One of my old roommates used to have "Adventure" days with a bunch of our friends. They would dedicate one night a week to be their "adventure" day. One year it was Wednesdays. Another year it was Thursdays. Then if there was something cool happening on another day of the week, they'd change the evening for just that week. I wasn't able to, or didn't go most of the time. Not that we didn't like each other, but we just did different things with our free time. Although some of their adventures sounded pretty great... :)
My month of July of this year has reminded me of Heather's "Adventure" days. But instead of it being a day every week, it's been every weekend and 2 of the 4 weeks.
At the beginning of the month, my family had a mini reunion of sorts. 5 of the 8 kids in my family live on the east coast (4 of us in Virginia), so we all rented a beach house down in the Outer Banks for a week. There were 9 adults and 9 kids, including a one month old baby. It was fun to see part of my family and just have a week to relax. Until the last year or so, we've never had many girls in my family. Now that there are a bunch of baby girls, my Mom made them all matching dresses and we took some pictures. Here are a few:
The day after I got back from the beach, one of my good friends from BYU came to visit me for the weekend. He's in Connecticut for the summer, so he took the bus down and we spent most of the weekend just catching up and having fun. It was also my brother's birthday that weekend, so I had to make him a cake! I think I'm going to have to try that recipe again.... Mmmmm, it was good!
Ryan and me by the Washington Monument. Sometimes I do love being in DC... :)
This past weekend was awesome! Thursday night a few friends and I went to the midnight showing of Batman. I still think I liked the second one best, but this one was super good! I LOVED the ending. On Friday a bunch of friends and I went to upstate New York to go see the Hill Cumorah Pageant. I haven't seen it in over 10 years, and that was probably the most recent out of anyone in the group. Some had never seen it. It was a super fun weekend. We split into 2 different groups. One went to Niagra Falls and the other went to Hershey. We ended up being in 2 minivans and just drove around everywhere in them. It was great and SUCH a fun weekend! I'm kinda tired now, but it was so worth it. :)
The biggest adventure of the month is yet to come though!!! This next Saturday I am leaving for.... wait for it... BELIZE! If you don't know where that is (I didn't until a friend went there 2 years ago), it is in the Caribbean just south of Mexico and east of Guatemala. It has the second best Scuba diving in the WORLD (too bad I don't have my scuba license...) But the snorkeling should be fantastic! I'll let you know ALL about it when I get back.
Sounds like a fun July, right??? :)
