Saturday, July 19, 2008
Summer Nights
It is now July 19th and normally the first 18 years of my life at this time I would be in Lake of the Ozarks otherwise known as Osage Beach, Missouri. The last few years however we have not gone there, you have to understand we went to the same place and it became like our second home, and now I miss it. The place we used to go to no longer exists. To clue you all in this was not just the family, it was the extended family, and it was a fun time with lots of memories. As I entered my house tonight it all came flooding back into my mind, and I just wanted to be in that familiar place. Plus tonight feels like one of those Ozark nights and it makes me want to hop on the boat and go cruising along, with the moonlight glistens on the water. I think another reason as to why I want to go there right now is just for the fact that it is summer and I have not even been on our boat once yet. I truly do not feel like this is summer, yet it is and it is almost gone. Also, right now it feels like one of those nights where I could just sit outside of our room or on the boat dock, and it is calm, the commotion of the day is no longer and all you hear are the crickets and the slight waves of the water. It is so peaceful!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
My Family Trip to West Virginia
so I have not written in a while...I have been crazy busy or just wiped out at the end of the day. Finally I am going to talk about my trip to West Virginia only because I also got my pictures up on my facebook.
The first day we were there it was Fathers Day and it was gorgeous day. We decided to go down to this lodge that you can only get to by a gondola now let me tell you if you need/want to go somewhere where there are no distractions this is the place. It was set in a valley and it was only the lodge down there. Later that day we decided to go see these waterfalls, but first you have to take this road and along this road you could tell you were in hillbilly country. That was a trip in itself.
The whole rest of the trip there was barely any people around and the roads were very curvy and the speed limit on some of them were 55 mph which would be insane and if people did go that speed on them they would be dead. Throughout the trip we got to see a lot of amazing waterfalls and mountain/stream landscapes. We did end up seeing a bear and its three cubs which was amazing. A couple of really sweet places we went to included: an old coal town called Bramwell, an old mill, an old train town called Thurmond, the place where they filmed Dirty Dancing and in the mean time they were filming I guess the equivalent of our American Idol but a dancing show for Europe, and trenches from the Civil War. So all in all that was the trip in a nutshell...I definitely could have added more if I had done this sooner...but I had a good time. Also, it was weird because i was reading this book called Crow Lake at the time and I felt like it corresponded with West Virginia so well with the small town life.
Oh and one day when we were by this huge bridge which is taller than two statue of liberties and the Washington monument put together ...we were on this littler bridge and these guys had this rope tied to it and were jumping into the water and at first I thought they were bungee jumping and thats when I discovered I really want to do bungee jumping I do not know why I just had this urge to do that. There are some crazy things I want to do but just have not yet but I hope some day I will be able to. And did I mentions these guys were Navy boys and ooo were they cute. :) haha
Another thing I learned on this trip was that after a while being so closely confined with people someone is bound to burst sooner or later. Yet, God gave me the patience to deal with them and I guess was testing me for my dorm life soon to come.
Well I think I am off, yet feel like there is so much more to tell.
God Bless :D
The first day we were there it was Fathers Day and it was gorgeous day. We decided to go down to this lodge that you can only get to by a gondola now let me tell you if you need/want to go somewhere where there are no distractions this is the place. It was set in a valley and it was only the lodge down there. Later that day we decided to go see these waterfalls, but first you have to take this road and along this road you could tell you were in hillbilly country. That was a trip in itself.
The whole rest of the trip there was barely any people around and the roads were very curvy and the speed limit on some of them were 55 mph which would be insane and if people did go that speed on them they would be dead. Throughout the trip we got to see a lot of amazing waterfalls and mountain/stream landscapes. We did end up seeing a bear and its three cubs which was amazing. A couple of really sweet places we went to included: an old coal town called Bramwell, an old mill, an old train town called Thurmond, the place where they filmed Dirty Dancing and in the mean time they were filming I guess the equivalent of our American Idol but a dancing show for Europe, and trenches from the Civil War. So all in all that was the trip in a nutshell...I definitely could have added more if I had done this sooner...but I had a good time. Also, it was weird because i was reading this book called Crow Lake at the time and I felt like it corresponded with West Virginia so well with the small town life.
Oh and one day when we were by this huge bridge which is taller than two statue of liberties and the Washington monument put together ...we were on this littler bridge and these guys had this rope tied to it and were jumping into the water and at first I thought they were bungee jumping and thats when I discovered I really want to do bungee jumping I do not know why I just had this urge to do that. There are some crazy things I want to do but just have not yet but I hope some day I will be able to. And did I mentions these guys were Navy boys and ooo were they cute. :) haha
Another thing I learned on this trip was that after a while being so closely confined with people someone is bound to burst sooner or later. Yet, God gave me the patience to deal with them and I guess was testing me for my dorm life soon to come.
Well I think I am off, yet feel like there is so much more to tell.
God Bless :D
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