AMAZING

yeah i think that's a pretty good way to describe this weekend. although i had to get up like super early on saturday (we're talking 4:45 am here!), it was well worth it. i think i'm even more excited for camp to start now that i have met a few more of the staff members. they're all so great. i don't think that i have ever been with a group of new people, that i have felt so instantly accepted. that was a very delightful surprise. i was also delightfully surprised to discover that the challenge course at PVM was very nearly identical to the one at michindoh. it was nice to already have a leg up on the training. i was also trained on the zip line. i think that may have possibly been the most frightening thing that i have ever done. i am absolutely horrified of heights. but thanks to matt, i was guilted into going down. all i can say is that once is more than enough. i was so scared that i almost cried when they tried to convince me to go down. and when it was all over with, i almost threw up. i just don't see the thrill. i guess i'm a different sort of adrenaline junky. you know. the kind that gets really excited when the new sedaris book comes out. yeah sad i know. but at least i don't die that way.

i was completely exhausted after spending 7 hours outside in the freezing southwest ohio air, so i went to bed at 10:30 last night, and didn't wake up until 1:30 today. i think that it would have been more amazing if i had actually slept the entire time...that would have been amazing.

speaking of amazing. i got to talk to all of my family on the phone today. that was a delightful surprise. i'm so happy that my grandparents are recovering well, and they'll be coming home next saturday...and grandpa got up out of his bed and walked to wheel chair with only the aid of a walker! he hasn't done that in a really long time! amazing! cory called me today too. he said that he and carry would be coming by huntington on their way out to vegas, and wanted to visit. too bad i'm going to be home for spring break when they leave. but cory said that we might be able to meet in toledo for dinner before they leave...that would be fantastic cause i haven't seen that stinkin kid since christmas, and if he moves to vegas i'll never get to see him. that and i'd kind of like to meet carry.

i think the most exciting news of the weekend came when i talked to dad on the phone. he told that for my birthday (in september) he was going to buy me a plane ticket to vegas so i could see cory and carry!!! i'm so excited about that. that is perhaps the best birthday present that i could ever think of. that of course led to another phone call to cory to tell him...he was really excited too. so at some point in time around my 22 birthday i'm going to go to vegas for three or four days. i get to miss like three days of class...maybe gamble a little...see a show or two...and of course visit with my brother. what an amazing weekend.