Daringly Adventurous Chicas

On Wednesday, Mom planned on taking Mikaela to Dad's office. However, Mikaela was too scared to walk "all the way there," so she stayed home with Merinda and me. ...and we had a whole lot of fun. :)

First the girls jumped on the trampoline, and then I made them take pictures with me.

So, Merinda was just thrilled at the opportunity...well, sort of... :/ ...

But, she's still smokin' hot! ;)

After pictures in the yard/garden, we went back inside, ate, played cards, then set off on our daringly adventurous walk!

I absolutely love the crosswalk signs here! The man has a HAT!! <3

Cool, huh? :)

I LOVE MY SISTERS! Oh, gosh. They're so cute.

I told Merinda to go stand under the clock. Then I asked her, "What time is it?" She stared at the clock for a while then said "Four fifty-two." So I had to rephrase the question, or rather, demand, "No, *show* me what time it is."

"Oh." She raised her hands to the 10 o'clock position.

"No! Put your hand up a bit!" ...well, we eventually got it right-ish. :)

We have discovered a reliever for walking up hills! Just have someone stand behind you, and push! :D

This picture was taken in someone's yard, and they looked out the window, so I whispered to the girls, "Hurry up, guys. Someone's watching us..."

This is the "Caution: Children playing" sign...and Merinda chillin'.

Yay!! We made it back to the house!!

And then we went on the balcony...

This is Merinda *not* posing. ;)

And Mikaela was making a "cute" face for the camera.

And I'm just naturally like this--all the time! :)

Norge-first 3 days

The day after arriving (which took one more plane ride than we had planned on), we went on a "walk" (as my parents would like to call it, but to the truly realistic people, it was in face a sight-seeing exploration).

So, we saw the old Bergen, the original settlement of the German merchants. Note that this alleyway is right smack dab in the middle of the city, but you just turn down an alley and whalah! There you go!

Jaa!!

This lovely building is the house where plays and musicals are performed.

And this fellow, well, I just thought he was good lookin'.

Ah, yes. By the end of our excursion, I was too tired to do chase after Merinda, no matter how great the pictures could have turned out. Instead I told her to run down to the "big statue thing", and then proceeded to use the Zoom feature on my camera. Ah, what a delight.

***NOTE: Any "factual" information from this post regarding places is not 100% accurate. I may have been preoccupied during our "walk" to listen to the whole bit of information. Most of the subject matter is purely opinion...well, sort of. ;)

Dirty Alarm Clocks

4:48 a.m. The alarm goes off. I struggle to tear my eyes open, and look at the clock, even though I know what time it is... I'm really just trying to estimate if I have time to sleep more (I know, math in the early morning hours, not a good idea)... I close my eyes thinking about this... then I reach over and hit snooze. A few minutes into my happy, peaceful stay, and I find that I dreamt hitting the snooze button. The alarm is still going, playing the music on the radio. Great. Now I actually have to physically move. Yuck. So, I hit the snooze button, sigh, and roll over in hopes of getting 10 more minutes of sleep.

Stinkin' alarm clocks... I really think they go off just to taunt me...

Sunrise/Sunset-Beginning or End?

I searched for a long time--over ten minutes--looking for some funny joke about sunsets. When I couldn't find one, I decided to search for a "beginning/end" quote... well, that was harder than I thought. But, I finally found a quote I like... or a couple, rather.

"Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity."
-- Dan Custer

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
-- J.B. Priestly

Spanish Shakespeare

In Spanish class, we have to do these individual mini-projects. We could choose our topics from a list of five that the teacher made. I chose, "If you could eat dinner with any famous person, past or present, who would you have dinner with, and why?"

So, I would have dinner with Shakespeare because I would want to ask him, "Why Shakespeare? Why'd you do it?" Referring to, of course, the several plays he wrote which poor students now have to study, and be tested on, and so on and so forth.

Thanks a lot, Shakespeare.

First Step to Getting into College

The first step for your college career is--well, actually, it depends on who you ask--but, you should at some point probably figure out which college you want to go to. To help you with this, many colleges and universities will start sending you an obnoxious amount of e-mails in hopes of recruiting you.

This just so happened to start for me this year.

A couple of days ago I received an e-mail from a College.

The message said, "We've heard of you, Matilda. Have you heard of us?"

---Well, actually, *____* university, I haven't.

***LA LA LA LA LA**** ;)

And so... well, let's just say that I'm stuck on this first step, though I do have a couple places in mind...

****NOTE: This is meant to be a light-hearted, comical tid-bit from my life; I really do appreciate the effort colleges make for students--it makes it that much easier for future college students.

Yum-Delicious

I've been using this wonderful conditioner that smells absolutely amazing, and I can smell it all day and giggle and be consumed with joy over my lovely smelling hair. But, the other day, the conditioner ran out!!! EEEEEK!!! So, instead, I reached over the the green container, and lathered this new conditioner in my hair. Then I realized it smelled like mint. And what did this mint-smelling conditioner make me think of??? Mint chocolate, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and all minty, chocolatey foods. Great. So, now, my hair smells like dessert. What's going to stop me from eating my hair????

YUM YUM!!