Date 3: Plan C

Well this Friday made up for the rest of the lousy week.

After trying all week to find a who was free Friday between 4 and 10, I finally found one Thursday night while I was at Joel's house watching the BYU/TCU game. Her name is Alana Brown, and I guess the only place I really knew her from was the Emmet dances. Anyway, right after school on Friday I drove over to Emmet High School and picked her up and then drove back to Horseshoe Bend chapel. Without the radio on. Crazy, I know, but I was pleasantly surprised when we didn't run out of stuff to talk about. Anyways, once we got to the church, we (Michelle, Zack G., his date, Joel, Melanie, Brother Moses, Alana and I (Jake and Josh showed up later)) all piled into the s' cars and drove up through the gorgeous and untamed Idaho wilderness to the Moses' ranch in Dry Buck. Its a really cool little place, its got a little house, barn, couple of sheds and this little playground that Melanie and our dates played on while Joel built his "man" fire, Brother Moses looked for the other horses and Zack and I played cowboys. For a couple of city boys, I think we did pretty good; we managed to get seven horses tied up and saddled without getting our brains bucked out and, contrary to what you might've heard, Brother Moses didn't have to fix every saddle that I'd done. Also contrary to what you might've heard, Zack and I were the first to volunteer to double with our dates when there weren't enough horses.
Anyway, after we'd saddled them and Melanie had given those who needed it a brief horse-handling lesson, the nine of us on the seven horses and Josh Black on the four wheeler set out for a sweet ride around the Moses ranch and then back to Joel's "man" fire for hotdogs and smores. A little cold, but otherwise very awesome. After that, Alana and I rode with Joel and Melanie back down to the church, and then I took her home, talked with her parents a little, said goodnight and then somehow managed to get from Letha to our subdivision without getting lost. So awesome. Easily the most fun I've had this month. I guess third time's a charm, huh?

Rite of Passage - SO HOT!

Derek went to Provo to hang out with his buddy, film a movie, attend an awesome BYU game and drive home with us (Austin, Heather and Luke). On the way home, we stopped at Costa Vida (a rip off of Cafe Rio) to get food to start our fast. Derek had never been there, of course, and didn't want a delicious salad like Heather was having (he doesn't like lettuce...hmm) so he got what Austin was having - a smothered Pork burrito with medium sauce. Everything would have been fine but Derek is more of a...mild sauce person. He wasn't quite ready to handle the spiciness of the medium sauce. His face turned bright red, his eyes were tearing up, he drank 5 glasses of water and couldn't finish the burrito. He kept putting the water straw on his lips to cool them down because they were burning! It was pretty funny. I'm sure a few years down the road he'll be ordering the spiciest thing on the menu and it won't faze him at all. This was merely a rite of passage for our little Derek. He handled it pretty well, although some tears were shed.