Thursday, March 20, 2008

Freak Out

I am in London ready to go to Salzburg for the Sound of Music Pilgrimage! I am so freaking excited because is finally here, when I suddenly start to have a panic attack. OMG! I have forgotten my passport! What am I supposed to do. It is a 4 hour train ride back to Saltburn and I will miss the plane if I do that. OH crap. I am so screwed. I can no longer go on the trip. Besides my passport, I have forgotten Kristin's different plugs and the vouchers for the Sound of Music Tour. Basically I am a failure for this trip. CRAP!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Magsam Family Camping Trip

I am at the annual Magsam Family Camping Trip. This is the first time that I have gone in four years and I am so excited to be there. I see some of my family and they are so excited that I am there. My aunt Joy, gives me a huge hug and tells me how great it is that I am here. I am filled up with joy and am so grateful to have a wonderful family.

We are camping at a place where there is a huge long sandy beach. I step up on this hill that looks over the beach and see my family by our old little fishing boat. I ask if I can take it out for a spin by myself. My mom is a little hesitant, but decides it will be ok.

I start driving the boat through the shallow waters near the beach. There are tons of people and I am constantly dodging them. Good thing that my boat driving skills are top notch. At one point, I stop and the boat swings around completely to avoid a little kid swimming.
My parents join me in the boat, and we take a little trip over to a nearby cove.

In that cove, there is this strange family that is dresses very conservatively and they all look alike. Their clothes are the same color and they are all very hairy (including the women). It seems to me that they are Mormon or Polygamists. They are by the lake fully dresses and showing no skin. Here I am in my revealing swimsuit. My parents jump out and I start dancing around and singing suggestive/crazy songs.
Then the boat starts to fill up with water. I jump out and my mom decides that she is going to jump into the boat from the shore. It is way too far away and I know that she is going to miss it, but I decide to just watch her. She starts counting and then jumps. Missing the boat by feet she splashes into the water. I laugh and jolt back to waking life.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Lost

I am in a twisted version of Lost. There are four of us together and we are going to recreate the conditions of the crash in order to disorient some of the other passengers. We set up all this gear to create a hurricane out side. We use these bright electric yellow pumps and with thirty seconds run into a room that is my old youth room at Bethlehem Lutheran church and use a different pump to put anti-hurricane agents into the room to keep us safe. The winds start to churn and scream as we run into this little room. With only seconds left we use the pump and save ourselves.

The winds rage outside and through the windows we watch the destruction unfold. Being in this room is quite unnerving because it seems that we should be getting destroyed like everything else. I don't trust our new technology and just want the storm to be over.

The storm is finally done and we head outside to see the nose of the plane shrewed across the lawn. Our plan has unfolded perfectly and now we can continue on our journey.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Long Black Hair

I am talking to Vanessa about my experience this year in England. We stand there she is working on my hair. We begin to talk about my roommate and I start telling her about my old roommate Kelli. Then somehow I jump into talking about my friend Sangya. As we chat I realize that I have Sangya's hair. It is the same color and length. It is hers! Vanessa uses masking tape to hold my hair back out of my face as we chat. WEIRD!