we got up, worked out, and left for vail.
the drive really wasn't too bad - no wasps in the truck, no brake failures, etc. i really can't complain. when we got to our hotel/lodge thing, our room was already ready, so we checked in and were lucky enough to get a first floor room! i don't know why, but i was so excited about that. how convenient. =]
after we got all settled in, i had a fantastic phone chat with miss jordan grubaugh! ahh it was so nice to catch up with her and talk about life.
it was a long phone chat though, so by the time i got back to the room, laura told me she thought i had died. haha oopsie ;]
from there we left to explore vail a little bit. it wasn't the same being here without george and stuff, but it was still verrrr nice. we checked out the ugliest shoe shop i've ever witnessed, and we wandered through another few shops before we went to dinner at pazzo's - the best pizza place everrr. yum. =]
then we ran back to the hotel because it had started to rain freezing cold rain, and neither of us had jackets with us. when we got back, the boys were here so we hung out with them for a bit and watched part of the mls allstars v man-u game. i can sum it up in 1 word: EMBARRASSING. man-u played half of their second string players and still dominated us. i only watched until like the 40th minute because i couldn't stand to watch that disgrace any longer. man-u scored a goal in the 36th SECOND. that's right - i didn't say MINUTE, i said SECOND. wow. don't even get me started....
then me and laura and chris and sean went to the grocery store and got food for breakfast the next few days since our hotel's breakfast isn't free (those jerks) and now laura and i are just chillin like villains in our very large, first floor room. =]
i'm super tired though, so that's all for now!
gute nacht!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
day 58
today started off pretty slow. we found out that we don't need to be to vail until thursday, not wednesday like we originally thought. so we're staying in denver another night and we will drive to vail tomorrow.
this morning we got up for breakfast, then we just laid around all morning like total lazy bums. around 1 or 2, we went to the office to drop off some broken stuff that we don't need and that just gets in our way all the time. while there, we shot some hoops in the warehouse and chatted with hil-dawg and bryce. then we left the office and just came back to the hotel for a bit (and watched a tv show about little people) before we left for stephen's house. the other road crew that's in vail with us, chris and sean, are staying at stephen's so laura and i went over there to hang out/grill out with them and stephen. it was sooo much fun! those boys are hilarious. we watched a bit more of our tv show about the little people (it's called "the little couple" and it's addicting) for a little bit, ate bbq chicken and some steak kabobs, and chatted about life. after dinner, someone whipped out the jumbo marshmallows. it started out friendly, just throwing them around and throwing them into the ceiling fan so they'd shoot off in random directions.....but then one thing led to another and before we knew it we were running all over the house and chucking massive mallows at each other as hard as we could. like, we were leaving welts on each other. haha we were all sweating and breathing hard and running and screaming and hiding and sneaking and......ah it was so fun! by the end, our huge fluffy marshmallows had turned as hard as rocks. i think we just beat most of the air out of them. i still have some red marks on myself. haha but it was totally worth it. =]
after we called a truce, we went to cold stone and met a little 4 year old boy named miles. i'm not a huge fan of kids, but i honestly wanted to steal this one. he was sooooo cute and super friendly! we probably talked to him and his mom for a solid 15 minutes. and i wasn't even annoyed! THAT'S how adorable this little boy was. i hope i have a kid like that someday..
when we got back, we all just sat around and talked. laura and i started interrogating sean about his life and it evolved into a would you rather sort of thing. burger king or mcdonald's? chocolate or vanilla? fly or drive? ocean or mountains? etc. soon chris joined us and we interrogated him for a bit, started into the would you rather questions again, and before we knew it, 3 hours had gone by and laura and i were deleriously tired. so we had to say goodnight to the boys and go back to our hotel. now we're getting ready for bed and my phone is all cracked out and keeps deleting things and acting weird so...that stinks.
tomorrow we head to vail!
gute nacht!
