idaho actually holds entertainment...surprising

yesterday i went to lava hot springs, ID (i thought the city was just called lava. why does it have to be so complicated?) everyone but me went floating down the whatever river flows through lava. i feel like i have to say that for physical therapy cuz they said i wasn't allowed to do anything like that yet. it sucks big time gettin hurt so close to the summer that it limits what i can and cant do.

as for the trip up there, i guess it would be, it was loads of fun even though i was really limited. my trip consisted of laying out at the actual hot springs, carefully climbing some rocks with alice near a pipe from the hot springs that dumps into the river (it was 107 degrees. super hot) and laid out near the stairs that everyone exited the river to go back to the top. at the very end, leeann stopped and i asked her if she would help me float in the river. i felt like a little kid again who didnt know how to swim or at least survive in water. she held my tube while i just sat in it in the calm part of the river. at first i didnt want to get wet, not even a little on my but from sittin in the tube. but thanks to good ol' dustin's surprise attack splash my plan of not gettin wet was shot to heck. the river water was super cold like an ice bath. that was the extent of my floating experience.

at 5 everyone had to turn in the tubes, so they did. someone in the group wanted to get ice cream and since it was the official band wagon day, we got ice cream. we hung out on the curb outside the shop and talked until everyone finished their ice cream. during that time there was an obviously drunk dude that walked by and then about 10/15 minutes latter he some how managed to drive his motorcycle and parked it right in front of us.

i guess (according to tj) the dude said that i needed to get some help. im assuming since i was on crutches walking around with my knee brace on. well duh Sherlock!!! to be honest the reason why it didnt bother me is cuz 1) i didnt hear it 2)he was drunk and 3)it was obvious. i would of just laughed it off and/or said somethin back. as for the ride back we listened to more of my ipod and played the 'i spy' game. we started with stupidly obvious things and eventually advanced to almost abstract stuff.

as we neared logan all of us started to get hungry. no one could agree on a place to eat. we eventually agreed to disagree on the bluebird. lydia came up with the idea and coincidentally she couldnt make it.



as for today, it was a day of rest. no...i did not go to church. i laid around with pay and tried as hard as we could not to move without the burns getttin irritated from the rubbing. but we had to get ready eventually (6pm) cuz we were having dinner at a friends house. we agreed to have dinner and later learned about the missionary visit. we stayed for the experience and also it was just too close to the end of the dinner. the guy was super cute and from sweeden. he was an atheist converted mormon (why couldnt he have picked a different religion? wait...then we wouldnt have met him. oh well) it was kind of funny in the sense that the 2 non-mormons in the group one answered the questions right and the other had the closing prayer. it was definitely an interesting experience and there is a lot of pressure on you to agree to meet them again even if you werent interested to begin with. especially if there are so many eyes just waiting for you to agree to meet the missionary again and in the faaaarrrrrrrrr future get baptised. well it is something i can at least say i did in my life and as of now don't plan on doing again.