potato potaaato

yes, yes i do

so this last week i was in idaho and utah.  i had a super, duper fun to the max trip and you all should be jealous.  nbd. that stands for No Big Deal.  which, clearly, it actually is.  i decided i would like to do a day by day recap of the highlights.  ENJOY!

friday: woke up at 2:10 am and was on the road with donuts by 2:30.  around 7 am and a third of the way to idaho i realized i was very tired.  now keep in mind that i haven't had caffeine since june.  so i stop in the gas station and i saw the little 5 hour energy bottles and i decided i would try that.  for about the first 30 minutes it was amazing.  i said to myself 'self, this must be what it is like when a person who has a.d.d. gets drugs for the first time.'  and then my brain proceeded to do back flips.  and i got an itchy rash from my chest to my eyes.  but i was not sleepy throughout the drive... or for like the next 15 hours.  though after about hour 7 my speech was all crazy.  the good news is, i made it safely to idaho and at a reasonable hour.

don't we look like idahoans?

saturday: we went to chiz's.it was... not... what i expected.  but it was delicious.  they have the world's best ranch and they sell it at the grocery store and i was totally going to buy some... and then i forgot.  james and caroline each got a stuffed animal and james named them bubbles and... mr jesus.  the stuffed animals didn't come from chiz's but they did get them on saturday.

sunday: i almost said nothing happened on sunday but then i realized that was a terrible, awful, no good lie.  because the most amazing thing happened on sunday.  we toured the jeppesen family farm.  do you guys know where potatoes come from?  well, you wouldn't believe it if i told you.  it's something you have to see for yourself.  i assure though, it is INCREDIBLE.  sadly the only photo i currently have of that experience is the aftermath...

yum!

that picture doesn't really do the potato justice.  trust me it was amazing.  anyway, we got to dig potatoes out of the ground and drive around in a potato truck and see where they keep millions of potatoes and... everything.  it just was amazing.  farms are amazing.

monday:  we got annie!  i got to see my dear friend annie and she told me she was going to a hay maze later that day so we decided to go to the hay maze too.  we loaded everybody up and made our way over there.  the hay maze was... shockingly difficult.  we were in the maze for over an hour and never found our way out.  we used an emergency exit to get out and went home crying.  the crying was mostly because hay had fallen down the back of my pants and it was very pokey.

tuesday: i realized i lost my debit card in the hay maze.  YAY.  that made for a very stressful morning.  while i was searching the house, james (who had no idea what was missing, only that i was looking for something) said 'i took it and hid it and now you have to stay here forever.'  and i was worried that maybe i was going to have to stay there forever b/c how was i going to put gas in the car?!?  luckily i found a branch for my bank like half an hour away and i was able to continue on with my life.  i drove to provo.  had dinner with michael and his roommate... michael.  remembering things is very easy when you only have to remember one thing.  fact.  went to brianna's and had a quick catch up chat.  yay!

wednesday: had job interviews.  both went well.  from the interviews i learned that i type 55 words per minute and that my friends all think i am likable... which is good since they are my friends.  more later on the interviews, i'm sure.  in the evening we went on a very scary pirate adventure.

sooooo scary

and by scary, i mean not at all.  unless you count when michael and i almost got hit in the head by a tree.  the boat was propelled by a pirate man holding on to a rope system and pulling us along.  the man was either very strong or it is very easy to do b/c he also told us stories about pumpkins... and uhmmm... other stuff but i stopped listening before he got to the other stuff.  after that we met up with a handfull of other folks (rva reunion woo woo) at a crepe place and we all acted fancy and frenchy.

thursday:  i met mandy and her family for breakfast and we had a quick catch up session about what has happened the last FIVE YEARS.  it was amazing and fun and i adoooooore her.  and then i got on the road.

ELEVEN HOURS LATER

yay traffic in primm

I'M BACK AT MY HOUSE IN CALIFORNIA

THE END