BEST. WEEKEND. EVER!

This weekend was epic. Like seriously, seriously epic.

I'm gonna have to skip over Friday for un-obvious reasons to those of you who read this. I may explain this at a later date, but for now... it's a secret. Let's just say it started with some card games, got super spontaneous, was filled with laughter and juvenile frivolity. Other than that all I can say is that there was a concert in the streets of campus and it was crazy. It also ended at five in the morning when we finally decided to go to bed. (We being my roommates Rachel and Emily, Emily's cousin Lindsay, and myself).

Saturday started just like any other day, perhaps starting a little too early for how late I was up the night before. But then the words, "Um... Do you want to drive to Bear Lake for a few hours?" came out of my roommate Emily's lips. If I had any plans before that, the words "Bear Lake" immediately changed them. I can NEVER pass up an opportunity to visit my heaven on Earth. So Emily, Lindsay, and I packed up the car with games and food and made the drive up to the most beautiful place on this planet. Our plan was to have a picnic on the beach but we didn't even last ten minutes outside. It was freaking COLD! We jumped back in my car where we could enjoy God's nature in the warmth. We ate lunch, ate junk food, played some card games, talked, listened to music, and unrolled our windows and fed the seagulls (ok...ok... that was just me). If I remember right I also got out and danced around like a seagull and made seagull squawking noises. What can I say? Bear Lake brings out the inner child in me. Oh, and did I mention the part where I drew things in the sand, balanced on a log in the water, and ran around like a crazy person? Yeah, well. Maybe I should just keep that to myself. Ahem... anyway... So after our Bear Lake adventures we drove home and as soon as we entered our apartment we decided that we needed to pull a prank on our roommate Kenzi who was away for the weekend. Emily came up with the idea to fill her room with hundreds of cups of water. It was brilliant. Since she has a blog called "Love Me Some Lemons" we decided to go one step further and put lemon slices on each cup, and make a heart in the middle with red food coloring in the water. We went to the store and got our supplies (Rachel and Leisha joined us at this point) and came home to start the deed. Emily knew where Kenzi's spare key was hidden, but alas, Kenzi was highly suspicious that we would prank her so she hid her key. Dang. But we were not to be deflected just yet. We called up our landlord and told him that Kenzi had locked herself out. He came to unlock her door and we told him that she was at work, but would be home later that night. He unlocked her door for us without any question. Thank you Dennis! We're In! As the prank is going along we quickly realized that we didn't buy enough supplies. So it's back to the store for more cups and lemons. We finish the prank and it looks great. As we are sitting around talking we then decide we should have a dinner party the next day and invite all of our friends seeing as it is our last Sunday as roommates. So... It's back to the store for the third time that day. (Fourth for me since I went earlier that day to pick up my prescription and get treats for Bear Lake). Emily and I then raced to clean the apartment so it would be suitable for guests. We were exhausted by then but being the smart people we are we did not go to bed but watched an episode of Prison Break.

Sunday we went to church, which was very good as always. Afterwards we came home to prepare dinner. We made Hawaiian haystacks with Emily's yummy salad and Kenzi's brownies for dessert. Here is the people who came (just so that I can remember myself)

Kristi

Emily

Kenzi

Leisha

Rachel

Lindsay

Kylie

Lauren

Adam

Alex

Ryan

So yeah. It was a pretty good turn out. After dinner we went to the CES fireside that was being broadcast from the Spectrum (GO USU!). The speaker was Sister Wixom who is the General Primary President of the church. I really enjoyed her remarks and the choir was awesome! After the fireside Morgan, Jordan, and Kylie came to our apartment to play games with me, Emily, Lindsay, and Rachel. When the games were done Kylie, Emily, Lindsay and I watched "God's Army", where we all fell asleep, finally having our long nights, early mornings, adventurous weekend, catch up with us.

And now for the most important part. While we were playing games on Sunday Leisha runs out of her bedroom and tells us that Osama Bin Laden is dead. We quickly turned on the news to watch the report. I couldn't believe it. After ten long years, we finally got him! I was so filled with American pride as I watched all of those people dancing in the streets waving the American flag. We heard fireworks going off somewhere in Logan and knew that others were celebrating the news as well. My mind quickly turned to the families who suffered losses from the attacks on 9/11 almost ten years ago. It must be so relieving to know that the one responsible for their loss is now gone. Osama Bin Laden might as well be named Hitler Jr., and so yes, this is a big deal! May 1, 2011 is one for the history books! I may not be the biggest fan of President Obama, but I thought his words last night were very touching. I almost cried as I sat listening to our president announce to the world that an evil, despicable man, was caught by our own military men. Those men are heroes. If you missed the report, here it is. It is worth watching.

And now for some pictures.....