Monday, July 20, 2009

Horse dander and saltwater pools...

Today I woke up, had myself some monkey bread and got ready to head over to my aunt and uncle's house where we would meet my uncles, my cousin, and the wellings and have food and play with the animals and just hang out.

We got there and while food was grilling, Stephanie, Emily and I ran to watch the horses. A bit later we got the horses out (Merlin, Poco, and Princess) and groomed them and Poco gave a ride to Emily and Princess gave many pony rides with my cousin leading her about. Then we ate, drank, talked, played with the dog (very adorable Nikki, a pitbull/shepherd) and the cats, and brushed them all. Emily insisted on giving Nikki sticks. Nikki kept chasing the horses...and then Aunt Joan made Nikki apologize, which was fun to watch...How can dogs look so apologetic and so mischievous at the same time? After people started to leave, I went and danced with Nemo the bird...that was fun too, crazy bird.

Once we got home we went to the pool again and then cooked out marshmallows and watched Allison and Noah act crazy playing cards...all in all another good day. Days are always good when they end up covered with horse dander and saltwater :)

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Fireflies, Fields, and ATVs...

So in the past few days I have been to target...been to a real mall, seen Harry potter, went to macaroni grill, hung out with some friends....

Went to Franklin and Marshall, watched Disney Channel, went to the pool....

Went to Hershey Chocolate Tour, the Harley Davidson Factory, the mall, and then to some more friends' house...

When we were at the Hershey place yesterday there was a singing cupcake making girl (I want that job by the way) who gave us a HUGE cupcake so I was on a sugar rush for about 3 hours...twas awesome...then we drove to the Harley place and walked through a hot room where motorcycle parts...then steph and emily and I sang really loud in the car...video may or may not be posted... :)

WE went to zee mall...more stuff...theres lots of just stuff back here in the states...all over actually...now im just realizing it....

Today we got up had an awesome breakfast of pancakes, eggs, bacon, and such and then got ready to go to Suessical.
Suessical was fantastic, it was a HUGE cast which made the stage a bit too crowded at some points but this, probably under age 25, cast could dance and harmonize like crazy. There were all these little kids dancing and EVERYONE was harmonizing. It was awesome. The Welling's knew one of the Wickersham brothers so we talked with him a while after the show. He had an hour break before the next show's call time...Man, I loved when we did 2 shows in a day... Then we got ice cream. Really good ice cream. :)

When we got back the moms and I went to all these stores to get stuff for dinner. We went to the farm, the little stores and Food Lion...not that exiting but still kinda fun. After that I headed across the street to the pool to hang out a bit before dinner.

We had steak, corn, potatoes, and fruit with some ice tea...very good dinner for Sarah. Yum. Before and after dinner we rode on the neighbor's ATV back in the field behind the house. When we went after dinner all the fireflies were out and the sun was setting so it was pretty amazing.

After the ATV rides we went across the street again to the fire pit and made smores and melted bottles and set marshmallows on fire... :D
Good day.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Quick Timeline

Because I am a loser and don't post often here is a timeline of the past 7 months:
January- Rome, THIMUN, Aida auditions
February- AIDA, JSHS, Southern Italy
March- AIDA, ISLI
April- AIDA Shows, National JSHS, Paris
May-London
June- Prom, Germany
July-Germany, the States

Ok, now we are in the states on the East coast
DAY ONE:
So I woke up at 4 in the morning....uber fun start right there.
I got up grabbed my bags and we headed to the airport. On the way downstairs I hear the sounds of Halo (Note that this is like 0445), of course I think of this as perfectly logical and ask Kyle if he happens to have any gum. A few seconds later it hits me that its 5 in the morning. And Caitlyn, Kyle and Alex are still sitting on the couch as they were 7 hours before. They have been up all night. I laughed at them. Now I feel their pain.
We got on the plane, smooth flight, I listen to Footloose and the Wedding Singer and fall asleep. Twas great fun.
Then comes the 3 hour layover...not bad except for my computer bag being WAY heavier than I thought it would be. We looked in all the little shops full of expensive stuff before getting on the plane. Terry from Footloose was on all our flights, small world we live in. :)
Plane was cool, little screens on the seat with DISNEY CHANNEL and some movies (He's not that into you). So Steph and I watched close to 3 hours of Disney shows we had never seen before...Disney is different these days...more shows created for the stars than stars made from the shows... Then we watched Aida, well, listened to it while I organized 3 years worth of photos on my computer.
Then we landed after some sleep and went to the hotel where I promptly made some coffee.
And here I be. Waiting for plans and exited to possibly see Harry Potter tomorrow :)