the ink is gone.
the last few days have been great. the weather is practically perfect (about 70 and sunny with high clouds). the company has been great, and the activities have been tops.
on thursday shannon and emily arrived from arizona (and illinois) at my house for a weekend of fun in the sun.
their first evening here was the most laid back portion of the whole trip. we hung out around my house and then went down to the beach for emily's first night time beach trip.
friday was a really great time. we drove up to santa barbara, had lunch with my grandma and aunt, then took in some of the sights. i showed them a little around state street where shannon got some fun kitchen stuff and i got a fantastic bowl. then we drove up to the mission where the remnants of the i madonnari (chalk drawing) festival were still visible. we also walked in the rose garden and took picture of beautiful flowers. next was sterns wharf (the s.b. pier) where we walked around, took more pictuers, and saw a sea lion in the water near the end. later that evening we went to my friend nat's house for her, what did she call it?, affirmation of baptism. (she wanted to be baptised again, but the presbyterian church only does a single baptism so they reorganized it a bit and it was still amazing.) after which we hung around and ended up playing wii.
saturday was crazy and loads of fun. we hit my favorite coffee shop (simones) and i drove them around ventura a little more before we got ready and went to chapman university in orange, ca and saw jars of clay at the lifewater conference. it was so much fun! i do have two amusing and "it would" stories. the first is when, on the way down stuck in traffic, i decide that emily's purse needs to be cleaned out, it had a ton of old junk in it. so as i'm working my way through all of it i decide to compile the two addresses she had onto one piece of paper. i pick up one of her pens and i open it and try to write when i realize that it has exploded all over my hands. i'm pretty sure that the ink is gone now, but i totally had it all over my hands for the last few days. i kind of felt like i'd been dyeing clothes and stained my hands. the second story from the night has to do with the contact in my left eye. we're about half way through the amazing show that jars of clay was putting on and my eye starts to feel like it has something in it. i rub it, and rub it, and keep rubbing it. finally it slips out of place and i can't feel it and can't get it back into place but i know it hasn't come out. so i go down to the bathroom to look for it and i can't find it. as i'm trying to get it out i rub and open my eye and half of it falls out. yes HALF of it. the other half is still somewhere in my eye and won't come out. so i head back up to the concert, only having half clear vision, and proceed to watch the remainder of the set that way. it ended up being somewhat cool because everyone was half blurry and as dan (the lead singer) stood on stage talking to all of us he looked really cool that way. it was like someone had taken a picture of him, then dragged his body a foot to the right making the edges of his body on the right looking blurily stretched. i can't describe it better than that written, but it was awesome. what was also fun was driving back because i pulled out my other contact and threw it away and rode home all blurry eyed. it was also fun when we drove by disneyland and got to watch the nightly fireworks from the 5 freeway.
sunday was a fun day too. we went to church, which was good, and then grabbed sarah (saving her from the 6th grade parents lunch with her family) and headed for lunch and the beach. we got urban cafe and drove to the harbor where we ate in the bed of my truck before going and sitting on the beach, and walking down to the water where we got our legs (and pants) wet. then we headed back home and shannon and emily left to go back to arizona where they would (are actually) hanging out with shannon's family before emily takes off for home in illinois.
all in all the three of us had a wonderful time, and it was so much fun for me to have friends here that had fun just hanging out and loving it.
see what happens when i don't blog often enough? a super long blog. i hope you made it through to the end.
- corrie
on thursday shannon and emily arrived from arizona (and illinois) at my house for a weekend of fun in the sun.
their first evening here was the most laid back portion of the whole trip. we hung out around my house and then went down to the beach for emily's first night time beach trip.
friday was a really great time. we drove up to santa barbara, had lunch with my grandma and aunt, then took in some of the sights. i showed them a little around state street where shannon got some fun kitchen stuff and i got a fantastic bowl. then we drove up to the mission where the remnants of the i madonnari (chalk drawing) festival were still visible. we also walked in the rose garden and took picture of beautiful flowers. next was sterns wharf (the s.b. pier) where we walked around, took more pictuers, and saw a sea lion in the water near the end. later that evening we went to my friend nat's house for her, what did she call it?, affirmation of baptism. (she wanted to be baptised again, but the presbyterian church only does a single baptism so they reorganized it a bit and it was still amazing.) after which we hung around and ended up playing wii.
saturday was crazy and loads of fun. we hit my favorite coffee shop (simones) and i drove them around ventura a little more before we got ready and went to chapman university in orange, ca and saw jars of clay at the lifewater conference. it was so much fun! i do have two amusing and "it would" stories. the first is when, on the way down stuck in traffic, i decide that emily's purse needs to be cleaned out, it had a ton of old junk in it. so as i'm working my way through all of it i decide to compile the two addresses she had onto one piece of paper. i pick up one of her pens and i open it and try to write when i realize that it has exploded all over my hands. i'm pretty sure that the ink is gone now, but i totally had it all over my hands for the last few days. i kind of felt like i'd been dyeing clothes and stained my hands. the second story from the night has to do with the contact in my left eye. we're about half way through the amazing show that jars of clay was putting on and my eye starts to feel like it has something in it. i rub it, and rub it, and keep rubbing it. finally it slips out of place and i can't feel it and can't get it back into place but i know it hasn't come out. so i go down to the bathroom to look for it and i can't find it. as i'm trying to get it out i rub and open my eye and half of it falls out. yes HALF of it. the other half is still somewhere in my eye and won't come out. so i head back up to the concert, only having half clear vision, and proceed to watch the remainder of the set that way. it ended up being somewhat cool because everyone was half blurry and as dan (the lead singer) stood on stage talking to all of us he looked really cool that way. it was like someone had taken a picture of him, then dragged his body a foot to the right making the edges of his body on the right looking blurily stretched. i can't describe it better than that written, but it was awesome. what was also fun was driving back because i pulled out my other contact and threw it away and rode home all blurry eyed. it was also fun when we drove by disneyland and got to watch the nightly fireworks from the 5 freeway.
sunday was a fun day too. we went to church, which was good, and then grabbed sarah (saving her from the 6th grade parents lunch with her family) and headed for lunch and the beach. we got urban cafe and drove to the harbor where we ate in the bed of my truck before going and sitting on the beach, and walking down to the water where we got our legs (and pants) wet. then we headed back home and shannon and emily left to go back to arizona where they would (are actually) hanging out with shannon's family before emily takes off for home in illinois.
all in all the three of us had a wonderful time, and it was so much fun for me to have friends here that had fun just hanging out and loving it.
see what happens when i don't blog often enough? a super long blog. i hope you made it through to the end.
- corrie
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