For all of you family and friends in the south, I'm coming down! Less than two weeks -- a little earlier than expected. I'll be leaving on the 25th and getting to Dallas hopefully on the 27th, and then on to Monroe on the 28th to find an apt. The apartment I thought I had lined up ended up falling through, so I'm on the hunt. Still feels like a lot of details are up the air presently about school, finances, and moving, but God's teaching me patience and I'm having to trust, which is good. ha Much easier to write than it is to put into practice.

This week, I'm going hiking with friends Kathy and Tom in Yellowstone. I'm really excited about that. We'll leave Tues. eve. and come back on Thurs. afternoon. Then the college/singles group at church is having a campout this weekend. If my plans weren't in hyperdrive, I would stay the whole time, but I'll go hang out with them for the day and go rafting. My friend Gina is planning to go up with me which will be a blast. I have been so blessed with good friends. I remember in high school really wanting and praying for friends and God has answered that prayer amazingly. I've especially been realizing this since last week on the way back from Red Mountain, we went through Grand Junction and stayed with my friend Andrea's family. They are so great. Her dad Ron has just written a book called Breaking the Cycle of Sin. I'm excited to read that. I then rode back home here with her here so she could visit for a couple of days. She always challenges me so much in my relationship with God, and she is hilarious. I laugh a ton when I'm with her. Thursday evening we met Gina and went to an old downtown-bohemian-green-everyone is riding bicycles for their transportation part of town. We got ice cream. Actually I got sorbet -- frozen lemonade was the flavor and it was delicious.

On our drive back as we got close to Twin Falls I saw the sign for Shoshone Falls (supposed to be "the nigagra of the west") and started talking about how I wished I could go there and McCall and Stanley this summer, but there was just no time or money left to be able to travel. I figured we would be stopping a few miles down the road in Twin Falls and started daydreaming and envisioning myself going to Stanley, ID (kind of lame, I know), when suddenly Andrea was pointing and telling me in a surprisingly calm voice that I was missing the exit that my parents were getting off on. I yanked the wheel hard and we barely made it onto the exit without going into the grass in between the exit and interstate. My parents had decided that we should go to Shoshone Falls! The waterfalls were really beautiful. It was a really hot day though, so we didn't spend a lot of time there. After that we ate dinner in Twin Falls at Golden Corral. Got home late that evening, unpacked, and collapsed into bed.

Red Mountain was great! It was so good to catch up with family and see everybody. Highlights for me were the salad lunch, cajun night, the variety show (especially G and G's skit), crown kebob cookoff, hiking (the one), ragball, and well, I guess I had a lot of highlights. :)

Frances, Frank? Come in Frank! For the BBC, I'm Charles Bluewater. Good Night.

P.S. Andrea told me about a class she's taken where she's been learning how to tell if someone is a wholistic thinker or sequential thinker. So we had a lot of fun with the tests to figure out what category we fell best under. Now that I'm looking at the blog I've just written, maybe I'm a backwardly sequential thinker? Is there such a thing? What are you?