine came out so cute and of the three that I did, two of them were reminiscent of my ex-boyfriend (#4) who, for some reason, I have been missing quite a bit lately. My third pic was in tribute to Jamun!!!!! We were freezing, in pants, shirts and sweatshirts over those shirts and my older sister wanted to hit up the water park. I said "$#(!#%$!?**$@ are you crazy?!?!" because to go to a waterpark in our SWIMSUITS and get wet when it's already freezing seemed absolutely insane to all of us. Somehow she convinced us to go. And I'm glad she did. My sister wore a bikini (it was all black, with a halter top and boycut shorts), and I refused to wear my bikini when my dad was around (ummm it's my dad!!!!), so instead I wore an ultra conservative nastiness which, I decided, needs to be retired. We went down crazy slides. One of the best ones my sister didn't like because it "totally owned [her]" AHAHAAHA. I don't think it's possible to wipe out on a slide, but if it's possible that's what she did. I think she didn't think to plug her nose as the end came by and got water allllllll up in her grill. hahaha what?!? yeah. All the guys at the top of the slides were really flirty with us. I don't know if my sister noticed or not, but they most definitely were flirty. At the wave pool one of the lifeguards had his toenails painted BRIGHT pink. He looked normal and totally straight... and then you look at his toenails and whoaaaaaa lord! What's goin' on there?!?!?? It was neat to see all of the cool setups, because I hadn't been there in probably 10 years and I forgot how cool they were. My sis took tons of pics and I will get them from her and perhaps post a few on this.

S'morrrrrrrres! yeah. The next day we shopped around the touristy shops and left kinda early because we had to be back to pick up Enrique (he is one of my best friends who seems to be one of two people who actually posts on these blogs).

Enrique's Trip--

Sooooooo we picked up my honey (or rather, my sister picked up my honey), and I met up with them at my sister's place before we headed out for dinner. We then went out for drinks with all of our pals, and went dancing. I noticed that most of the time it was just my sister and I that were dancing, before giiiiiiiiiiirl and Enrique joined. But the others weren't too up for dancing because they suck for crack $$. It was really quite a crazy night, as pictures might indicate, and if I can obtain those from my sister, I will perhaps post a few on this, also. There are one or two pics that are really just hilarious and need to be posted. I will really try to get them.

Saturday-Monday night my sister and Enrique flew to NYC together to hang there. I had to stay because I had a whoooooole bunch of stuff going on. Sunday I talked to a friend of mine and worked out plans to go to Brasil. :-) Picked up the kids at midnight on Mon (or rather on Tues. morning, technically), went to bed. Woke up for my portuguese class, which I love. Met back up with Enrique and my sister and went kayaking. That was fun...until I was soaking wet and then I wasn't so happy. Later that night we met up with a crapload of friends and my little sister and her fiancé. I saw ppl who I hadn't seen in forever, and because there were so many of them I hardly had time to talk as much with everyone as I wanted to. Wednesday my sister and Enrique went to some waterfalls and to a park. I met up with them later at my mother's house. We (my two sisters, my little's fiancé, my brother, and Enrique) had dinner and chatted. It was the first time Enrique had ever been to my house, and he got the tour of my room, which he decided was more girly than he had anticipated it would be. :-( Wed. night I spent the night at my sister's and then, after coming back from portuguese on Thurs, I took Enrique to the airport.

It was loads of fun. Loads. And... yeah, that's it. I'll just have to put some pics up that will describe what really went on, because otherwise, I'll be sitting here for another hour or two, going into details.

Tonight I am meeting up with my stepmom and older sister for pizza, wings and a movie. My GIRL is back in town from her summer co-op (I'm SO excited!!! I missed her!), and so I will probably be hanging with her either tonight or tomorrow night. Funnnnnnnn! ;-)