(Thanks, 'Shlee, for taking pictures!)
Said horseflies have been TERRIBLE this year...both the horses have had bloody marks where they've been bitten. >.<
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On the last day we took the horses for a ride and walked around town. I hadn't ridden either of them for almost a week...I was beginning to suffer withdrawals. XD (Thanks, 'Shlee, for taking pictures!) Violet: "That's trippy, man..." It looks like we were stopping to regroup here, but in actuality Will was trying to kill a horsefly. Said horseflies have been TERRIBLE this year...both the horses have had bloody marks where they've been bitten. >.< Why do I have such cute friends? XD Thus ends the Illinois side of the Texan invasion. The NEXT week I went down to visit them...and there's a ton of pictures to go through there as well. XD
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We even packed a picnic lunch this time. (It was Will's idea, can you believe that?) This is my "Ooh! Aah! IT'S COLD!!" reaction. Let me tell you, the water coming out of that waterfall/spring/thing is FREEZING. Whee, cliff-jumping! I think Christa did a flip off of there...let me check. Oh, yes, here she is: It looks like she's about to do a rather nasty back-flop, but in actuality she was in the middle of the flip. She managed to hit the water feet-first. Thus ends another successful outing--and we didn't get lost on a golf course this time.
Your hostess, The Fox Due to the insanity of the past two weeks, this is being updated nearly a week and a half after it actually happened. And since I came home from Texas yesterday, I'm still running on adrenaline and something around 6 hours of sleep, so forgive me if I forget some details. In fact, I may not even comment on the pictures from here out--there's not that much to comment upon, really--so maybe I can get the rest of the Texas Invasion series up in a couple of days and down-shift to a relative sense of normality. Ahhh... To put it concisely, we went to the mall and had an absolute blast trying on dresses. Unbeknownst to us when we first entered the mall, everyone was having clearance sales. *headdesk* Hence, I now have two ball-room-type dresses and a summer dress for under $50, and I'm still wondering what the heck I'm going to wear them at. Sigh. They're awful purty dresses, though... I actually wore this dress to Christa's graduation party...it was very staticky, as I found out when I sat next to a balloon. XD (It decided to travel with me for the next ten minutes. Hilarity ensued.) May I say that this little hat was completely and totally adorable? (The subject is awful pretty too. XD) Aaand at the hibachi grill! This was my third time at the restaurant, but the first time I'd sat at the grill. And this was 'Shlee and Christa's first ever visit to a Japanese restaurant. I'm starting to drool just thinking about the place...help... Now this guy was great...the cooks are trained to be entertaining as well as make the meal, so he juggled his knives and spatulas and tossed bits of scrambled egg in our mouths (Christa missed four times. It was hysterical. XD) and juggled a raw egg and generally was highly entertaining. And we must never forget the 'Japanese Dr. Pepper' (soy sauce) or the 'sexy sauce' (some kind of a sweet dip). It's making me drool again. Help... Oh yes, oil and fire, a great combination. XD Help me, Rhonda, I'm starting to revert to Pioneer Woman sayings. But it was gooooood, man. 'Shlee ordered a bento box, but we won't hold that against her. XD *sigh* Yes, I did leave my truck in this abhorrent state of parking for well over an hour. I shall go crawl in a hole and die now.
