Sunday, May 22, 2011

My adventure so far....


Becca did so much better than I did.



Me attempting to get all 3 of us and the mountains in the picture



Megan, Me and Becca standing on the fozen lake



Holding up Mount Moran



It is a little chilly standing on a frozen lake at the end of May.



Getting as close as she dared to the edge after almost falling in



Getting a little bit closer... and almost falling in



Slowly inching to the edge... What will happen?!?!?



Becca standing on the lake



The frozen lake at Leek's Marina

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Colter Bay Village

I have been here at Colter Bay since Sunday afternoon. I was one of the few people who checked into the dorms that day. Since then people are slowly trinkling in. My friend Rebecca from last year arrived on monday. It was nice to actually have a friend here at the beginning of the season who I know that I can have a lot of fun with, especially when it comes to stocking the grocery store. The weather has been good. Most of the days it has been blue skys and partly cloudy but it is still cold here. It is the middle of May and in Wyoming there is still snow. Here at the dorms in some areas the snow is several feeet tall but in other areas just a few inches. The lake is frozen but is starting to melt slowly. I feel like this year here working at Colter Bay will be a good season. When I got here on sunday I didn't feel regret like I did when I arrived last season. Last season was fun but sometimes there was a feeling of regret. I don't feel that this year. I love Wyoming, and Colter Bay. If I could and really wanted to I would keep coming back and working here every summer. I get a peaceful feeling whenever I am here. My well of water had drained out really fast during the winter and now that I am here, I will be able to fill my well to overflowing(my mom would understand that). I am on my new adventure for the next four months and I am ready for it.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

The Tulip Festival


















Yesterday I was in American Fork visiting my sister and her family, and my parents and Elena were there as well. Not very far away at Thanksgiving Point they were having The Tulip Festival. We had decided that we would go to The Tulip Festival. It was absolutely beautiful. I am glad that I was able to go to Thanksgiving Point with mom, dad, and Elena. I didn't realize that Thanksgiving Point had so much land to have gardens like they did. When we got there, we thought that we should have brought Matayia and Kaitlin because they would have loved seeing the tulips, feeding the fish, and maybe even the Secret Garden as well. There were several different colors, and variety of tulips. Absolutely wonderful. More pictures to come.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Hogle Zoo Adventure



A few months ago I had told my friend Jamie that I wanted to go to Hogle Zoo. It had been several years since I had been to the Hogle Zoo. Jamie and I had decided that we would spend the night in Salt Lake City and then go to Hogle Zoo the next day. It was a last get together before I head up to Wyoming. To be honest I am not planning on ever moving back down to Ephraim ever again. I might come and visit Tracie and Travis but that would be the only times I would be in Ephraim. But back to the adventure of Hogle Zoo. So Jamie and I had left on Tuesday and we did some shopping at some DIs and thrift stores. The hotel that we stayed at was in Sugar House. It was pretty. There was a river running behind it and there were two ducks by the hotel room. We were able to go to the movie theater and watch Soul Surfer which was so good. Parts of it made me cry. The next day we finally made up to Hogle Zoo but it had taken us awhile to get there because we got lost at the U of U campus because we made a wrong turn or the directions we got were a little misleading. Spending a few hours at Hogle Zoo was a lot of fun. There were a lot of elementary school age kids there on a field trip and it was fun watching them and hearing the conversations they were having. It was fun seeing the animals and taking pictures. There were elephants, rhinos, tigers, a leopard, and monkeys, plus many other animals as well. The one giraffe that was out was 14 ft tall and I didn't get to see the blue tongue. But I did get to see 2 wolves playing with eachother.

Monday, March 28, 2011

No man can walk out of his own story.

A week ago I went and saw the movie Rango. There was a line in the movie that was said that made me really think. It is "No man can walk out of his own story." That line has gotten me really thinking. We are all living a story and we can determine how that story turns out. Not once can we walk out of that story. Every choice that we make or have made helps determine where the story goes. Each person helps play a part in your story while they are leading their story. If you don't like how the story is going, you can't walk out of it. You need to see how the story ends and figure out how to see the story ends. That is the adventure of life and the story. It is the anticipation of what it will turn out to be like.