March 22-28

Sorry this is like a week late again...

Sunday I got to attend a broadcast of the Draper, UT Temple in the Marriott Center at BYU. If you don't know what the Marriott is, it's the big basketball arena. They do devotionals and stuff there too. Well, about 3/4 of the place was filled, and we watched the broadcast on the screens. IT was great! How cool. The best part was that I had gotten to walk though it. I went to two Open Houses! Ahh! The Celestial room was amazing. That chandelier is amazingly huge. It's sooo gorgeous. Anyway, it was so cool to see the whole Marriott center full of waving white handkerchiefs during the hosanna shout. Bliss.

For FHE Monday night we played the Skittle game. It's really fun, but you get light headed if you are too intense. Everyone goes around rolling the dice and if you get doubles or a five, you grab the bowl of Skittle and start transfering them to your cup by sicking them with a straw. It's really funny to watch. You have to be fast too. I did well at the beginning, but then I stunk the rest of the game. It's really competitive and crazy.

Tuesday we went to the temple in the morning. My, John, Neil, DaNae, Ashley, and Ali. Neil is endowed now, so he did confirmations, witnessing, and baptizing. It was so cool to see him being all priesthoody :) He was trying to baptize us all, but our group got separated, so he only got to do John.

I spent like the whole day writing a paper for my anthropology class. I was in the Wilk at first, but the fire alarm went off so I moved to the JKB and sat on the floor there for hours. I got it done though, and then John called to play basketball so I got a ride home too!

We've been playing basketball (knockout, really) with just a group of friends a few days a week. It was fun. I really like it because it gives me endorphins and I get to spend time with my friends being comeptitive.

That night Ali (one of the girls I went to Idaho with) came over to spend time with me. We stretched together (for health class) and watched TV, and practiced the Canadian national anthem (she's teaching me), and then she edited my paper for me. It was really good, but she stayed until 1:30 in the morning, so we were getting pretty loopy.... lol!

Wednesday night Ali came over the boys' apartment with me and we did their dishes together then made homemade oreo cookies. Ali played Andy's trumpet for a little bit too. We got her to play "O Canada" into the wall, where the Canadian boys live next door. Then we delivered the cookies to a couple guys' apartments in the ward. We ended waking up the Elder's Quorum president because we didn't realize he was in bed. But, hey, we brought him cookies!

Thursday I took a nap on a nursing couch in the bathroom in the Clyde Engineering building. It is seriously the best nap spot I've found. It's in it's own little nook in the bathroom and its such a big comfortable couch. I slept 6 hours there once.. Yeah that was a wasted day. But I only did like 4 hours this time :) I love it.

Thursday night I went with DaNae to a job recruiting meeting for APX Alarm. It was for a Data Entry position. I really like the job description, and the meeting and group interview went really well. Unfortunately though, I didn't get the job. I got a letter in the mail about a week later telling me so. Oh well.

Ashley got this gorgeous Canadian in our ward to go on a date with DaNae. Her and I had been planning a picnic date for Saturday morning. Neil was going with me, and DaNae's date couldn't make it. So Ashley hooked her up with Parker, who happens to be her hometeacher. He's possibly the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen, and he's possibly the sweetest thing I've ever met too. Ahhh.

So Friday I spent getting ready for the date. I went to Shopko and found a bunch of shirts on sale that were super cute. I was gonna wear one on the date. Then I went to Buy Low and bought groceries for the date. Delicious food. Seriously. I had way too much fun there. Then I spend the rest of the day making chocolate covered strawberries, making cresent rolls, chicken salad and the like. Delish!

That night I played volleyball in the dark with Ashley, Ali, and Neil. It was fun. But it was dark so it was also a little dangerous. Eek. After that we went to Ashley's apartment and watched "My Fair Lady" until it was 1:30 and we had to kick out Neil. I went home too. It was sooo late. We finished watching it Saturday night. I love that movie! It's been so long since I've seen it.

So Saturday morning I got to go to the baptism of this guy in our ward from Nepal. His name is Pradip. It was soo cool to see a baptism, especially since I don't think they are that common in BYU wards. There was another guy from Nepal baptized on my birthday. I missed that one though.

So, after the baptism Parker and Neil came over (and DaNae) and we got packed for the picnic. We got our bikes and pumped up the tires then headed off. He took the Provo River trail to Utah lake. It was about a 45 minute bike ride. DaNae kept having bike problems. First she couldn't get the brakes to work (she was borrowing Ashley's bike) so she wrecked on the side of the road. Then Neil let her ride his bike, but then the seat was too high, and then she wrecked again. So they switched back and she figured out the breaks and we were pretty much smooth sailing from there. Parker was really sweet and helped her up and stuff and rode slow with her. Neil jets off and I'm left trying to keep up with him. Lol.

We got to Utah Lake and realized you had to pay to get in the park, so we just headed back and picked a spot along the bank of the river to have our picnic. Oh man, we had so much food. It was great! I remembered my cell phone played music, so we listened to that. Everyone loved my improvised chicken salad. I was even surprised with how much I liked it! Anyway, we ate a glorious lunch and talked and it was wonderful. Then we started the trek back. It seemed to go faster than the ride there. After we got back DaNae had to head off to do homework and Parker too. Neil hung around a bit, and I told him I'd proof-read his English paper. He came back a couple hours later to bring it to me, and took a nap on the couch while I read through it.

So that was my week..... sorry if I bored you, but I tried to pick the most exciting parts of my week. Love you all and miss you.