Monday, July 23, 2007

Here I sit to finish writing out my 6-day excursion. Not just because it was asked for by popular demand X) but because I will manage to somehow forget it if I don't finish.

So where was I? Maybe I'll just start from after we evacuated. So.. we're up Parowan mountain. It's pitch black. We try and set up some tents, but finding the tents seemed to be the problem. Most of us curled up on the lil ole cow-pie ridden ground with our sleeping bags (which were equally difficult to locate).

Anyhow, yada yada, we got through that first night up there. I spent most of it staring up at the stars (they seemed to multiply up there. due to city lights, you can barely see even orion from here) and freezing my butt off because I forgot to take an extra blanket.

We all finally wake up and start putting up tents and my little sister runs up to me out of nowhere and gives me a big hug. This will need some explaining, seeing as I do not really have a little sister. They decided it would be fun to issue us older people little first years to watch. Or moreof just to check on them from time to time to make sure everything was okay with them. My little sister happened to be a little angel. Every time I turned around, there she was. Giving me hugs, bubble gum, and asking me how I was doing. She totally turned the tables on me. But at least I never had to spend any time looking for her, now did I?
So anyway, we get our tents up and my friend Cyndy and ex friend Emily are getting ready to head down to the lake/swamp. You could see it down in the valley from where we were at and it looked really pretty. So we headed on down. I have to tell you, it looked a lot closer than it really was. I bet it was at least two miles down there. But we survived, came back all tired. They still didn't have the portapotties yet but I talked one of the head guys with a camper into letting me use his bathroom so I didn't have to go outside.
I don't wanna talk about the rest of that day. All I did was hike, walk, get tired and sunburned due to numerous trips to the swamp and due to the fact that my best friend Leah's camp was way out in the boondocks and you had to walk like a mile just to get there.
The next two days I practically lived at Leah's camp. Firstly, because they didn't mind that I was there. Secondly, my ward didn't even notice I was gone. So it was good, we had fun. My time with Leah was composed of more trips to the swamp, trips to the cows (amazingly hillarious), and sitting idly on fallen trees talking for hours. Yay for best friends who actually listen to you when you talk!
So yup.. now.. I need to talk about the cows. And then I will spare you the misery of listening to my camp experience. I'd keep going, but my fingers are tired and it wouldn't be too interesting to those of you who aren't mormon..

But the cows!!!
Emily, Cyndy and I set off one fine second day of being at Parowan. We could see the cows wayy off in the distance. They had fenced it off so that they couldn't come up and bother us. So we walked way down there. It took us a while because Emily has a cast on her leg. We finally reached them, and Emily jumps the fence. She goes right out in the middle, lays down, and starts whistling like a cricket. All the cows came and circled, licking and sniffing her. Then she sat up really quick and scared them to death and they all ran away. So she comes back out and tells me it's my turn. I'm like okay, whatev. So I jump in there (the cows are closer now from the Emily escapade) and I lay down. I can't whistle with my retainers in, so I just sang. It did the trick. Soon I was surrounded in all these cows. One named 64 licked my foot. I got up really slowly so as not to scare them and they didn't run away. I was able to pet 64 and walk quietly away. I still feel proud for petting a schizophrenic cow.

Well.. now I've talked about four of the six days. That better?

Well, it's early and I'm really tired, so I'm heading off to bed.
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