Paul Mitchell School Hair Color and Cut

I finally just decided to do it. Yes, return to my natural hair color. So, I made an appointment at the Paul Mitchell School down the road from BYU, and showed up for it today.

I was a little worried about doing it because it is the school and they aren't professionals, but I decided that friends and family have been the only ones to color my hair in the past, and this is at least one step up (if not more). And I went with the Phase II school, which is basically their honors program.

I got a really nice girl who did it. It ended up taking like 4 hours if you will believe it. I left home at 10 and got back at 3, which with 30 minutes travel time there and back on a bike is 4 hours in the actual chair. Crazy! But, as you can see, it turned out great! I love it! And-- the happiest part-- this means I won't have to color my hair again when it grows out! :)








Sorry, I went a little picture-happy, but there it is.

On another note, last night I had a dream I got engaged to this guy in my ward. Weird. It's going to be pretty funny to talk to him on Sunday. Let's see if I can do it without laughing.

I also dreamed I went to my friend Andy's farewell, but the microphone wasn't working so no one heard anything of his talk except the epic last line. lol (Yes, my dreams are very varied).

Spontaneous Paleontology

I really like that title, by the way. Those are some fun words! :)

So, today on my way home from classes, I decided to stop by BYU's Paleontology Museum. I'd heard about it but never been. It turned out to be pretty neat! I believe most of the fossils were found here in Utah and Colorado.

I just like this shot with all the skeletons in it.

Standing in the rib cage of the dinosaur looking forward (that's the neck)

Triceratops skull

Cast of the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex head ever found.
This type of cast is rare because now they leave all the hollow parts of the skull filled in when they copy fossils.

Now that's a scary view...

It's huge!
"I've got a big head, and little arms. I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through.. master?"
-Meet the Robinsons

NOT a pterodactyl.. I'm not sure what it's called though.

Giant Land Sloth
Holy cow, this is cool!
It was as big as an elephant, and as tall as a giraffe when it stood on its back legs!
Unfortunate face, though...

Sweet shot.

1. Throw the bone.
-Night at the Museum

Me in the land before time....

Up Close and Personal

I would not have liked to get this close to the real thing...

Me standing in the rib cage of a dinosaur.
(The Smithsonian would never let me do this)

I just liked my screaming face in this one :-O

I don't look too worried that my head is inside this massive thing's mouth

I think I might have liked being a Jurassic period dentist

What an Unfortunate Face
-No wonder they are extinct now-

(I couldn't decide how mean it was to make fun of fossils, so here I go anyway)

So, ugliness aside, I highly recommend you go check out the museum next time you're in Provo.

Pioneer Day

Well, it was my first time ever celebrating Pioneer Day.

I just had one question... how DO you celebrate Pioneer Day?

Well, my answer to that turned out to be a bike ride to Utah Lake with a good friend of mine, Ashley Jones, who you might remember from my random trip to Idaho with her.

Now, I think you could read some symbolism into the bike ride, like we were commemorating the westward movement of the Saints by riding west from Provo to Utah Lake, but we also went back, and besides we weren't thinking of that anyway :) And 12 miles is pretty incomparable to the 1300 they traveled.

Here's the Provo River roughly outlined in blue, courtesy of Google Maps. The trail runs right along side the river for most of the trail, so you can get an idea. You can even see BYU campus shaded on the right side of the picture for reference.


I think it's about 6 miles one way, making a total of 12 miles round-trip. What a great ride!

A view of Utah Lake at the end of the trail

Some other bikers we ran into at the end of the trail. I assume they were from BYU because several of them had BYU shirts on... lol.
And doesn't Ashley look gorgeous?

Intense bikers

Ashley's hair flipping skills

No hands!

No hands!
(I love the sky in this one)

No hands AND my eyes are closed..
now that's some skills

We figured it was really hard to get a picture of both of us riding together....

Hey, we finally got a pretty good one.

Look at that focus!

Goofy

She's so fast she's just a blur

The trail is so pretty <3

She was sticking her leg out but I go it too late.
She calls this a bum shot...

And a pretty shot of the Provo River

So, folks, that is how your celebrate Pioneer Day.