Salmon to Salmon

Well the first block of Fall is over which means so are all the first block sports. I'm waiting for some more pictures to be uploaded by one of my fellow teammates, but until then I will upload the ones I have. We had a good season on both of the teams I was on. Hannah Salmon and I were on an Ultimate Frisbee and Flag Football team. Kandice Palmer was also on the Flag Football team with us. Our team, The Green Beans, an all girls team, got knocked out of the finals in the semi-final round ranking us Third for the season. Not too shabby. Some of those girls were INTEEENSE! Hannah and I had a little play called Salmon to Salmon. Well really it was just I ran out either left or right side, which ever Hannah said, and she threw it to me. We pulled it off in our last game but even with our awesome plays and sweet moves we were still defeated by the Trash Queens. In Ultimate Frisbee our Co-ed team made it to the Championships. Once again The "Eh" Team was reunited from last season. Adding a few new players (Hannah being one of them) and losing a few others. Our regular season wasn't too hot, but we pulled through when it got to the tournament. win after win we moved up the bracket until our last game where we played the 1st ranked team. we lead the game 6-5 until the last minute when the scored. 5 minutes of overtime were put on the clock and in the end we lost by a single point. The wind was not in our favor and neither was the lack of substitutes. they had 14 players, only needing 7 on the field at a time. They constantly had fresh legs and a height advantage on us. Their shortest male player was still 6'2". Hannah played an outstanding game. She was better then some of the guys on our team even hahaha. I pulled my hamstring in a game earlier in the week so Hannah definitely picked up the slack. Everyone in the stadium was whispering "Who's that girl?!" and I proudly yelled out "THAT'S MY COUSSSSIN!" So although we didn't end up with the most coveted Intramural Champion T-shirt we still had a fun season.

DBW. (Dance Battle Wednesdays)

Well for any of you that have ever attended BYU-Idaho or Ricks College or lived in Rexburg will understand when I attempt to explain DBW. Well, Rexburgians (Locals and College Students) are always trying to come up with great ideas to make Rexburg cool, trendy and fun. These attempts have had reasonable success but often phase out after a few months, or when the semester is over, or even if those that started the event graduate. Currently the "TRENDY EVENT" is DBW. Dance Battle Wednesdays. DBW has been going strong now since winter semester. It started out in the lounges and clubhouses of various apartment complexes and grew to the point of needing to rent out the REX center on Wednesday nights. I attended my FIRST DBW a few weeks ago when it was held at the Rexburg Airport. The flyers always say "SPECIAL GUESTS, DJ's and DANCERS" which really holds no value when the "Special Guest" is your FHE brother or hometeacher. Regardless my roommates (who are avid DBW attenders) and I went to this particular DBW. Special Guests from MTV were suppose to be attending and Dance Battlers from Utah, California and Colorado were also expected to be present. To make a long story short... People dance battled it out for over an hour and a half while we stood there watching. This asian ballerina chick even got up and started dancing elegantly to hiphop. That was the point when the whole thing ended and they turned the music on for everyone in the audience who paid $3.00 to stand in a large circle, to finally get their chance to dance. All in all I was glad I attended just so know what it was like, but I can't make any guarantees that I will attend again in the future. It is every Wednesday night 8:00pm-11:00pm. Break dancers spin around on their backs, heads and hands while poor college students pay the price of a subway sandwich to watch... if you ask me, this perhaps is the best CON/trend that has ever hit Rexburg. Other past events I can recall that didn't survive include: Ultimate Fighting Mondays (After being spiritually uplifted at FHE, boxing with absolutely no rules took place in various locations around town each Monday at 9:00pm) This event was eventually shutdown by the school and the local police. Fugitive Fridays (Friday nights people would meet at Porter or Smith Park to join in a giant game of Fugitive) this was probably my favorite event thus far. As you can see from the pictures, I battled it out a little myself too at DBW.

Utah Trip

Well a while ago we went to Utah for a quick trip for conference. I didn't get the chance to even see any of my FAMILY! It was a short trip, and we were unfortunate not to get or have any tickets for conference. It was a rainy weekend so basically a lot of shopping was done inside the mall. You never realize how small Rexburg is until you go to somewhere bigger like Provo... Or I guess even Idaho Falls. We played a lot of Mafia and games when we stayed at Paige's house. Utah is always fun to visit because it always is like one big reunion. I was able to see friends that have graduated or that have transfered schools and visit with them all. It was a fun but SHORT weekend. Sorry I didn't get around to seeing my Utah Cousins (And Aaron and Stacey)

September 29, 2007. SNOW DAY.

