San Diego with Sam

So when I went to lunch with Sam on the last day of finals we thought that would be the last time we hung out for two years, but it wasn't!! Sam has been visiting family in San Diego and yesterday I got to drive down and hang out with him, his family, and his cousin's friends haha I've always wanted to go do baptisms in the San Diego temple because the Newport Beach Temple opened right after I turned 12, so I never got the opportunity to go down to San Diego. Since I in San Diego, the first thing Sam and I did was go to the temple! The baptismal font is so cool there! I loved it!

It was defnitely an awesome experience! After the temple we headed back to Poway where we went to dinner with his cousin, Nate, and 2 of his friends. We had a cultural experience and got Vietnamese food! haha We even learned how to say some words in vietnamese (thanks to Diana) and we ordered in vietnamese...kinda  haha

The food was soo good! I got Pho Bo Vien and I was honestly surprised at how filling and delicious it was haha After that we just hit up red box and the junk food aisle at Albertsons so we could watch a movie and just "hang out". Shout out to Sam's cousins who let me hang out in their house when they had never met me before haha I had such a great time getting to know everyone and just having a good ole time haha annddd of course hanging out with Sam one last time before he heads off to the MTC!
I can definitely say it was a super duper thursday! :)

I Tried to Graduate Too Early to SPF4

Last summer I worked at Wild Rivers and after the first couple days of work I was able to wear SPF 4 tanning sunscreen and not get burned aka work on my tan. it was great. I got paid to get tan (and be a ride attendant)

Then I went to BYU in Utah, and got really white again.

Then I came home from Utah after 8 months and started using SPF 4 when I would go to the beach. I would go for a couple of hours, never reapply and all I would be was a pink, sometimes a little red. I would just put some aloe on it, and 2 days later the pink/sunburn would be gone and I would be less white!

Today I went to the beach for 5 hours, used SPF 4 all over (except for on my face I used SPF 30), and reapplied on most of my skin. Because I didn't re-apply frequently enough or use enough SPF... I am now a lobster.

And this lobster has her first day of work tomorrow, where she will be out in the sun with kids for 6 hours and in pain because of her sunburn. Not cool.

Moral of the Story: Don't use SPF 4 suncreen after living in Utah for 8 months even if you think you can handle it like you did last summer. Because you CAN'T! your skin still isn't used to the California sun. You have not graduated to the SPF4 tanning sunscreen yet. You've got a while till you build up your tan and can get on that level of expedential tan gain/whiteness loss due to the use of SPF4 tanning suncreen lotion.

We Are So Cool, You Should Be Friends With Us!

Would Ya?

So basically I love Go Country 105 even more because they sent me tickets to go see Brave at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood!

 It was a private showing at 6am so only people who won tickets could go! I went with my friends Kelsey and Ryan and we were part of one of the first audiences to see Brave! It whole experience was soo cool, except for the fact that we had to leave at 3:45am in order to get in line! They had free red wigs for everyone standing in line and willing to be interviewed! So Kelsey, Ryan, and I got red wigs and were interviewed twice before the movie and once after the movie!

 So look out for us cool cats on ABC 7 news sometime! haha We also happened to wait in line on the Hollywood Stars. which wasn't that big a deal for me, but I guess it would be to some people. Out of the ones I saw, the only ones I recognized were Tim Allen and Steven Speilberg. But any back to the Brave movie showing, they also had free Krispy Kreme Donuts and posters for everyone at the 6am show! Once we got into the theater they had a legit organist playing while we waited!

Only at a Disney owned theater would there be an organist treating you to disney songs while you wait haha at 6am they showed one commercial and then the curtain fell again. Then some singers, dancers, and characters came out and it basically was a mini musical thing before the movie started!

