My Week

Well once again I thought this week that I would decide that I would do this a little every night but look it still isn’t happening. So I am going to tell you about my week. On Monday I did nothing, Tuesday I went ice-skating at the Bountiful Bubble for a combined young men’s young women’s activity. Then afterwards my scoutmaster and a few others took us to Burger King afterwards. Then on Wednesday I did nothing again. Then on Thursday I went to Alice in Wonderland the school rhapsody play. I had to go for yearbook to take pictures. It was really good. I at first sat on the floor right up front but that was too close and I almost got kicked in the face a few times when they decided to get up and dance. Then I just about tripped poor little Alice with my feet on accident. So I decided that wasn’t working and got up and went to the back. Where I sat on the counter and used the giant telescopic lens on the camera to take good pictures. So then it is now Friday and the week really flew by fast. When I got home from school Friday me and a friend walked to McDonald’s and got dinner then we stopped on our way home at Dan’s to get pop and brownies. Then we took our food to our church pavilion and at it there. Then on Saturday my little brother had a soccer game that I was going to go to at 8:00 in the morning. Which to me really isn’t that early. But the only thing was that the game was clear in Provo. So when his coach wants him there an hour early that means we had to get up at 5:00 and leave at 5:45 am. Now that’s a little early for me. So we did that came home and went to the Layton High football game. I was going with another friend and we went a little late. So we got there about five minutes into the first quarter and the score was already 28 to 0. We weren’t sure whether to go in our not because it was really clear that Layton was going to win against Spanish Fork. So of course they did with a final score of 48 to 7. Then afterwards I went over to my friend’s house. Then he had to go because my little brother had a basketball game and my friend had to go to his football game. He got to play under the lights at the football stadium at Weber State. I sounded like lots of fun. Then after that I went to the ward Halloween party it was kinda fun except of when somebody decided to barf on the floor and on me. (No not really just they spilled soup all over the floor and me then dumped root beer down my pants.) So with that information you should be able to guess who it was. Then after the party my friend and I rented a movie and watched it that night. It was really good. It was Premonition. I don’t know if you have seen it or not. If you haven’t seen it I would recommend it. It’s a really good thriller movie. So that was my week, and we will see what my week has in store over the UEA weekend.

Goblin Valley

Over the weekend I went to Goblin Valley for a scout camp out, and had a blast. Also I learned a lot: watch out for very large speed limit signs, how much speeding tickets cost, how many calories a Baconator is at Wendy’s, why scouts don’t normally stay in hotels, how small of a town Green River is, wear tall socks with your hiking boots, don’t climb higher than you can get down, and so so much more. So let me tell you about this campout. (I have pictures and a video at the bottom) So after school on Friday we left for the four-hour drive to Green River Utah where we would be staying the night in a hotel. We left around three and drove until Price where we stopped for dinner at Wendy’s. I was starving so I ordered the famous “Baconator”. It was great after I wiped off all the grease. No but I all seriousness it really was good. So on our way out the door to go to the car to finish our journey I went to the front desk ordering place to get a refill on my drink. While I was waiting I saw a Nutrition Facts list and guess how many calories my Baconator was. 830 Calories. I just about threw up. I figured that my whole meal with fries and a drink was 1500 calories. So leaving the restaurant a little queasy I got in the car and about an hour later we made another stop but this one was unexpected. As we entered into another small city called Wellington my scoutmaster didn’t see that the speed limit had changed the speed now to much much lower than we had been traveling. We noticed that right as a cop pulled behind us and turned on his lights. The rather large cop got out of his car and explained to us how there were four 4x10 foot speed limit signs telling us about the change and three more signs before that that said “Reduce Speed Ahead”. Somehow we missed all of those and got an $82 ticket. So after the short stop we continued on until we reached Green River where we would be staying the night in a hotel. We got to the hotel unpacked a little and went to go get ice cream. The problem was there was no ice cream. No restaurants, gas stations, stores or anything else we could find was open, and it was only 8:30 at night. So that should tell you how small of a town it is. We finally found this small little restaurant called Ben’s Café but it turns out they have no ice cream. So instead we ordered scones nachos and pie. We got back to the hotel about 9:30 played football in the pool and were ready for bed by midnight. All the leaders were in one room and me and three others in another. It was nice because I got a bed all to myself. So after the other three finished playing cards until 1:00 we finally went to bed. We got up the next morning ate breakfast packed up and went to the car. We drove another hour to Goblin Valley. We got out hiked around climbed up the giant rocks, explored caves and had lots of fun. We hiked back to the cars after a morning of fun to eat. Back a few months ago my Bishop bought a Ford Bronco because he likes to go 4-wheeling with his car. So since that’s what he drove to Goblin he decided that he wanted to take us all off-roading in the desert. So I got into my scoutmaster’s GMC Yukon and we went to follow the Bishop in his car. We thought the Yukon wouldn’t make it because it is lower to the ground than the Bronco but we decided we would follow as far as we could. After doing donuts in the sand we set off the 4x4 trail. We hit two intense bumps. One we were going about 60 mph on the dirt road and a small foot deep ditch snuck up on us so we couldn’t stop in time. Then the other we was the same situation but we stopped in time but still was going to fast and the back of the Yukon hit the ground and we all flew up into the air and hit our heads on the roof. After about 1-½ hours of speeding along dirt roads, climbing over rocks and skidding through sand along the trail the Bishop drove into a ditch. He was really stuck. So we got out a tow strap and hooked it to the Yukon and as we pushed and the car pulled we finally got him out. There we turn around there and drove back to the main highway. Then on the way home the weather went from sunny to cloudy to rain to harder rain, to snow, to more snow to blizzard then to slush then more rain all the way home. I am glad the snowplows were out to plow the canyon road or else it would have been really bad. So I eventually got home late Saturday night. As you can probably tell it really was a blast.

