ok so i've been in the direct sun for the past two days here on project. on Monday we (meaning half the staff team and the senior high students) went to a ranch in Estes Park and i wore a tank top and only put sunscreen on my face....bad idea. yeah i was a little pink from that excursion. but hey i had a lot of fun. i met seven girls on my bus that i co-captained...(if that is a word) with Joel. that was fun. our bus was only half full so it was a nice group just to joke around with and bond together. aw! hahaha. then we got to the ranch and i pretty much hung out with lots of different groups. i played a couple rounds of Nerts with some. cheered on a volleyball game with others. and sadly my team lost but they did try....out of three games they one once. oh well. ;) then we had lunch and that was exciting. this ranch place had this wolf looking dog just wandering around...it was a bit discomforting. i mean the thing was really nice and stuff but it is sorta strange to see students sitting on the ground with this wolf staring at their food as they eat it. i dunno it sort freaked me out. but anyways...i also got to go to downtown Estes with a group of guys and Janell--a girl on the project. they all wanted to go to DQ so we invaded the little ice cream store and hung out in the air-con for awhile. then we found this stream-lake thing that formed from mountain snow run off....it was freezing. but i love it! on the way back to the ranch we stopped in this glass-blowing store. we were fortunate enough to watch this guy make an ornament and a bowl. liquid glass is soooo fascinating!! it looks and acts just like thick syrup or caramel. so we got a little souvenier from the guy (free i might add!!). it was awesome.

yesterday we (meaning all of us jr. and sr. high) went to Water World. which for all you Orlando people is a tamed down version of Wet n Wild. sometimes i realize how spoiled we are to live in a city that has like every amusement park created. it was an ok park. the worst part i think about it was the fact that they i guess don't understand the concept of having the floaty things brought up to the ride on a pulley system. we had to carry all the tubes to the tops of these hills to be able to go down the ride. it was a little ridiculous. i know some of you are thinking "wow she's lazy." but ok if you think....at Wet n Wild the only tubes you carry with you are either two seater or one seater ones....now this place you were carrying the four seater huge round ones....yeah. exactly pretty akward if you ask me. ;) but i still had fun anyway! i have definitely decided that i LOVE water parks. they are my favorite!! well the best story ever happened yesterday. two of my friends on the project Mike and Kevin were on a two-seater innertube and going down a ride that is just a twisted closed off tube...sorta like the Black Hole at Wet n Wild except not dark. well they were going down and the tube flipped over. kevin couldn't hang on and just kept going down the ride. mike got back on the tube and kept going. well at the end kevin pops out and the life guard asks him where his tube is. just as he is telling the guy he has no idea...mike on the tube rushes down and runs him over! hahahahaha. it was the funniest thing i have ever heard! who in the world gets run over my an innertube?? come on! hahahaha. we definately had muchos of laughter over that story. i wasn't even there to witness it...if i had been i probably would have died from laughing! i still laugh now thinking about it! anyways...my friends want me to go now. so i'll write more later about the trip! not that any of my friends really keep up with reading this thing. oh well! ;) j/k