Waterpark of America

This coming weekend I will be spending some time in the cities. In Bloomington there is a great hotel next to the Mall of America. They call it the Radisson and Waterpark of America. It has many great features and it a fairly big hotel. It has many tube slides, a lazy river, and a wave pool. My favorite thing is the Family Raft Ride. It really gets the adrenaline going as your sliding through the big tube and whipping around corners. I started going here a few years ago and try to come at least once or twice a year. It is a great place to get away. Especially in the winter when your just  itching for swimming in the water. This is a place that brings a little summer to you even during winter months. I am going to spend some time there with my sister, her fiance, my nieces, and nephew. It is always a blast everytime we go and I never want to head back home. But who does want to come back when they go on a little vacation? Also, since it is so close to the Mall of America, I get to do some shopping. Which is most definitely one of my favorite things to do!!

Facebook

I am definitely an avid Facebook user. I am probably on there alot more than I should be. It is very distracting too when I am in the process of trying to get my homework done. I think that seeing what people are up to that day and viewing their pictures can be so very interesting.

 Facebook is a way to connect with everyone you know and also keep in touch and see what people you haven't seen in a while are doing. There are also down sides to Facebook. There are a majority of people who post every little thing they do. Do you really want everyone to know that much about you and your life? Facebook has also created alot or arguments between people. Drama is a big issue on Facebook that I have noticed. Some post something in hopes to have their enemy see it and hoping it gets to them. Alot of people post things they really shouldn't. Facebook is also a thing that determines whether you can get a job or not. Many employers check that stuff out to see what kind of person they are hiring. By saying that, I think Facebook has it's pros and cons.

Montana

Currently my friend and I are waiting for an e-mail. We applied to Elkhorn Ranch in Montana for the summer! We talk about it almost everyday. I am really hoping to recieve something very soon. Montana is a beautiful state....I have never been there but from what I have heard it seems to be very beautful. It would be a great experience since there is pretty much nothing here holding me back. Being young and having this chance.....might as well take it! I check my e-mail everyday and cross my fingers that the next day I will finally get something back!! (:

A day with Grandpa Wayne

When I was younger I spent alot of the week at my Grandma and Grandpa's house during the summer. This is where I would go while my parents went to work. Just like any other morning you could hear the coffee maker going as you stepped inside. Also that smell of coffee spread through the house. As I would be walking to the bedroom door and hear the Price is Right on TV, I knew grandpa was up. I would walk in and sit by him on the bed. Once in a while you could see Grandpa pull out the comb from his back pocket to slick back his hair. After the show was over, I would go and get another cup of coffee for him, and when he finshed that we would head out to the backyard. Grandpa loved birds, his favorite being the Yellow Finch. He would take out his bird book and show me all the different kinds we saw out back and the difference between the males and females. I never could understand why the males were prettier than the females though! He had many different feeders for the birds. We would go and get the feed from the shed and fill them up, and something a little sweeter we would give to the hummingbirds. There was also a bag of peanuts he kept in the shed for the chipmunks. Usually if I grabbed a handfull, half of it I would eat myself! (: There was a rock wall into the side of the woods in their backyard where the chipmunks would be. Sometimes grandpa could get the chipmunks to take the peanuts directly from his hands. I tried that so many times, but I would be out there forever trying to get them to take them from my hand. They would always peek through the rocks and than scatter, until I would finally set them on the rock for them to eat. After doing this we would sit outside on the back porch and chat while he enjoyed his favorite Pall Mall cigarette. When it was time for me to go home I knew grandpa would ask me to come into his bedroom to get some sort of candy. He kept them either in his nightstand drawer or a bag somewhere in the room. I always had so much fun at their house and was excited to go back the next morning. Lucky for me if I wanted to visit, their house was in the next town only 5 minutes away. If I had another day with him, I know we would be watching the Price is Right, drinkin coffee, and feeding birds and chipmunks. One thing that will always remind me of my Grandpa Wayne will be a Yellow Finch.