this morning we got up for breakfast, then we just laid around all morning like total lazy bums. around 1 or 2, we went to the office to drop off some broken stuff that we don't need and that just gets in our way all the time. while there, we shot some hoops in the warehouse and chatted with hil-dawg and bryce. then we left the office and just came back to the hotel for a bit (and watched a tv show about little people) before we left for stephen's house. the other road crew that's in vail with us, chris and sean, are staying at stephen's so laura and i went over there to hang out/grill out with them and stephen. it was sooo much fun! those boys are hilarious. we watched a bit more of our tv show about the little people (it's called "the little couple" and it's addicting) for a little bit, ate bbq chicken and some steak kabobs, and chatted about life. after dinner, someone whipped out the jumbo marshmallows. it started out friendly, just throwing them around and throwing them into the ceiling fan so they'd shoot off in random directions.....but then one thing led to another and before we knew it we were running all over the house and chucking massive mallows at each other as hard as we could. like, we were leaving welts on each other. haha we were all sweating and breathing hard and running and screaming and hiding and sneaking and......ah it was so fun! by the end, our huge fluffy marshmallows had turned as hard as rocks. i think we just beat most of the air out of them. i still have some red marks on myself. haha but it was totally worth it. =]
after we called a truce, we went to cold stone and met a little 4 year old boy named miles. i'm not a huge fan of kids, but i honestly wanted to steal this one. he was sooooo cute and super friendly! we probably talked to him and his mom for a solid 15 minutes. and i wasn't even annoyed! THAT'S how adorable this little boy was. i hope i have a kid like that someday..
when we got back, we all just sat around and talked. laura and i started interrogating sean about his life and it evolved into a would you rather sort of thing. burger king or mcdonald's? chocolate or vanilla? fly or drive? ocean or mountains? etc. soon chris joined us and we interrogated him for a bit, started into the would you rather questions again, and before we knew it, 3 hours had gone by and laura and i were deleriously tired. so we had to say goodnight to the boys and go back to our hotel. now we're getting ready for bed and my phone is all cracked out and keeps deleting things and acting weird so...that stinks.
tomorrow we head to vail!
gute nacht!
Monday, July 26, 2010
day 57
today i got up early and ate with the fam fam before they all went off to work. then i ran and packed up my stuff, had an early lunch with my momma, and left for laura's house.
we ended up rollin out around noon. not a lot of excitement, we just.....drove.
at one point, after stopping for gas, we realized there was a wasp in our truck! ahh! we started freaking out, laura decided to drive in 2 lanes on the interstate, and we kept losing sight of it and then it would pop up again out of nowhere. scary! finally, i whacked that little booger out my open window and we were safe! it took a lot of tries though. that wasp was a tricky little feller..
also, laura lost the charger for her gps, so we went cruisin through the backroads of denver and eventually found our hotel thanks to our killer instincts (ie, a mixture of my phone, an atlas, and the google maps directions barb looked up and texted to us). ;]
minor details.
tomorrow we'll most likely continue on toward vail! woop woop!
goooooood night!
we ended up rollin out around noon. not a lot of excitement, we just.....drove.
at one point, after stopping for gas, we realized there was a wasp in our truck! ahh! we started freaking out, laura decided to drive in 2 lanes on the interstate, and we kept losing sight of it and then it would pop up again out of nowhere. scary! finally, i whacked that little booger out my open window and we were safe! it took a lot of tries though. that wasp was a tricky little feller..
also, laura lost the charger for her gps, so we went cruisin through the backroads of denver and eventually found our hotel thanks to our killer instincts (ie, a mixture of my phone, an atlas, and the google maps directions barb looked up and texted to us). ;]
minor details.
tomorrow we'll most likely continue on toward vail! woop woop!
goooooood night!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
day 56
championship sunday..
um things went well. beautiful weather - absolutely perfect. otherwise, not much to report.
cleanup, however, took like 4 hours. i don't know why though, because as we were packing up it didn't seem like it was taking forever but then i would look at my watch and it would just be so much later than i expected. i've made the executive decision to blame our extremely slow packing up job on event-director cole, based on the fact that he's the worst event director we've had.
anywhoo, we finally rolled out of des moines around six, then i met up with the fam in minden while laura drove the truck to her casa. we get to stay at home tonight and then we leave for vail tomorrow morning. vail will be my last tourney! i'm excited to be done, but i'm also surprised that it came so soon!
ah. anyway, this wasn't a very exciting post. i think i've been getting pretty lazy on my posting. maybe i'll spice it up with more stories next week since it'll be my final week of blogging.....
eh, we'll see. ;]
gute nacht!
um things went well. beautiful weather - absolutely perfect. otherwise, not much to report.
cleanup, however, took like 4 hours. i don't know why though, because as we were packing up it didn't seem like it was taking forever but then i would look at my watch and it would just be so much later than i expected. i've made the executive decision to blame our extremely slow packing up job on event-director cole, based on the fact that he's the worst event director we've had.
anywhoo, we finally rolled out of des moines around six, then i met up with the fam in minden while laura drove the truck to her casa. we get to stay at home tonight and then we leave for vail tomorrow morning. vail will be my last tourney! i'm excited to be done, but i'm also surprised that it came so soon!
ah. anyway, this wasn't a very exciting post. i think i've been getting pretty lazy on my posting. maybe i'll spice it up with more stories next week since it'll be my final week of blogging.....
eh, we'll see. ;]
gute nacht!