That is right, it is snowing today in Rexburg. I have been in school for a little over two weeks now. My apartment has the best chemistry. Everyone gets along really well and we love being with each other. I’m in the same ward still (56th ward) and I love it. I am still a Relief Society teacher, which is really fun. School is in full force now which means I find myself in the testing center almost every other day. Not much has been happening in Rexburg. The first week of school we had nice weather and my whole apartment went and played in the river. There have been two huge bonfires which most of the school attended both out at the sand dunes. I hate the sand dunes. Its windy and sand gets in everything. You come home smelling like smoke (and laundry isn’t cheap here) and the whole point of the event is to get dressed up and mingle with people… BUT YOU CAN’T EVEN SEE ANYONE CAUSE YOU ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT AT NIGHT! However I did attend both bonfires as a result of having absolutely NOTHING else to do. APX alarm threw their annual fall party which wasn’t as impressive as last falls event. I guess I am just becoming all partied out. I am on a co-ed ultimate Frisbee team (The “EH” team) and a girls flag football team (GreenBeans) they’re both really fun, except when we have horrible weather, like today… I'm on both teams with my cousin Hannah, and on the flag football team with Kandice Palmer. Oh, and Kaiti Pratt came up to visit Rexburg a week ago. (COME BACK SOON) I'll try to update again soon. I don't have anything to blog about like... oh I don't know... A BABY?!

Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday.

Bahahahaha... Every time I think about this cheap cellophane type banner hanging above one of the windows in my family’s kitchen I begin to laugh. I think it is going on almost one year of being there in the same place. I know for a fact that it was up last Christmas, when Dahl was at our home celebrating his 2nd birthday. But, it could have been up long before that. And after I leave for school, in a few short days, who knows how much longer it will remain above the window. A few weeks ago my mom asked me to take it down, but then quickly retracted the request when she realized, Matt’s birthday was just around the corner (August 9th). Just this weekend we were going to take it down again, but realized Lisa’s birthday is on Wednesday. Shortly after that we will be celebrating Matt and Lisa’s baby’s birth, and that birthday will be followed by Mike’s on October 22nd… In other words, I feel as if this 99cent cellophane banner is here to stay…

Homeward Bound

Well I will be leaving Rexburg in less then 24 hours, and before I did so I wanted to finish off the semester with a new post. I can’t believe this will only be my third post this semester. I’m going to try to do better during the fall semester. Summer semester activities are always the same anyway… Boating, swimming, and eating plenty of popsicles and cool treats. (By the way, for those of you lucky enough to have a Maverick (the gas station) in your area they have the BEEEEST frozen yogurt. It’s Danon Non-Fat Yogurt, mmmm delicious. The flavors change daily, you serve your self from the yogurt machine, and it’s CHEAP. It’s so good; I don’t know what I will do for 7 weeks while I am in Atlanta. Not all Mavericks have it though, but keep your eyes peeled. The best one I’ve had thus far has been NY Cheesecake and a Very Strawberry in a TWIST…) Anyway so the semester just flew right by. I had a final project in my culinary arts class where I had to cook a meal for atleast 6 people (there was plenty of paperwork and planning involved, which was annoying, but the eating part was FABULOUS!) I went with a French theme, which called for so many delicious dishes. Finals ended on Wednesday, and mostly everyone left Rexburg then, or shortly before then even. So I have been in Rexburg a lone for a while, when the college is closed this city almost becomes a ghost town. The last weekend before finals Danielle, Paige and I decided we would go to a party that we received a flyer for. It read “BRING BACK THE FUNK” with a guy and a big afro on it. typically, this would mean a 70’s party. So the three of us dressed according to the 70’s. tye-dye shirts, 70’s bands t-shirts, faded jeans, and wavy hair… upon arriving we saw people dressed in spandex and bright colors and nasty plastic jewelry. (the plastic jewelry and leggings is oddly enough back in right now too) but anyway, EVERYONE ELSE WAS DRESSED 80’s! We were so confused, and since the party was lame with about 20 people dancing in a circle, we left soon after. The lack of guests could have been to the bad publicity. Whatever. I had the chance to go down to go down to Logan for 4th of July. IT WAS A BLLLLAST. I always love going to the Lee’s. It’s nice to have real home cooked meals once in a while, and we ALWAYS have the best food there. We had our ward closing social last weekend. It was nice and hot out and we were at the lake for almost 12 hours!! There were only two people that got hurt out of all 100 of us. Me and my friend Emily. I just bit a little hole in my lip and my chin had a bruise on it for a few days from where my knee had hit it. She on the other hand completely broke her nose and just got it set on Thursday. On Sunday a lot of names were called for being released from their callings, but “SARA SALMON” was never called. Later I was told I would be a relief society teacher in the fall, the one picture is after my lesson about a month ago. The Rexburg temple is ALMOST done too! Anyway, I need to get to bed here in a bit, I have a full day of traveling tomorrow. I’ll snap a few pictures of the 20 passenger plane I’ll be on from Idaho Falls to Salt Lake – SCARY!