Rexburg

Discovered a mountain of meat, acted spontaneous, faced my allergies, glimpsed another mind, raced a horse named Kezo, became Tarzan, visited the Orient, made a baby burrito, got sat on and kicked in the face.

I recently read a bunch of J Washburn's essays.  I really enjoy his writing.  In My Washington DC Adventure, he tells a week long story by starting with a blurb he posted, that tells the story of his day, but pretty vaguely.  For example, day 6 he said "Read the Bill of Rights penned by Madison, landed virtually on the red planet, saw in infrared, contemplated Charlie Darwin, avoided prehistoric monsters, touched the moon."  He then talked about that day.  Not really mentioning specifically what it was from each of those that went where, but you could kinda figure it out.  I liked that.  I think I'm going to try and do that for my blog.  Give me focus.

This weekend started early.  I went to dinner Thursday with a bunch of my friends to celebrate my roommate Travis's birthday.  Station 22 Cafe.  I had an amazing burger called the Chubby Checker.  (I think).  If any food was worthy of a picture, it was this burger.  Burger, pulled pork, bacon, onion ring, BBQ sauce, lettuce, the perfect amount of onion.  It was awesome.  I will go back and get it again I'm sure.

Friday, I left midday to go to visit my sister and her family in Rexburg.  It was kinda a last minute thing.  But I had a lot of fun.  I drove there and ended up showing up just in time for dinner.  The next day, Taylor went to a Bridal shower, so Dillon and I took care of the kids.  We took them to see the cats and dogs that were available for adoption, to McDonald's (Dad and Uncle are fun), and to the Carousel in the park.  Adi had a name for every horse, just off the top of her head.  And not even names she had heard before.  Her horse was named Kezo.  After the park, we went home for nap-time.  First for the kids, then for Dad and Uncle.  I introduced Dillon to Modern Family while the kids slept.  He tried to convince me he wasn't sure about it, but during kid sleeping time the rest of the weekend, that's what he wanted to watch.

After naps, we went out and played on the swings that they got recently.  Adi loves them, but not really for swinging.  She likes jumping off the slide, then swinging across them like vines.  Her mom was so pleased I was letting her do that.

The next morning, I woke up before 7 with Deacon sitting on my shoulder blades, bouncing up and down.  Guess it was time to wake up.  :/  I got back that afternoon by rolling him and his sister up inside of the deflated blow up mattress. 

I was pretty grateful that I got to visit my family this weekend.  Not only did they let me do my laundry, feed me (Curry and Sweet and sour chicken. Yum), give me a place to stay, but we got to just chat and hang out.  I love that.  I miss having family closer.