It was pretty awesome! And during the last song of the musical shenanigans the main character from Brave came out! It was a cool way to bring the character to life before the movie! The movie was pretty good but wayyy different than I thought it would be! And surprisingly the scottish accents didn't drive me crazy like I thought they would. Also, before the movie we were making fun of scottish accents and our motto was "would ya?" (said in a scottish accent) haha like the movies theme "if you had to chance to change your fate, would ya?" or "if you got free tickets to go to a movie and had to leave at 3:45 am, would ya?" haha The movie was surprisingly short for a pixar movie, but the surround sound was unbelievably awesome! Before we left we snagged some more pictures in the theater and across the street in the Hollywood Highland shopping center after this lady gave us free fans haha.

 

I was so tired by the time I got home and took an almost 2 hour nap before I left for my 7 hour work training! And then right after training I went babysitting. I didnt get home till a little after 11:30pm . Basically the longest day ever! haha Also, in my last post I mentioned my music video with Kathrine, still working on that because I had to download new a new movie editor program and convert all of the video files into a new format (which is still converting now and is taking foreverrr).  That's all I've got for now :) so peacee out

I like the Angels. I like turtles. I do not like dead sea lions.

So yesterday was pretty busy! I shadowed Dr. Shannon from 8:30 am - 12 pm, then camp home and helped load cement pieces into our truck and wrote out my mini lesson for cubscouts. from 2:15pm - 5:15pm I was with my brothers cub scout troops playing scientist, and from 6pm - 10:30pm I was out at the Angels game. Crazy day basically.

Since we got to the beach before low tide I was able to go into the Ocean Institute and say hi to my old boss Juilianne! Last year I was one of her animal husbandry interns so it was awesome to stop by and chat it up with her! I also got to go back and see the little turtle I would take on walks! We found him on the jetty last year and he was about the size of a quarter back then. Now his shell is about 5 inches in diameter! It's crazy how much he has grown since I last saw him in August. This is kinda what he looked like when I left the OI.

Oh I loved that little guy. Around 4 o'clock I said good-bye to Julianne and headed back to the beach to take the cub scouts exploring in the tide pools. I was looking forward to seeing lots of star fish but there were only two! Right at the beginning too. Usually I see like 15 starfish and most of them are close enough to shore that you can easily get to them and touch them! The only 2 we saw were too far out to get too. SO LAME. But we did see lots of sea anemones, crabs, algae, seaweed, and some little fish. We also saw a dead sea lion too.. super gross. As I was leading the boys along the trail we all smelled something really gnarly and my first instict was that there was a dead animal. So I was looking along the rocks in the water, not really watching the trail that I was walking on that much. I checked ahead for a second and saw what I thought was a big black rock, so I just kept scanning the waters edge to see if I saw anything. When I was about a foot or two away from the "black rock" I actually looked carefully at it, saw that the end closest to me was actually tail flippers,  and then yelled "Oh my gosh it's a dead sea lion!" and I made all the boys stop right away and walk like 5 feet around it. It was huge and that was the closest I have ever been too a sea lion haha the weird thing was that once you got on the north side of  you couldn't smell anything! On the way back a couple of the boys and I took a closer look. With my love for marine biology, I naturally wanted to get a closer look and see if I could see any wounds and/or figure out how it died. I think it had been dead for a couple days because it was pretty gnarly looking and about half its fur/ skin was missing. I hope I never have to see a dead marine mammal ever again. Especially one that has been dead for more than a day.. blechh  After the tide pools, I came home and quickly changed so I could head off too the Angels game!

The Angels played the San Francisco Giants and won the game 6 - 0! Woohoo! There were also a couple home runs so that was pretty sweet! anyway Shout out/ Thanks to Kelsey and Collin for letting me tag along!

Collin's "Creepin" Face"

Anyway that's about it for today! I made a music video with Kathrine this afternoon, so look forward to that soon as well as my post about the Brave showing I am going to tomorrow morning at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood! peacee out :)

1D

I gave my sister the new One Direction album for her birthday yesterday! We both love One Direction so it just made sense to buy her the album and since we share a room I would get to listen to it too! haha Also we made a deal that I would get her the album if she got me a One Direction poster. I think it is a pretty good deal haha. So basically this has been one of my pinterest found mottoes for a while...

Yay for 1D :)

I know, it's basically adorable! and Happy Father's Day!