I went to my stake's pioneer trek last month(?), and it was amazing. We covered somewhere around 30 miles in 3 days! It was all walking too. It was most likely the hardest thing I've done physically, like, ever but it was so worth it. I can't even begin to imagine the hardships that the actual pioneers went through. The hardest part was definitely our "Rocky Ridge". It was a steep, uphill, rocky hike of about 1~2 miles. And all of the trek leaders kept telling us that there was only like, a 1/4 mile left.
LIES.
My favorite day though, was the last day. We had the oppurtunity to just hang out at the campsite (which was huge, by the way), and could even play games if we wanted! I tried out some stilts (much harder than they look) and I made a deformed little candle, but then as I usually do, I got bored and needed a drink. So I dragged Haley back to our handcart to get some water and found my good ol' buddy ol' pal, Ryan. He'd gotten heat exhaustion and a bunch of other delightful ailments, and so we talked with him for a while. Within 20 minutes or so, a bunch of my friends had gathered and we all hung out at the handcart for hours. It was so much fun!
I also helped to start a fashion trend at the pioneer trek with my suspenders. ;
See? It totally makes the outfit, right?
I'll admit, the first female pioneer I saw wearing suspenders was Kaite, but I got red ones. Which makes me cool, oh yes. And when I started wearing mine, alot of people noticed and tried to get hot suspenders of their own. So I win. The end.
The next thing I did this summer was EFY.
ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT HEY!
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E. F. Y.
So much fun!!
I met a ton of new friends, and had a great experience!
If you didn't read so on my mother's blog, there were 1,301 people in my session making it the biggest EFY session of the summer.
And beleive me, the lines were CRAZY.
But I had a great time at the 2 dances, FHE Night, Games Night, Pizza Night, Testimony Meeting, and during all the random things me and my friends did during Free Time.
One day, Seth Hoyt III, Camille, Megan and I found some lab coats for sale in the BYU bookstore and figured we'd try them on. One of the employees started giving us dirty looks, and started to call somebody on his phone. So we booked it out of there, except for Seth, who proceeded to waste about 12 dollars on a lanyard. Good Times.
We also found a pair of slippers in the girls' lobby, and decided to leave the owner a note and some money. We slipped a quarter into the slippers, and a note that read : "I dare you to wear these to morningside tomorrow. I you do I will confront you."
It was all Seth, I swear, and when he was in the midst of writing the above letter, a girl we didn't know walked into the room, looked around the corner at the slippers, then walked away.
She didn't ever wear the slippers to morningside.
I didn't actually start taking pictures until the second to last day, because I didn't feel like it, but I got over 200 pictures in the end.
I'll post them later.
If you aren't a blogger user, I'll let you know that uploading pictures is a very frustrating activity.
So at the moment, I'm back at home, not packing for girl's camp, but I'll be eleaving tomorrow morning for 4th year camp. We're supposed to have an adventure camp, being 4th years and all, so it'll be pretty chill. I'm excited. =D
YAAAAAAYYYY.
