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Hey everybody!! sorry i haven't been on in forever O.O;; just thought you guys might want to know what ive been doing so i dont have to explain it all when I get back XD

Thursday: flew into minnesota that night. a 3 hour flight. not fun. ended up experience jet lag for the next three days, but me and my sister got arby's when we landed. Dadwin as lauren would say XP due to the jet lag we stayed up all night playing pinball and driving games. since the cost of living is low my lawyer brothers have great (and lots of) stuff XP

Friday: we went shopping for a bunch of food -w- got sunnyD and pizza rolls XD ate brunch at D. Micheal B.'s. We drove up to the missipi river where we took an extremely short hike and i took a big rock from river. My dad has to ship the rock out to me.......i didnt think it would fit in my suitcase......then we went back to play some more games. just couldn't get enough of the never ending pinball XD

Saturday: Watched my dad play three softball games with his church team. everyone was saying it was hot but i was just fine because it was normal california weather. I met my niece beatrice. Shes a ball of craziness. shes adopted along with her baby sister joyce, but she wants to spend all her time with my sister and I. she makes us so happy T^T afterwards we went to CeCe's pizza buffet where i ended up not eating pizza XD that night i got scared O.O A TORNADO WARNING!!! i prefer earthquakes to the sound of thunder, flashes of lightening keeping you from falling asleep, and hearing that siren sure dont help a bit we never lost power and that was a good sign but we still stayed up and played 2 games of yahtzee free for all. I won both games XD GO YAHTZEE!!

Sunday: started out by going to church (i had planned for this and was all dressed up in my best XP) then played 4 games off bowling. 2 with bumpers 2 without. I can play without bumpers but i do better with them XP honestly who doesn't?? we had wanted to go to the movies but we wouldn't make it in time so we packed up and headed to the lake house with beatrice, joyce, and their mother. We got there and went for a walk around the area. Beatrice told us about a story her and her dad started about the nerby woods. Inside is nice trolls and monsters but theres a bad witch thats growing bad corn to make everybody sick. I thought it was cute and often had to remind her of little details in her story XD she said the bad witch wasn't there because she doesnt like california girls O.O we walked back and had root beer floats while playing yahtzee with beatrice but that was the only night she was able to stay up late XP sorry beatrice

Monday: woke up and showed beatrice how to make my crosses. people i know in real life you know what im talking about XD then we went downstairs and i caught some fish!! I lost one big bass though T^T but i have an eyewitness so dont tell me im lying!!! XD dad cleaned up the fish and we ate them with 3 different sauses, ketchup mustard and barbecue sauce. beatrice left to the neighbors house to make chocolate cupcakes and when she came back we drove out to town. We were in Cumberland Wisconsin. We went to the #1 meat place in the world (or so my sister says) we bought some cheese curds (which i didnt like), some sort of summer meat snacks, beef jerky, and huge cookies O.O. My sister bought some post cards (she's going to start collecting them now), Beatrice showed us the vibrating chair O.O, and we visted the library where joyce made a new friend named Daughtry and we got the movie attonement which we watched after eating cumpcakes with ice cream and puting beatrice to bed. It was a sad movie T^T though i didnt actually cry.

Tuesday: woke up late and packed up myself before going down to the dock to watch every one but my dad and I swim in the lake. I didnt want to get in because the water was so dirty, there was fish in there, and i didnt want to wear my sandles in. I ended up not eating lunch that day, not to sure why but i kept listening to the same song over and over as we were leaving and it darkened my mood. Beatrice took mine and sue--chans picture in almost the same exact spot we took a picture in 3 years ago. On the way back we pulled over to investigate a sculpture park razz we walked around there for 2 hours taking a bunch of pictures and even playing a game it was so much fun and so awesome

Wednesday: We went to a twins game with beatrice. I got dressed up in red and black with a baseball hat. Apparently i look good in baseball hats o.o we had cracker jaks, cotten candy, hot dogs, and bubble gum. The twins won the game!! Their third game (my lucky number). We went bought my mom a shot glass then took pictures on the 'golden glove" <insert chorus of angels here> yes kona im stealling your thing!! > biggrin we ate dinner at beatrice's house which is where i first came online biggrin . We watched her play soccer where they didnt keep score and played on 2 different fields O.O weird it was a sad goodbye T^T hopefully we can go back in the winter to visit and i can see real snow >w<

Thursday: this was our lazy day XD we'd been doing so much stuff so we just stayed in our pajamas and sat around. I worked on videos before going up to eat and watch burn notive, royale pain, and NCIS with my dad. we finally gave up on being lazy and went out to see despicable me in 3D it was so cute and FLUFFY!! XD

Friday: we only had one thing planed for that day. Go to the mall of America. We spent 6 hours walking around. We started out getting lost between the 2 and 1st floor then went to go check out the rides. In the 3 years we weren't there Nickelodeon completely took over the rides. The rides were either to small or to big (i dont really like roller coasters in the first place), but we did fins one thing around there and that was the butterfly bay biggrin . It was so beautiful in there with hundreds of butterflies just flying around one even landed on my sister's leg it was funny XP We even played around the arcade a bit and i got a ceramic howling wolf that looks like wood ^.^ we got some more post cards, 4 more shot glasses, magnets, i got some epic gloves and hair clips, key chains, fun dip, lunch at panda exspress, and build a bears biggrin my sister got a wolf that she named sam from the shiver book whoes wearing a mall of america shirt and a guitar ^.^ I got a bear that i dressed up in an Army outfit for me going into J.R.O.T.C. next year and named her T.C. after the twin's mascot we went home and started packing stuff clothes in the magical box and shot glass in between my clothes there was only a couple things we couldn't fit and those will be shipped to me along with clay, and my rock biggrin

Saturday: we sat in the car for 4 hours because my brother gave us bad directions -.- but when we finally made it we met my brother micheal and his 3 kids jasmine, anthony, and alexandria. We drove to a man made lake and ran right in for a swim. I didn't swim for very long because i wanted to go to the shore and take care of the baby alexandria. She started piling mud on my legs and throughing rocks around when i found them for her. Then another little girl came up named mia who started putting mud on me too XD i took the baby over to the play ground before leaving to go get pizza and watch fred clause back at micheals house. We said our good byes and headed for the airport. It didn't take as long as we though it would to get there so we were there early. Which means we had to wait longer DX we ended up having to change gates at the last second which means we lost our front row seats -.- I had to sit next to a guy in baggy pants and baggy shirt which means i had little to no space. My sister and I shared a sprite on the plane with pringles, a sudoko puzzle book, and the book of awesome. yes you read correctly, i had bought a book called the book of awesome XD there was a bit of terbulance and i still had problems popping my ears but we landed safely and went to eat dennys at midnight XD
I had a lot of fun ^.^ I really love how beautiful every thing is out there all the nature and houses. It's not really that different theres all the same stores (other than Starbucks) and all the same types of people. If I didn't have people i love and care about to come back to, I could have stayed there forever............guess.....im glad to be back.....