Summer fun is here. I plan on going to Denver and Portland this summer. It is going to be amazing. I wish I could make it to Canada with a few of my friends but that is not going to happen. So far since school has been out I have been somewhat busy, while having fun.
I went to see Star Trek with Taylor and Ashley, which I will write a review about. Possibly!
I went to the small town that I grew-up in over this passed weekend for their Armed Forces Day Celebration. This would be Hawthorne, Nev. This town is located in the Nevada Desert. It is 134 miles away from Reno and 304 miles away from Las Vegas. The celebration was very nice. We went to the parade, which had multiple gaps. A couple things disgusted myself in the parade. Governor Jim Gibbons was in it, along with Congressman Dean Heller. Neither of them are even remotely close to being my favorite republicans. In fact they both are at the same level of former President George W. Bush. The parade also only had the Republican Party in it. Which was disturbing, The theme of the entire celebration was typical "Freedom isn't Free" The theme slightly disgusted me as well, partially because I just watched the documentary "Why We Fight." This movie is based on explaining why Americans fight and most people say we fight to keep our freedom but I do not think it is an accurate interpretation of why Americans fight. This movie is highly recommended. Anyway back to my trip to Hawthorne. We then went to Lyons park and talked to childhood friends and old family friends. Many people were barbecuing and many bought indian tacos. We then went up to Lucky Boy. Which is the ranching district of this town. We had a big bbq with one of our long-time family friends. We ate and watched her turtles in her pond. Once it got dark you could see every single star in the sky. It was amazingly beautiful. I then headed back to town and went and sat a bar where I talked to my childhood friends. We just hung out. They had a few drinks, I didn't drink at all because I had to drive back to Lucky Boy. We reminisced about elementary school and Junior High (I moved to my hometown of Sparks during middle school). Once I got back to Lucky Boy I laid on the porch and star gazed for about on hour before going to bed.
Sunday morning we went to the church that my father used to be the Lay Pastor at, Community Presbyterian Church. All of the the church folks were shocked to see how old I was. They could not believe that I just finished my Junior year at the University. We then headed home. We ended up stopping in Fallon Nev. to visit another family friend. This family friend's husband is on his death bed, dying from cancer. He only has a few days left so it was a pretty rough visit. This would be his second battle of two different cancers. The first being a Lymphoma cancer. After the visit we finally made it back to Reno.
Yesterday I went out with Niki, whom I haven't actually spent a lot of time with lately. We went to the Melting Pot for the first time which was very tasty. We then went to Seven Teahouse and played a couple games of Egyptian Rat Screw. Next we went to the movies and saw "Angels and Demons" which was phenomenal and I may possibly write a Movie review about it as well. Other than all of that business for the beginning of Summer Vacation it is time to strap down and study for my LSAT and my German Vocab words. It shall be a fun filled summer.
Turning 21, Denver, Summer School and Portland! I can not wait for this summer's adventures.
