Just My Luck

Hey everyone!! I made it back to school in good 'ol Rexburg! And I thought I would share a story about what happened to me when I arrived at my apartment.

In the apartment I live in there are six bedrooms. Four of the bedrooms are corner rooms which are fairly large and then there are two smaller hall rooms. So, of course I was hoping to have a corner room, more specifically the room I had when I was here last fall. When I got to my apartment I noticed that the window of the room I was hoping to get had tons of lines on it. At first I thought it was just cracked but when I got closer I noticed that it wasn't in fact cracked but smashed!!!

I was horrified! Especially when I met up with one of my roommates and she told me that that was the only room left in the apartment. I went and talked to the manager and she told me that when they had been tearing out trees they had accidently smashed the window but that she had already called the maintenance and it would be taken care of before the week was over.

Well, it's been over a week now and my window still isn't fixed. Luckily they have placed a nice board over where the window used to be and it isn't too drafty. :D The manager isn't sure when it will be fixed because apparently the window had to be ordered and maintenance is really busy. To say the least this is not the kinda stress I wanted to deal with my first week back at school.

Here's a nice picture of my awesome, one of a kind window!

Hawaiian Highlights

Sorry it has taken me so long to blog about Hawaii! I had forgotten my camera cord in Rexburg and I didn't want to blog without including some pictures.

Hawaii was so awesome!! Our family had such an amazing time, especially since this is our first vacation with just our family. The plane trip was a little long for us, but well worth it! When we landed the wind was blowing really hard but that didn't keep us from smiling and commenting on how amazing it was there. All of our faces had smiles and we couldn't help but giggle.

Instead of blabbing about every event I will just highlight some of my favorite moments. One of those favorite moments would have to be snorkeling. It was so amazing how many fish you could see so close to shore. My sisters, dad and I all went out together and it was so fun pointing out new fish we hadn't seen before and seeing the looks of surprise and wonder. Sadly, mom wasn't able to join us since it was too cold for her liking. Hopefully next time!!

My other highlight would have to be surfing. It is so much fun!! All of us managed to stand up the first time and Alexis and Scram won the "Ultimate Surfer" award since they were definitely the best between us. My dad and I fell a couple times after the first but it was still so much fun! Our instructor was an awesome guy who used to be a professional surfer. He was very good at what he did and helped remind us that we were on "Hawaiian Time" when we started rushing the process.

My last highlight would have to be just chilling on the beach. When we were planning the trip we all decided that we didn't want a pressing schedule, and thought it would be better to just decide what we wanted to do the day of. So we were able to spend a lot of time as a family on the beach. It was fun playing in the water together or laying next to each other on the beach trying to get our tans (which, for the record, none of us achieved). The beauty and quiet relaxation was just what our family needed.