Rodeo

Dad and I went to the Cheney Rodeo today. It was so much fun. We saw the normal stuff of guys riding bucking bulls and broncos, cattle roping, steer wrestling and barrel racing. My favorite is barrel racing because I have practiced that with my friend with her horses. I'm a pretty decent rider. It was a good day.

Vacation

I'll tell you right now, the trip didn't go quite as planned but it was even better. Sorry it's so long.
On day one, we were going to go straight to Billings, Montana. That didn't happen. Instead we stopped in Fairmont and swam and Tuesday we went to Lewis and Clark Caverns which wasn't planned. Then we spent the night at Billings and when we woke up, we went to see the Battle of Little Big Horn or Custer's' Last Stand if you will. We then headed for Devil's Tower. Mind you the battle field and Devil's tower were also unscheduled. The Devil's Tower campground was cool because there was a community campfire and there were about eight families including us at the fire and all were from a different state. On the 21st, we went to see Devil's Tower and it was the first time ever I saw a live Prairie Dog and a whole colony at that! They are adorable!!

That Friday, Dad and I saw Mount Rushmore. It was neat but it was a lot smaller than I thought it would be. We also saw the ceremonial lighting of it that night. Custer National Forest was a bust. The animals were forced to stay in one area instead of roaming and there weren't many animals to begin with. Don't go there. Then Dad had this "Great" idea to see the Badlands right now instead of the next day. We took a long road instead of the road to the national park and we literally thought we would die of being cooked to death. It was 120F out side with little water with us, and no one else on the road if we broke down! There was no water or trees as far as the eye could see. I will never complain of 100 degree weather again!!!!! And Whatever you do, don't go to the Crazy Horse Memorial. I have never seen a place so racist against white people in my life. They are attempting to make a statue in the cliff like Rushmore with this Crazy Horse guy and after 57 years you still can't tell what it is except the destruction of a mountain because it is still barely started. I HATED that place.

We finished out trip in Yellowstone were I saw my first Raven and Ground Squirrel. We saw thousands of Bison, some Elk, a Black Bear, Pelicans, Swans, and more. It was pretty cool, but after all that walking in four days in Yellowstone, I was almost as tired as when I was filming transcontinental in Sprague. Almost.

Dad's Day

Today, Dad and I got ready for our two week trip. Yes we packed instead of doing father daughter stuff. We leave tomorrow to go on vacation to Yellowstone, Mt. Rushmore and more. We got everything ready so we can leave. See everyone in two weeks!

End of School

Yesterday was the last day of school. I'm officially a Senior! I should update everyone now. Two weeks ago for our senior play, it didn't turn out well. But we did learn that we are awesome together as actors when everything goes wrong. On opening night one of our main characters threw up so we had to pretend that she wasn't suppose to be in the play anymore. The rest of the show was completely improv but no one noticed. The next day we got someone else to play that character and one hour before the show started another really main character got into a car accident. So that play just wasn't meant to be. I was then in the school talent show so at least I got to preform once more dancing.

Cool Stuff

For my birthday I actually go a new laptop computer! It is so cool. And this weekend I had a rabbit show and my rabbit Harvey got three blue ribbons, two Best of Variety and one Best Opposite Sex ribbons. We then bought a doe Mini Rex Chinchilla so that later we can have baby Mini Rex! Her name is Jill. Since we are going to be expanding the size of our rabbitry we cleaned out and re leveled our animal shed so that once we do some repair work we will have room to put them. I love my bunnies and my new computer.

Big Weekend

This weekend was prom. I went with some friends and we did prom pictures, went to a great dinner, rode the riverfront park carousel and went to the dance. We had a good time. And I had a pretty good birthday yesterday as well.

My Headach

I have this English term paper I have to to write and have a rough draft due by May 9th and I have writer's block that is giving me a headache! I have a headache from other things as well. Like headphones! I just bought a new pair of Ipod headphones. Mind you they are my third pair because my first pair my rabbit chewed them, and the second pair was a terrible make shift set. So I went and bought a really nice pair of headphones, right. Well they got ruined by Purel Handsanitizer in the first 3 hours of owning them! I have no headphones now and I am so frustrated. And I only got my Ipod for my birthday last May 13. I haven't had even the Ipod its self for a year yet. I don't even have the packaging for the damaged headphones anymore so I probably can't take them back. Why ME! Oh well. At least I've been having a blast filming Transcontinental lately. :)