going to see sierra

i'm going to california this thrusday and i'm gonna my niece! this is my new favorite picture of her... until she's big enough to wear the vans slip ons and bib i got her. i'll probably like that picture the most!

4th of July!

hey, i'm finally sitting down and writing about something!

for the 4th of july i went to idaho with my roommate darren and we stayed with a relative of his. we left provo around noon in a car w/o air conditioning, so the trip up there was pretty not fun. our mouths kept getting dry and the slurpees we got from a gas station (not 7-11) ended up making us feel way sick. also, in idaho, darren got pulled over and given a ticket for speeding. that was pretty funny. the picture is kind of small, but that's the cop car in the side mirror.

that night we all went to watch a firework show. it wasn't that impressive, but it was still fun. on the way there, darren got pulled over again because he didn't signal when he made a right turn. the police asked if we had any illegal drugs or weapons and asked to see my i.d. also. it was pretty weird. darren didn't get a ticket though. the next morning on the 5th, we hit the rivers! we went kayaking in the morning. it was so much fun. at first i got in my kayak and paddled about three times then completely flipped over! it was pretty embarrassing. but once i got back in, i never fell out again and was even going down some rapids sideways and spinning 360s and what stuff. that's definatly a hobby i can get in to.

later in the evening, we went to a different river with huge rapids and did some white water rafting! darren and i were sitting in the front of the raft. those rapids were pretty big and sometimes they'd send me and darren flying in the air. we mostly landed back in the raft, but once i got bounced up and then the raft moved to the right, so my lower half was in the water and i was holding on to the edge of the raft with one arm and holding my paddle with the other. it was pretty intense!

also, we got a new roommate. management didn't even tell us that he was coming, so i came home from work and there he was... everyone should get a chance to meet him because he's really interesting... here's a little taste of the new guy.

so i've got some good news...

we lost all three games of bowling tonight.

but we didn't lose by that much.

and it was against the best team in the league.

and no one on our team has bowled in over 2 weeks. we're a little rusty.

and i think it might have been a practice game.

we decided to go with "the bowling stones" - jody's idea.

so i think we've got a good chance of doing well this semester.

that's all

-billy