99 Red Balloons...

 First off, that facebook thing didn't work as well as I'd hoped. I'll keep trying.

Secondly, the Taylor Lautner thing was actually kinda a hit. Instead of signing my name on the picture, I signed it "Taylor Launter," so now the joke is that Taylor Lautner's actually a student at High Sierra. And my art prof wasn't mad at all--he, and the other students here, was actually quite impressed with it (!). Now I have a request to do a "self-portrait" of Miley Cyrus lol.

My attempt at Taylor Lautner

I mean...I didn't draw this, Taylor Lautner did.

Disclaimer: I am not obsessed with Taylor Lautner. Puh-leeese. I just thought it would be funny to draw his picture. Okay, now that that's been said...

So I hung it with all the others

Ta-da!

 On a completely new note, today I decided I wanted to bike to the nearest town, Oakhurst, which is eleven miles from camp. I convinced Bo to go with me, poor guy, and off we went, little expecting the challenge that lay before us.

I am from flatlands. Bo is from Texas, which is the epitome of flatlands. Here it is mountainous. I never realized before, but the entire drive to Oakhurst is uphill, then downhill, then uphill, then downhill for like five miles straight. Seriously, we FLEW to Oakhurst. I think at one point we must have been going at least 25 mph without pedaling. It took us a little over an hour to bike (or should I say, coast) to Oakhurst. Going back? That was ridiculous. It took us two hours and was so hard. Like, so hard lol. When we came back and told people at camp that we had biked to Oakhurst--and back--their jaws dropped. Altogether, it was a nice 22-mile bike ride, but I am personally a fan of biking on flatland.

When we were in Oakhurst, though, Bo and I stopped to grab lunch at Jamba Juice--it was the first time for both of us! I like how Jamba Juice has healthy options. Of course, instead of choosing something healthy I had to get something off the "secret menu" and got some chocolate-peanut butter-banana smoothie thing that reminded me of one of my mom's "healthy" carob banana smoothies, but it actually tasted pretty good. (love you, mom =) )

My first-ever Jamba Juice Experience!

While Bo and I were eating, we saw all these red balloons released in the distance begin floating towards the sky--it was so cool! It was like something you'd see in a movie. I tried to capture the moment, but the picture really doesn't do it justice.

"99 red balloons floating in the summer sky..""

Finally, tonight after dinner we had crazy hat bingo. To participate, you needed to wear a crazy hat. I wore a crazy hat (a crown I made myself), but I did not win a prize =(. It was really fun, though, because the two number callers, Katie and Ben the RD and Assistant RD talked with southern drawls and we had fun events interspersed between rounds of bingo, like finger jousting, push-up contests, hat judging, and lip syncing =)

 

Some Crazy hats!

Tomorrow we have church in Oakhurst. I think I'm going to bike there....

and get a car ride back, lol.