From boring to fun to sad all in one very strange week.

So every week I decide that everyday after school I am going to write a little about what happened that day. So then if I do that I will eventually end up with enough words by Sunday night to just write a little more to sum it all up. But I never actually do it and I end up stressing every Sunday night trying to get it done with all my homework and trying to get to bed somewhat early. So once again its 10:30 at night and I have set a goal in my head to try and write a little every day so I don’t have to do this anymore. Then I set here and try to decide what to write about. But I am going to tell you about my week. So last Monday I came home and did absolutely nothing. Then Tuesday was a lot of fun. So my friend’s parents went out of town to St. George. They left on Saturday and came back Wednesday of last week. But the only thing was they didn’t bring my friend that is my age and left him home alone for the week. So I was my family’s responsibility to kind of watch over him while they were gone. So Tuesday was his last night alone so we had a little fun. We rented two movies: “Sphere” (we had both read the book for science class.) and “The Bourne Ultimatum.” (We had watched “The Bourne Identity” the Saturday before. So first we watched Sphere, I was a terrible movie. I loved the book but the movie was strange, off topic and kind of gross. I really had some kind of grisly parts for only being PG-13.Then we cooked dinner and made a pan of brownies that we ate while we watched The Bourne Ultimatum. I really liked it. I have seen The Bourne Identity like nine times but hadn’t seen the next one until then. It was exciting and suspenseful, but confusing. That is one of the reasons I like the series so much is that even though it is confusing everything seems to still make perfect sense. It just adds to the suspense of the story. Then on Wednesday I went to the Jazz game for a Young Men’s activity. It was so much fun. My neighbor is the head security guard for the Energy Solutions Arena. (Still seems strange to call it that) He is in charge of patrolling the court and escorting the referees of safely. (He had to tackle somebody once and arrest them.) So anyway after the game he took us down onto the court floor. We learned a little about what he does and got a tour of the stadium from behind the scenes. Thursday I sat at home and did nothing. Friday I got home from school and had to go to the doctor to have a mole removed. They game me a little shot and scraped it off with this electric burner razor thing. Then I went to the Layton game. Layton one of course but nobody was really paying attention because that was where we all found out about Scott Nye. There was a big rumor saying that he was dead. Nobody believed it until we all started getting text messages saying: “Pass this on in the beloved memory of Scott.” And “We love and will miss you Scott” Then we all figured out that he really did die. Then when I got home that’s all I could think about all night, and even today and I cant help but wonder "What if it was me?" or "What if I was one of his friends?" watching him get shocked then fall and die. Then call the ambulance and see them try to bring him back to life. It’s just really sad and really hits home that it can happen to anybody. I mean it doesn’t mean as much when you hear about the news and think "Oh that’s sad" but then that’s it. But when you actually know the person and have friends that were really good friends with them it just means a lot more. Just everyone else please remember how precious life is and how easy it is to mess it up or even lose it forever.

"To spend or not to spend....that is the question."

So once again I have now idea what to write about so I guess I will tell you about my week. Well I guess that I didn’t have much of an exciting week, I really didn’t do much. Lets see… I went to one of my brothers soccer games, I reffed three soccer games and mowed two lawns in the rain Friday after school. (That’s what I do for my job) Well other then that I did nothing. I ate out this week at Applebee’s and The Pie. Well if you didn’t notice im just talking hoping to find something interesting to write about. But its obviously not working. But look I just used word count and have 120 words! So I guess im getting somewhere. Ah just thought of something. When I was reading through what I wrote I read over the part about reffing and me mowing and how that’s my job. Then I though about this, “Do you get to spend the money you earn or do you have to put it in the bank and save it?” Here I am making all this money and my parents wont let me buy anything they make me save all of it. I put $415 dollars in the bank yesterday! And whenever I put money in the bank they wont let me take any of it out, I just never see it again. I get in the same argument with them every time I decide I want to buy something. I see a point in saving money especially when college isn’t really that far away and I will have my drivers license in less then a year, since the cost of gas and insurance keeps going up. So at one time we had and agreement where I could spend $25 dollars for every $100 I put in the bank. Which worked out just fine when I am making a lot of money. But I only made one purchase before they decided that that didn’t work either. But now as I got older I’ve thought about all the stuff I want and they are actually letting me buy some of them. Like I wanted a new bike they said I could buy it and so I picked one out and they said that they would even pay for half of it. I wondered why did they let me buy half of that when my half was A LOT of money. I mean much more than double anything else I ever wanted. But then I realized all the things I wanted before were just like video games and other pointless things that I wanted then but probably would never use again. Kinda like those Christmas presents that you want so bad then you get it and love it…for about the first month, then you all know what happens after that because I know that it has happened to everybody at least once. So I have kindaa drifted off topic but at least you know about my saving (or is it spending?) dilemma. And if you have made it this far in reading my blog please comment and tell me what your parents policy of spending or saving is. Or maybe you don’t have a policy and can spend all you want, or just don’t make any money so you don’t get things. Or maybe you are just rich and ask your parents for anything you want and they buy it for you.