Girls day out to San Francisco!

Last Wednesday Nikki, Andrea and I decided to hop on board the first flight out to San Francisco and spend the day there. None of us had ever been there so it was a really cool experience to be able to explore a new city and see some of the famous sites that San Francisco is known for. It was neat to see things like China town, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge (even though the smog was horrible and you could barely see it). It seems so strange to me to see how different every city is and how much personality there is in San Francisco. The day was a ton of fun with shopping, walking, site-seeing, and of course taking the opportunity to eat at In n' Out burger for lunch. 

At Ghiradelli Square...a little loopy from lack of sleep

by this time our feet were killing us and it felt like it was about 100 degrees outside...but still tons of fun!

if you look real close you can see the golden gate bridge...andrea was pretty excited

then we found Alcatraz....it was much closer than it looks

They had all sort of cheapy shops in China Town...I was tempted to get a counterfeit purse...but didn't get around to it. 

dash point and rummikub

It feels like the summer is winding down, and I feel like I only have a few days off work before it's time to go back to school. There's nothing I love more then spending time at dash point and playing a rousing game of rummikub. The one thing that I miss so much when I go to Idaho is the water. I have always been used to  having an abundance of places to go if I ever wanted to be in the water, but in Rexburg the closest you get to a large body of water is the river. So I'm going to take advantage of the beaches and the sun as much as I can before I go back to school. 

Medford!

My family went down to Medford to visit Linda, Mario, Adam and of course baby Tyler. Since Linda and the baby needed a lot of rest we spent a lot of time out and about with Adam. On one of the days then we rented a van and drove down to the redwood forest and the ocean in California. We had lots of fun in the car with Adam taking pictures. Once we got to the beach Adam had a lot of fun running away from the waves. It's always fun to visit Medford, even if it only is for a couple of days.

Rafting at Browns Point

There's nothing I love more on my day off then enjoying the summer sun and doing something water related. Andrea and I both have thursdays off so we usually try to do something fun together that day. The other week we decided to dig through Andrea's garage and bring her inflatable raft to brown's point. We went over to subway to pick up some sandwiches so that we could have a nice little picnic at the beach. After we got the raft inflated we pretty much just floated around in the raft relaxing in the sun. Every once in a while then we would realize that we had drifted pretty far off from browns point and would have to quickly paddle back. There's not many things better in life than the sun, the water, and lots of girly talk with one of your best friends!

Day trip to San Diego

The other week than I decided to finally take advantage of my flight benefits and take a day trip to San Diego. I hadn't seen Jessica in a long time since she had been at school in Idaho during summer semester. Her birthday was July 25 so I decided that it would be a fun little birthday present to go take a day and relax on the beaches in San Diego. We took the bus from the airport to Mission beach. Mission beach is a very busy beach, but is a great place to walk around and go people watching. My favorite part was watching everyone trying to surf and actually see people playing in the ocean, which I am not used to in Washington. Even though I loved the California beaches, I still love the Puget Sound and would never trade the nasty sea weed of Dash point for the white sand of Southern California 

What I do when I should be sleeping

8 Things I Am Passionate About
1. Friends
2. Family
3. Church
4. Dancing
5. partying
6. the water
7. nail polish
8. driving old man cars

8 Books I Have Read And Enjoyed
1. Twilight
2. New Moon
3. Eclipse
4. Harry Potter
5. anything by mary higgins clark
6. Nancy Drew...haha..I haven't read anything in a while
7. Hop on Pop
8. Anne of Green Gables

8 Words/Phrases I Say Often
1. oh snap!
2. don't judge me harshly
3. amazing!
4. lame
5. seriously
6. haha
7. dude
8. freak

8 Things I Want To Do Before I Die (in no particular order)
1. go to holland
2. get married/have a family
3. Have an attractive house
4. visit every ocean
5. travel somewhere farther than utah
6. have a sweet car
7. graduate from college
8. learn how to not be afraid of people

8 Things I Learned This Past Year
1. the puget sound rocks
2. how to live on my own
3. how to make top ramen several different ways
4. life is expensive
5. partying is definitely the thing to do
6. washington geology is more exciting then idaho geology
7. Friends are amazing
8. how to work at an airport

