july+30-aug+5

My step grandma owns a beauty salon and it's closed on Mondays so we took advantage and had ANOTHER beauty day. My sister got her hair cut and I got mine cut and died red. The next day we were looking good for the beach. We spent the majority of the day there and then went to a minor league baseball game because the Tampa Bay Rays were traveling while we were there. The game last over four hours! UGH. It was killing me. I can watch baseball but only for so long.

Wednesday we went to Busch Gardens. Its an amusement park in Florida if you haven't heard of it. Of course with our luck the first ride we get in line for, everything in the park closes because of lightening in the area. The same thing happened to us the year before. Luckily two and a half hours later when the rides opened again we were in front of the line. The whole rest of the time we were dealing with rides being shut down because of a storm even though it never rained. We got all the major roller coasters in but didn't have time to do much else.

Thursday was our last day and my sister and I did a little back to school shopping. We ordered pizza for dinner and went on a bike ride in the evening. We had to pack that night since we were leaving early Friday morning. Our flight was delayed over two hours back to New Mexico. It was extremely frustrating since we were also driving back to Taos that night. It's a two and half hour drive from the airport. We finally got to ABQ airport and had to drive to Taos. I had plans that night that got ruined because we didn't get in until 12am.

The next few days were extremely busy. We woke up at 6am to drive five hours to Denver, CO. We took two cars in order to take the whole family with us. We went to Elitch Gardens. Two amusement parks in three days, not bad, not bad at all. By the time we left that evening and got checked into the hotel everyone had dangerously low blood sugar. I was going to push everyone down the stairs. Luckily the bar in the hotel was open until 12 so we got fed. I had my five year old sister sleeping in my lap by the time the food came. The next morning we were leaving the hotel at 530am. I had to say most of my goodbyes the night before. It is always hard to leave someone who you care about but I knew I'd be seeing them again soon. My mom drove me to the airport the next morning for my flight to Seattle. Even though I was exhausted, I still hung out in downtown West Seattle and went to the gym that night. I knew if I stopped going I wouldn't be able to start again.