Early Bout of Summer

Today it was 70 degrees!! It was SO nice. We went to a college softball game. Both teams were really good. It was tied 2-2 at the top of the 7th inning (in college softball, there are only 7 innings). With two outs left, the 2nd baseman hits this holy-cow-over-the-fence-into-the-soccer-field home run to end the game and give the home team the win!!! It was SO much fun.

Afterward I went to Hannah's (from Chicken News) house and we played outside the entire day. We went on the rope swing and I got scraped up on my knee, (I don't think I've ever escaped Hannah's house unscathed) then Hannah and I climbed a tree and showed me where she engraved someones name in like 4th grade. Then I engraved something too. It's surprisingly easy to engrave things in trees; the bark was really soft, so I just used my fingernail. We played with the chickens; I held Julia, Pearl, and Lemony, but mostly Julia. This time I didn't have an "AG incident" as Hannah calls it. Julia and Jasper raced, and Julia won! Hannah showed me the "monument" she and Emma built for Charles. It was pretty awesome-tastical.

Crazy Climate at Cannon Beach

On Saturday morning, my mom, dad, cousin, and I all drove down to Cannon Beach in Oregon for Spring Break! It was so much fun.

We stayed at this AH-mazing hotel called the Surfsand. It had SO many ammenities it was CRAZY. It had Tempurpedic mattresses, a flat-screen TV, a complimentary bucket with s'mores fixings, a heated pool, a sauna, complimentary board games and DVDs that you could rent from the front desk, complimentary ice cream cones on Saturdays, a HUGE bowl of saltwater taffy free for the taking, a jar of chocolate chip cookies sitting on the front desk with a bucket of milk next to it, a view of Haystack Rock:a jacuzzi tub, a walk-in shower, and a TV in the BATHROOM! (Ring any bells, Maki?) It was the coolest hotel EVER!!!

The weather was kind of weird. The first day, it was raining HARD and sideways. The next day, it was HAILING sideways. It would hit you on the back of the legs and it HURT. Our pants were literally DRIPPING. The next day it was actually sunny!

We got a kite on Sunday and flew it on Sunday and Monday.

(is that not the coolest kite you've ever seen?)

It was great. We also went to the "Marine Garden" and saw starfish, and mussels, and sea sponges and all this other cool stuff. Our quest was to find a whole sand dollar, but no success. Too bad. We went to this awesome candy store with these HUGE barrels of saltwater taffy. There was watermelon, orange, chocolate, peanut butter and jelly, blue raspberry, even butter (but...EW!) I got this awesome hat and shirt. On the way home, we had lunch at Nike! My mom's good friend works for Nike in the Mia Hamm building, so we had lunch there. The cafeteria was AWESOME! It had burgers, soup, salad, stir-fry, all sorts of drinks, even a frozen yogurt machine! We also got to go to the Nike employee store, where everything is half-price what it would be at a regular Nike Store. I got these AH-mazing shoes:

We also saw this funny sign.

3 Days Left!!!!

THREE DAYS LEFT UNTIL SPRING BREAK!!!!! FIFTY SEVEN HOURS AND FORTY SIX MINUTES UNTIL SPRING BREAK!!!!!!! On Friday, my cousin is flying over and then on Saturday we're driving to CANNON BEACH!!!!! YAY YIPPEE WAHOO ZIPPADEEDOODAH SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!