Summer List

I've always seen people post these lists of things they wanted to do in the summer and then they'd check them off and update everyone on their progress. I thought it was lame. As the school year was winding down I starting thinking of all these things I wanted to do with people before we all took off for school. I thought if I wrote the things I wanted to do down, I would actually remember and accomplish these things. So I caved and wrote a "Summer List" with Emily.

Below is the list. The top section has everything we did not accomplish. The second section has everything we completed. The tasks are listed in the order they were completed and the number next to them is the number that they were on the list.

Summer list - Emily y Micah
6. Club
8. Real live road trip
11. Red rocks
18. Eat lobster


Completed!
10. Last day of skiing party
12. Taylor Swift road trip
2. Go camping
7. Trek
15. Known by name at village inn
1. Make music video
3. Casa Bonita - w Tessa!
14. Old fashion photo
4. Pawn something
19. Pedicures
16. Mini golf
9. Convertible ride in mountains
17. Tye dye
13. Ghost town- sts. John, third bridge
5. Party in park

I had a super fun summer and having this list motivated me to accomplish many of the things that I always talk about doing. We've already begun building a list for next summer. I'm looking forward to summer not as a break from school, but more as an opportunity to finish super fun things off the list now.

Trek - Take Two.

I went on the pioneer trek four years ago, right before I started high school. I hated it. Everyone in my family was an outgoing senior and as an incoming freshman; I knew absolultey no one. To top it off we casually strolled along everyday. So I decided I would not go again this summer even though I had the oppurtunity to do so. However. One of my friends wanted to go, so I went again, so that she could go.

This here is our family on the last day right after our 14 mile hike. There was a little stream by the camp that we got to play in before we cooked dinner and set up camp.

While on the 14 mile hike over rocky ridge we had to go through these huge mud bogs.

We had square dancing one afternoon.

My Ma and Pa had recently returned from a trip to Mexico, where they purchased real bull whips and lassos to bring on the trek. I couldn't get the hang of it.

We did lots of water crossings.

The boys of the family.

The girls of the family.

My Ma and Pa.

I really enjoyed trek this time around. My family was great. I'm glad my friend wanted to come along, it would have been a totally different experience without her. I'm thankful to live in a day and age where I'm not asked to trek across the country on foot. Sure I've had to move a couple times in my life due to my father's job, but I've never had to leave everything behind and start over in a foreign land.

Camping Trip

This summer I ventured out on my very first camping trip planned by myself and my friends. Whoa. No chaperones. No adult planning or anything. We did a pretty good job as well, if I do say so myself. We took Guenella Pass and camped in a little site near a creak. I was absolutley gorgeous where we went. We totally lucked into that too, none of us had been there before.

This is me on the top of the pass. Before the storm rolled in...
Posing by our tent.

The water pump

The extent of the nearest townIt then started pouring rain. I was the only one willing to go out in it to retrieve stuff from the car. We all brought rain jackets like good RMSELians, but at this point I was tired of putting it on and taking it off so many times. Lazy.

After it stopped raining we went exploring! Look at how pretty is was!

While on our exloration hike we set the camera down to take cheezy pictures.

The real intent of the camping trip was to find and explore a ghost town. So the next day we set out for a town called Sts. John. This is what was left...

It was cool. While here we also went on a hike because there was another ghost town, to get to it we needed to cross a river, but we didn't. So we went somewhere else and came across snow instead. Snow in July. So we played in it. Duh.

We ran across this...

Then on the way back we stopped by this here sign. We passed it a million times this winter when we went to A-Basin, but we never stopped in the winter. We discovered that there is a trail all along the continental divide also, so we hiked up to one of the little peaks off the side of the freeway. It was pretty cool.

On our way home we stopped in some tiny town and took train pictures.

So yea. That was pretty much it, next summer we are going to plan out a bigger and better trip. But this sufficed for planning the day before, around everyone's work schedules.

Disneyland

For my birthday/graduation present Meaghan took me to Disneyland! I love going out to California to visit her, going to Disneyland was an added bonus! Las time I went I was four years old and I threw up in line for the Hunchback of Notre Dame play, so I didn't get to see it. What a bummer. Meaghan made these cool shirts for us...

As we were leaving the park to head over to California Adventure one day we caught Mickey right as he was coming out, so we missed the mile long line that built behind us. We got super lucky the two days we were there and had to wait in hardly any lines. We rode pretty much every ride.

I had a great trip. I can't wait to go out there again next summer. I got caught in June gloom, so we only managed to make it to the beach once. It was still a great trip though.

T-Swizzle

Right after graduation I headed out on a ROAD TRIP! Woooo! To Omaha Nebraska for the Taylor Swift concert. Last year Emily and I went, then these boys got jealous so we promised we would take them to the next concert. Except it wouldn't be in town until September - when we would have all left for college. So we chose to road trip it out to the second night of the Speak Now tour, the day after our graduation.

We left around four in the morning. I was the first to drive. It was mostly on long, straight, empty roads so if you weren't watching the speedometer, it was really easy to creep up to 100 mph. Once I caught myself at 110, but after that I was a lot more watchful of my speed. After we switched out the first time Emily drove. She was going only ten miles over the speen limit, but after about an hour or so of her driving we got pulled over. The cop was super nice and everything, but Emily got her first ticket regardless. I felt really bad. She was mad at me, cause I never got caught. I offered to pay half the ticket.

Clearly we were all super pumped. Some just show that better than others.

Before the concert we ate dinner at this really good burger place. It was kinda awkwardly fancy/trendy too.

Then it was show time!

The concert was great! So much fun. Lots of glitter, confetti, and fireworks. The coolest part were the arial dancers that dropped out of those hanging bells. After the concert we hung out at wal mart buying sketchy things then just went back to the hotel and watched a movie and went to bed. The next morning we headed home.

It was a super fun trip. I hope to go on another road trip sometime soon.