july+16-22

I started my week with work monday morning at 10am. I've probably said it before but opening is the worst! After work I picked up my sister and we went to play in a soccer game together. The minute we got there, it started pouring rain. I enjoyed the rain though because it was the start of "monsoon season" in New Mexico. The next day I went to summer camp with my sisters. They go to a tennis camp during the week and they had a day that parents were invited to watch the tournament and play games. I went because my mom couldn't make it. I swam with them and watched my sisters play tennis. They were both so happy to have me there. Later I went with Lili and a soccer coach for a practice. We stayed playing there for over three hours. Safe to say I was exhausted wednesday.

Tuesday night, my step dad came home from New York where he had been tattooing. He brought presents for everyone. The next day he got me out of work and we took a trip to Ojo Caliente together. Ojo is a spa with natural hotsprings and mineral pools. They also have a mud bath that you sit in the sun and bake yourself in the mud. It was a nice relaxing day. Thursday night I worked again from 10-4 and then played soccer again with my sister until 8. When I finally got home that night my step dad wanted to go to the midnight premiere of Batman.

Finally around 11 we left for the movie. We met very interesting people while we waited in line to get in. It was a son taking his father to see the movie. The dad was an absolute Batman nut. He used to dress up as Batman in college and ride a motorcycle around the campus. They owned a printing shop in Santa Fe.

The movie was very good but completely overwhelming. There was so much going on at once. I finally got home around 4am. The next morning I was up at 7 to go to Taos for a doctors appointment and see my friends. The fiestas were going on. The fiestas aren't really a party like they sound. Its more like a bunch of vendors set up and people getting drunk in the plaza. Everyone in the town goes. Later that day I met up with my friend and we went to see another friend. We made cookies that night.

The next night I went to the river. We spent all day jumping off the bridges. When we got there, a car commercial was being shot for a mercedes so we had to keep ducking down when they would take a shot. I went to dinner for my friends birthday and later to roller derby. I spent the night with Jennifer and the next day we went to the fiestas. Later I drove back to Santa Fe with my mom.