Monday, July 28, 2008

The Watersdown Mansion Murder Mystery Affair

I don't even know where to begin!! Emily and I had our second Murder Mystery Dinner, and I think it was an even bigger hit then the last! As you can see from the pictures, we always go all out. I would try to explain everything but it would be so long and difficult. Basically it was set in 1936, Yorkshire, England in a Mansion. The owner was found murdered and we, the guests, have to figure out which one of us did it. It only took 8 hours to get it all ready, crazy, I know, but worth it. Everyone had the best of time!!!! I can't wait to do the next one, although I know I need a break first.
Our Entry to Watersdown Mansion

The Cloak Room
The Library
The Dining Room
The Lounge
The Ladies: Randy (Me), Flo (Kelsy), Ali (Emily) and E (Kayleen)
The Gentlemen: Mal (Adam), Donny (Ben), Rog (Jordan) and Pro (Colin)
All of us together. We look great, don't we?Emily and me with our fake cigarettes.
Don't I look amazing?!?! I was an American Actress.
Jordan, thinking he's cool, as always. He was an architect and mountain climbing.
Consequently the killer too. Mother, what kind of family are you raising? Two Murderers, what are the chances?


Other then all of this for Pioneer Day we went tubing down the Provo River! It was so much fun!!

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Rexburg???

This last weekend, I went up to see Emily in her hometown of Rexburg. I thought that I might as well, seems I have never seen it, and since she is the only roommate that I actually do anything with. I left on Wednesday after work on the Salt Lake Shuttle and let me tell you, I slept almost the entire way! Good thing, because college=no sleep. Emily picked me up around 11 that night and immediately we hit the town. (By that I mean Broulim's, which is like the only grocery store.) That night we only got some dinner and luckily went to bed at 1:30, early compared to the other ones. The next day, Emily's older brother can into town, so we spent the day with her family. They have the cutest kids, two little boys! (Although nothing compared to MY nephews and nieces!) Since her brother's family was there we got to rent a motel room seems their house isn't big enough for that many people-think small farm. That was cool so that we could do WHATEVER we wanted!!! We rented some movies at CleanFlicks, so we could watch all those rated 'R' movies that we always wanted to see, but without all the junk in them, but we did not watch them. It was thursday night, and that meant......Batman!!! Oh yes, we already had tickets to the 12 0'clock showing of "The Dark Knight." Of course we had to go sit in line early, and the seats weren't too bad. Three hours later, I was in a trance. It was one of the most amazing movies ever. Props to Heath Ledger for being so completely crazy, I can understand why they say it was possible that he couldn't sleep and accidentally overdosed on sleeping pills now. But the point is, it was spectacular!!! So now, at 4 in the morning we go to bed, only to get up at 8 to say bye to her brother. Once again, sleep deprived, we spent the day getting stuff for our upcoming Murder Mystery Dinner and Craigo's-the best pizza joint in Idaho. Also we watched the 6 movies we rented, each were amazing, although a little choppy sometimes, but what can you expect? On Saturday we went to the Musuem of Idaho which was doing a sequence on the Pharoah's of Egypt and then the zoo they have in Idaho Falls. I found out that the wing span of an eagle is taller then me...talk about depressing! But we also did some shopping and ended up staying up until 5 the next morning working on Emily's dress for said dinner. That Sunday we woke up early to get onto the Shuttle back to Provo at 9. I would like to say that I slept all the way back, but with the Shuttle filled to capacity, there was no lying down. And basically I haven't been able to have a good night's rest yet. You know how it is, you are in college with really amazing friends, and no matter how tired you are, you can't go to bed and miss out on the fun. Well, that is me in a nutshell!! Still, that was my little adventure to Rexburg. It was so much fun and they have beautiful weather right now!! I have come to the conclusion that I would like Idaho in the summer, but I would rather die then spend a winter there. Overall, it was amazing!! I would put up pictures, but we took all of them with Emily's parent's camera and then when we wanted them we couldn't find the cable and so for right now, they are up in Idaho still. Still, onto the next adventure I say!!!!

Saturday, July 5, 2008

4th of July!! Well, I must admit that Emily and I know how to celebrate!! We woke up in the morning and made some red, white and blue french toast to start the day's festivities. But don't think that's all, we had the whole works, the sausage, bacon, eggs and orange juice. Yummm... We did invite Jordan to come along with us because, come on, it is a celebration that should be shared with family and friends. Well, we then decided to head down to Center Street where the Freedom Days Festival is for 3 days. I love being around all the bustling people who are enjoying the holiday just like us. We got ourselves some Texas Twister lemonade drinks, and boy was it good! Jordan decided that he had to get a sword, of course, and Emily wanted a Henna tattoo. We had some Italian Ice as well and just had a blast looking at everything. Oh, and Emily got an Native American Pipe Flute CD. I love it!! Especially since it has The Last of the Mohicans theme song on it. One of my favorites!! But with everyone getting something, I decided (and they both agreed) that I should get something as well. And so I was looking around and I saw this rock necklace. I was like, oh my goodness, I love this, and it is my color!! So, I bought it. Enough said. Well, we can home and got to working on our Independence dinner. We had ribs, corn on the cob, baked beans, deviled eggs, chips and queso, and cookies. We are going to continue that today with some potato salad and Rocky Road brownies....my mouth is already watering. We then plopped ourselves down to watch Independence Day, the movie, I mean, come on, how could we not? And right at the end the fireworks started shooting off. It is pretty cool because from our apartment you can see the Provo City ones, and Stadium of Fire, so two fireworks shows for free. Got to love it. So yes, that was my 4th of July. I enjoyed it immensely!!! I hope that everyone else's went as well. I must admit, I am happy to live in America with all of our freedoms. Thank you to all the men who fought for it, and those who fight now. God Bless America!!!