I Learn to Water Ski...Summer Installment #2

Okay so the weekend after Memorial Day was a blast too!! We went to Kristie's dad's lake house at Lake St. Louis. There really isn't much to tell about this weekend really since it only consisted of one day. So yeah. The water skiing was lots of fun and way harder than it looks. Not a piece of cake by any stretch of the word. After everyone went water skiing, it was time for tubing! That was a great time! Very, very intense. Kristie's dad loves to knock people off of the rafts, so you really have to hold on for dear life. I had some pretty sweet strawberries on my elbows by the end of the tubing session. You know how they say "It isn't over until the fat lady sings?" Well in this case, it wasn't over until someone bleeds. We have a nice bleeder on Kristie's head and therefore it was time to stop tubing. Basically what happened was Ashley's chin went crash into Kristie's head and she had a nice bloody mess. Kristie has very light blonde hair but after that happened, she was more of a strawberry blonde. The day ended with some delicious dinner, that I actually can't remember now, but it was good. (I think it was bbq of some kind) Then we all went home. Like I said, there really isn't much to tell here as it was only a day, but it was in fact a very fun day! One that I would love to repeat again next summer!!!

Here are some pictures of the lovely day!!! Enjoy!!

Sorry that its so short, but it was sweet! Lol!! Tune in next time to hear about Mizzou Reunion 2010...Amanda, Anna, and Claire take on CoMo yet again!!!

Until next time!! Lots of Love!

~Anna

It's Been Forever...Summer Installment #1

Okay. I know it has been a long time since I've posted, but there are a few things that you have to understand. 1. My best bud in the whole world had an epic fail this summer. That's right. My computer that I got before I left for Mizzou five years ago, died. It was a very sad summer! It wasn't until the end of July when I got a new one. Then the first couple days (or rather week and a half) were so unbelieveably busy that I have literally not had a chance until now to make a lovely post. (I'll tell you all about the crazy busy in an upcoming post!) So first, let me take you back to May.

Garrett left for Commissioned Officer training May 24th. I was not a happy camper, even though I knew that I had many fun things to occupy my mind until he got back. Needless to say, I was a bit teary. I dropped him off at the airport and then I had to go to work and that was the biggest bummer of all. I really would have preferred to go home and crawl into bed and just lay there, but I did not. The following weekend was Memorial Day weekend and that's where all my fun began.

Amanda, Kristie and I had decided to take a weekend trip down to Johnson's Shut-Ins, which have been closed since December 4th, 2005. For those of you who don't know what happened, here's a little slice that I found on Wikipedia about it. "The plant was out of operation after the upper reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure on December 14, 2005, until the rebuilt and recertified structure started producing power again on April 21, 2010." So basically, we decided to go on their first major holiday weekend since 2005. Talk about crowded. Don't get my wrong we had a fabulous time! Friday night we camped and Saturday we went through the Shut-Ins and camped again that night. Here's a little slice of the weekend shenanigans.

There was lovely flat Jenna, which Amanda came up with and now I really don't remember the flat Jenna story...but it was so that she wouldn't feel left out because she couldn't come!!

Then there was dancing to "Single Ladies" with flat Jenna! (I think we might have listened to that song about 50 times throughout the course of the weekend)

Going through the Shut-Ins. Let me tell you, this place was soooo sooo much fun! I would absolutely love to go again sometime in the very near future!

Saturday night there was dancing on the picnic tables to this and that and then getting screamed at by a cranky woman who said we were being way too loud after quiet hours. (Quiet hours started at 10, and it was 10:15) Let me tell you, that woman got on her menstrual cycle and ran our butts over. Talk about a total buzz kill. The evening short of ended abruptly after that. Evil woman! Ruining Saturday night of MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!! Geez. Its camping and its a holiday weekend. Chill woman! See! Even two months later that is still annoying me!

All in all, the weekend was fabulous! We had an excellent time and Amanda and I needed the rest of Sunday and a good portion of Monday to recover from our escapades.

Tune in later to hear about party at Lake St. Louis and Anna learns to water ski. Quite an adventure that one was!

Until next time!

Lots of Love!

~A