Tune in next time for another visit to Wildcat Springs with pictures to prove it...until then, I shall always remain, Your hostess, The Fox The day: Thursday. The place: Wildcat Springs. The people: me, 'Shlee, Christa, and Zachary. The reason: Because we could. Okay, okay, so we went to Wildcat Springs because 'Shlee and Christa don't have anything like this down in Texas. (Seriously, they don't. It's all flat plains and sky. Not that that's bad...but it's certainly not Illinois XD.) This was interesting--apparently the cliff had fallen over and slid into the creek. Ahh, yes, the swimming area...this was about 1/8 of a mile of hiking/wading along the creek bed. The water is about 9-10 feet deep, warm, and clear (I mean, until we muddied it up by walking around, of course). By the way: 'Shlee was taking this picture, and the other person in the picture here is Zach. He pops up in a lot of these pictures. XD Ohh, yes. The cliff. Last time Will and I came here he jumped off of this cliff, into the water. So I decided that I was going to jump off the cliff too. About this time I remembered that I'm not fond of heights. Well, I don't mind heights as a rule. I can climb trees, look down from major heights without feeling too dizzy, etc. It's just jumping off into the open space that's a bit of a problem. So after whimpering and looking down for a while, and letting the others jump first, and whimpering a bit more, Christa did a count-down and I jumped. After the initial shock it wasn't THAT bad...there's a moment of suspension, where the stomach feels left behind, right before striking the water. But in all honesty it was a BLAST. So much of a blast, in fact, that I jumped a second time. XD Zach's job, as a lifeguard (that's his part-time job), was to make sure that we didn't kill ourselves on the way down. And do photobombs. Zach is the master of photo bombing. It has become a game while looking over pictures to find which ones Zach randomly appears in and what kind of crazy face he's making. (...we love you, Zach, really we do...) Random log time! At the end of the lake was this covered bridge--actually part of a golf course, as we found out the second day we walked there--and it was so nifty that we posed and took some pictures on it. (Also: nifty dragonfly bug thingy is nifty.) Please ignore my stunning tan line. Thank you. At this point we headed off across the golf course and spent the better part of a half-hour meandering around. Aaand at this point Christa and I went sprinting down the golf course. *facepalm* We were exuberant, what can I say? Yes, Christa went rolling down the hill. Do not ask why--it was a random moment. JAPANESE BEETLE!! So after Wildcat Springs we went home, bringing Zach along, for some much-needed showers, supper, and a movie. Said movie was 'V for Vendetta'...I had never seen it before, so it was quite an eye-opener. (I tried writing a review after watching it, but my thoughts upon the story were so confuzzled that another viewing is necessary before figuring out how exactly to review it.) As you can tell from our expressions (minus that of Christa--she has a seemingly limitless supply of energy and general glee) we were pretty brain-fried. The fact that it was almost midnight didn't help either. I'm not sure whose idea this was...but the camera timer was involved. Zach may be the master of photo bombing, but Christa is the mistress of funny faces. XD So yes. All in all a most satisfying day, yeilding a huge amount of pictures, sore muscles, and dead-tiredness. (The good kind of tired, that is.) Tune in next time for day 4 of the Texan Invasion...
Your hostess, The Fox So after meeting at the airport we started the 3-hour drive back home, stopping en route at Denny's for lunch. Have I mentioned that I love Denny's? We hardly ever go there, but when we do I LOVE it. Gah. IT'S A WORM! A straw-wrapper worm, to be precise. Scrunch the paper wrapped together and drop water on it, and there ya go. It's hilarious. ...we got a little carried away here... ^^; At Denny's there was this claw-machine--the type that has cheap toys and stuff in it--and 'Shlee, in an unprecedented stroke of luck, actually managed to defeat the fiendish device. Usually the darned things can't/won't pick a toy up...or at least, I've never gotten anything from one. But 'Shlee won a minion from 'Despicable Me'. XD I shall have to get pictures...but his name is Howard and he's pretty darned cute for looking like a yellow Tylenol pill. Finally made it home, and at 3:30 we all trekked down to the gym (after exploring the yard and complaining about how hot it was, that is.) (A note on the heat: our A/C had broken the day before they arrived, and it was HOT when we got back. So going to the gym was the best thing we could do in order to stay cool. The A/C has since been fixed, but the first two days were pretty sticky.) 'Shlee's hair is so cute--she twirls the end of it around her finger, and it creates a perfect curl. It's so adorable. XD Weight-sharing time... Now THIS was pretty awesome. I think it's called a 'tower'--and I only stayed up there by pure willpower, because I was wobbling like a drunk person.
The excitement really started on the second day...it involves Wildcat Springs, jumping off of cliffs, and the taking of many, many pictures. :D Your hostess, The Fox Wednesday Mom and I drove to the airport. Our reason for doing so was to help the Texans infiltrate Illinois. I am pleased to say that it was a complete and total success. Preparing for impact... The leg pop was a nice effect. Is it bad that the first thing I said to Christa was 'Wow--you're short!'? While Christa and I practiced our cheerleading, poor Ashlee was battling her way through the crowd to join us. The Shlee has been spotted!! *glomp* Thus began the Texan invasion...tune in next time to see our continuing adventures! The gym is involved, along with Wildcat Springs, movies, friends, dancing, and WEIRD QUOTES!!
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