Saturday, July 24, 2010
day 55
super saturday.
we got to the fields, set stuff up (cole was no help), and then we had a somewhat busy morning checking people in and things like that but after the initial rush it turned into a regular old saturday. we chilled out under the tent, laura updated scores, and i fell asleep in the chair again. it was mostly cloudy and there was a bit of wind, but luckily no rain. it was kind of a nice change from our hot sunny tournaments. today was almost chilly at some points.
while we all hung out, cole told us some sweet life stories. and yes, that is sarcasm, because his stories weren't sweet at all. they were actually pretty dumb. and he kept telling us the same ones over and over and over again. i would rather have banged my head into the table than listen to his stories one more time.
then around lunchtime, my lovely little big sister christy came to visit me!!!!!!! it was soooo nice to see her and have her there to hang out all afternoon! we just chatted and hung out until she had to leave, then i walked her to her car. on my way back to hq, one of the field maintenance guys chatted my ear off for FORTY MINUTES. no joke. i literally checked my watch and timed it. he was just being friendly, but i actually had work to do because by that time we could start taking some stuff down. oy.
when we finally got back to the hotel, i helped cole enter results which was pointless because we ended up not being able to upload them to the internet anyway. ugh.
then we went to dinner at chili's. i don't think i've ever eaten there before and i was pleasantly surprised! it was actually pretty good!
after dinner, cole bought me and laura some stuff to make up for being such a hassle last night (muahahahaha) and then we came back to the hotel and i talked to schmabriel for a little while on ze phone.
now we're gettin ready for bed. tomorrow is championship sunday! night!
we got to the fields, set stuff up (cole was no help), and then we had a somewhat busy morning checking people in and things like that but after the initial rush it turned into a regular old saturday. we chilled out under the tent, laura updated scores, and i fell asleep in the chair again. it was mostly cloudy and there was a bit of wind, but luckily no rain. it was kind of a nice change from our hot sunny tournaments. today was almost chilly at some points.
while we all hung out, cole told us some sweet life stories. and yes, that is sarcasm, because his stories weren't sweet at all. they were actually pretty dumb. and he kept telling us the same ones over and over and over again. i would rather have banged my head into the table than listen to his stories one more time.
then around lunchtime, my lovely little big sister christy came to visit me!!!!!!! it was soooo nice to see her and have her there to hang out all afternoon! we just chatted and hung out until she had to leave, then i walked her to her car. on my way back to hq, one of the field maintenance guys chatted my ear off for FORTY MINUTES. no joke. i literally checked my watch and timed it. he was just being friendly, but i actually had work to do because by that time we could start taking some stuff down. oy.
when we finally got back to the hotel, i helped cole enter results which was pointless because we ended up not being able to upload them to the internet anyway. ugh.
then we went to dinner at chili's. i don't think i've ever eaten there before and i was pleasantly surprised! it was actually pretty good!
after dinner, cole bought me and laura some stuff to make up for being such a hassle last night (muahahahaha) and then we came back to the hotel and i talked to schmabriel for a little while on ze phone.
now we're gettin ready for bed. tomorrow is championship sunday! night!
Friday, July 23, 2010
day 54
today was pretty longgggg.....
after breakfast we went to the fields to set up schtuff. it was about 150 degrees out, plus humidity. it was sooooo hot! i had sweat running down my shins. MY SHINS. yeah, that happens.