8 People I Want To Tag
1. Mom
2. Linda
3. Valerie
4. Pam
5. Jacki
6. Chris
7. Adrian

8. Karen

Flight ot the Conchords

Tonight at work while I was checking peoples bags, then a guy came up to me who looked exactly like one of the guys from Flight of the Conchords (if you don't know what that is...then it is these 2 comedians from New Zealand who have a TV show). Anyways...after he gave me a New Zealand passport and I realized that the item he was checking was a guitar I thought there was a chance he might actually be the same guy. After confirming the name with wikipedia I found out that it actually was Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords...I thought it was pretty exciting..

July 4th

For the fourth of July a few of my friends and I decided to go to Celebration park to watch the fireworks. This is a tradition that I have done for several years with my family..but this year it seems that there wasn't much family around on the fourth of July...it was weird not having the typical spot on the grass with tons of cousins, aunts, and uncles around..but it was still tons of fun. Before the fireworks started then Keith, Nikki, and I tried to take a picture fitting all three of us..much easier said then done...by the time the fireworks started then we had taken probably 20 pictures....but this is just a snip of some of the pictures and what it took to take them...like holding the camera upside down.

Happy Birthday Ian!

Everyone only turns 19 once. Ian decided to celebrate his big day last weekend, and what better way to celebrate then with a super hero themed party. With the invites , Ian mentioned that if we weren't dressed up he wouldn't let us through the front door. Nikki and I took this threat to heart and decided to dress up like teenage mutant ninja turtles. The party was a ton of fun. Everyone from Superman, to Darth Vader, to Logan Davidson came....I 'm questioning the validity of some of these super heros...but it was all good.
Nikki and I looking sweet in our ninja turtles costumes

What party would be complete without "pin the tail on the donkey"...
...I mean..."stick the batman logo on the batman"

The cake even had a picture of Ian as young Superman...
...Keith enjoyed staring lovingly at young Ian's face

Rattle Snakes Ledge!

The weekend before last I had the opportunity to go on a hike to Rattle Snakes Ledge. It was a singles branch activity and since usually those activities are a lot of fun I decided I didn't want to miss it. It was a beautiful hike not far off from North Bend. The only problem was that it happened to be 95 degrees that day and we started the hike at about 11am....It was very hot!!! Although the hike is only 2 miles up I thought I was going to die after not too long. Finally I made it to the top and it was totally worth the beautiful view. We spent about 40 minutes up there eating lunch and enjoying the view. The pictures don't do it justice, but here they are anyways. I would definitely suggest this hike!

The whole group at the top of the ledge

Me, Nikki, JJ, and Bobby

It doesn't look that high..but it was

Take me out to the ball game! take 2

So if you read my previous post about International Pirate Day, You'll know that we (meaning me, nikki, danny, bobby, and JJ) were planning on going to the Mariners game that day...but since that didn't work out, we went last weekend. It was a really great day for a Mariners game, the sun was shining and the sky was blue. We played the Washington Nationals (I've been so out of the baseball loop for too long, I didn't even realize this team existed). The game wasn't too exciting (during the Mariner's only run we were out buying 8 dollar hot dogs), and the Mariners ended up losing, but all in all we had a fun time at the ball game. We even got to see some drunk guys get kicked out of the stadium! always fun!

Life at Alaska Airlines!

This summer, thanks to Terence's help, I was able to get a job at Alaska Airlines. I am working at the airport as a CSA (Customer Service Agent). I just finished my first week of on the job training at the airport and really like the job so far. One thing that my instructor told me is that once a passenger walks into the airport there is a weird phenomenon where they forget how to be rational, and everything is now your fault, whether it's the traffic or the weather or the fact that the person couldn't find their car keys, it's still your fault. I'm sure the job will be pretty stressful at times but I'm sure I'll be able to handle it. On my classes first day at the airport we took a tour of the airport and of course had to stop for our picture opportunities.

One thing that Alaska Airlines tries to do is make every department aware of what all the other departments do so we can better understand the company. It was neat to see all of the behind the scenes of the airport and see all the things that have to go together to make an airline run properly.