The past three weeks have been just that. As far as life in general goes, things are excellent. Here's the run down of what has made life soo good:
-I got into the creative track of the advertising program at BYU and am stoked!!
-I should either be headed to New York or Chicago this summer for an internship
-Working grounds means I am back outside, and for the most part can make work into a good thing
-My special edition LEGO Moleskine arrived in the mail
-Mother's Cookies came out with Jungle Animal cookies
-My milk drinking is as strong as ever; a gallon every 30 hours
-I have spend each of the past three weekends with great friends on amazing adventures
-And, so long as I keep my shirt on, I have a great tan!
Things are great. These weekend adventures are making me appreciate just how great friends are and how many exciting places there are to visit all within a few hours of Provo. Week 1 was backpacking up Horsetail Falls Trail by Alpine with a group of Adkids that I love. Thank you Scott Talbot for that one. Week 2 took me to Goblin Valley--brainchild adventure of Eric Schneck and Jason Taylor--with a great group from the ward. (side note: Goblin Valley is the same place a scene from Galaxy Quest was filmed, the first time I ever saw Dwight Schrute on film)
Week 3, this past weekend, was a trip down to Moab to visit Arches National Park, with 20 of my new favorite wardies. I am addicted to this new way of living. It is Sunday and I am already thinking up this coming weekends adventure. Growing up, we never did a lot of outdoorsy things as a family... besides living in the country. I don't remember us going camping, or hiking, or anything remotely similar. So now, not trying to bash on the family, there is just a lot that I feel I missed in this aspect of my life and I am soaking it up. I could spend the whole summer doing this if I end up staying here in Utah. On each trip I have become the unofficial photographer and it has been a lot of fun getting cool photos of the scenery and the groups that I have been with.
Basically, I have always wanted to be an outdoors person. This is my beginning into that dream. Now I need to start getting my own equipment...
Wowza, that was less than two years ago. You really need to write on this thing more often. There is a lot of history missing from this hiatus, wouldn't you say. And this, "Growing up, we never did a lot of outdoorsy things as a family... besides living in the country. I don't remember us going camping, or hiking, or anything remotely similar." You could substitute a lot of stuff in this sentence. Make it a mad lib. That'd be funny.
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