our volunteer dudes are superb though. they set up goals for us! seriously, i love des moines. well, technically it's ankeny. but really. that's like one in the same. =]
after a nice long day at the fields, laura and i showered and left for check-in. that went pretty well, as usual. then we went to panera for dinner and treated ourselves to some ice cream for dessert. yum =]
you may be wondering where our event director was for all of this? yeah, our event director is a tool. he didn't fly in until tonight. his flight was supposed to land at 940, and he made us drive a half hour each way to pick him up. then his flight was delayed because of bad weather, so he wanted us to just hang out near the airport and wait for him to land. uh, no. we came back to the hotel and hung out, then when he called to say he finally landed in des moines, we had to get out of our comfy beds to go get him. and the cherry on top of this happy sundae was that on the drive back to the hotel, he sat there and complained about HIS life! ha! he sat around in air-conditioned airports all day! what is so hard about that? oh, but he was hung over from partying the night before. whose fault is that?! the whole reason he arrived 2 days late was because of a last minute event director switch and supposedly he couldn't find a flight to des moines until tonight. we suggested flying into omaha and then renting a car and driving the 2 hours to des moines. apparently that was too inconvenient for him. so laura and i did all of the hard work (setting up) today while he partied it up with his buddy in texas for 2 days. then he has the nerve to make us pick him up at the airport at midnight? at least we made him ride in the middle seat. but we're still nowhere near being even.
he better not expect smiles when we see him in the morning.
that is all.
good night.
after breakfast we went to the fields to set up schtuff. it was about 150 degrees out, plus humidity. it was sooooo hot! i had sweat running down my shins. MY SHINS. yeah, that happens.
our volunteer dudes are superb though. they set up goals for us! seriously, i love des moines. well, technically it's ankeny. but really. that's like one in the same. =]
after a nice long day at the fields, laura and i showered and left for check-in. that went pretty well, as usual. then we went to panera for dinner and treated ourselves to some ice cream for dessert. yum =]
you may be wondering where our event director was for all of this? yeah, our event director is a tool. he didn't fly in until tonight. his flight was supposed to land at 940, and he made us drive a half hour each way to pick him up. then his flight was delayed because of bad weather, so he wanted us to just hang out near the airport and wait for him to land. uh, no. we came back to the hotel and hung out, then when he called to say he finally landed in des moines, we had to get out of our comfy beds to go get him. and the cherry on top of this happy sundae was that on the drive back to the hotel, he sat there and complained about HIS life! ha! he sat around in air-conditioned airports all day! what is so hard about that? oh, but he was hung over from partying the night before. whose fault is that?! the whole reason he arrived 2 days late was because of a last minute event director switch and supposedly he couldn't find a flight to des moines until tonight. we suggested flying into omaha and then renting a car and driving the 2 hours to des moines. apparently that was too inconvenient for him. so laura and i did all of the hard work (setting up) today while he partied it up with his buddy in texas for 2 days. then he has the nerve to make us pick him up at the airport at midnight? at least we made him ride in the middle seat. but we're still nowhere near being even.
he better not expect smiles when we see him in the morning.
that is all.
good night.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
day 53
this morning we got up, had breakfast, and went to the fields to set up goals. apparently they were going to mow today so we couldn't put up the goals yet. so we came back to the hotel, watched some gilmore girls, then went back to kick a soccer ball around. it was so windy and our soccer balls were flat (plus our ball pump is broken) so we gave up on that pretty quickly. at that point i went for a run while laura hung out/made some phone calls. then we came back to the hotel and i showered. we pretty much just hung out for awhile, then laura's nieces (haylee and kamryn) and her sissy carrie stopped by and hung out - swam in the hotel pool and such. her nieces are adorable!! =] after that, laura and i just lay around some more (we're really good at that) and then she went to work out around 6, which is when miss SHELBY JACOBS came to pick me up!! ahhhh!!!!! it was soooo great to see her! we went to a farmer's market and grabbed dinner (which included a monster-sized monster cookie thing - like a square foot of monster cookie!), then we went to an iowa cubs baseball game, and after that we went to her casa for some choco milk and more monster cookie.....and then we went for a little adventure.. we went to a river/lake/park thing (idk the name of it) and we played on the playground for a bit before going off to the little peninsula thingy to explore. it was sooo pretty! the moon was all bright and the water was all calm......so of course we took some very scenic photos haha and after that we drove into this creepy little neighborhood thing that's hard to explain but just so we're all clear - it's CREEPY. then shelb took me back to mah hotel.
a super fun, hot and sticky, adventurous, midwestern summer night with one of my greatest friends? priceless.
haha so the majority of this post was one giant paragraph....maybe even one giant run-on sentence...i'm sorry if it's hard to follow.
but i'm too tired to figure out if it's readable or not! gute nacht!
a super fun, hot and sticky, adventurous, midwestern summer night with one of my greatest friends? priceless.
haha so the majority of this post was one giant paragraph....maybe even one giant run-on sentence...i'm sorry if it's hard to follow.
but i'm too tired to figure out if it's readable or not! gute nacht!
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