why cant every weekend be a holiday?!

memorial weekend was absolutely amazing! i hung out with some of my best friends and we had so many amazing times and memories filled with smiles and laughter. i just wish that all of the oups was able to attend!

i have not finished editing all of my photos so i will share a few from the days we were on the river. i have also not developed my waterproof camera. i am a bit nervous that i may have ripped the film while getting too excited about winding it for another photo. i am really excited to see how they came out and will be very sad if i accidentally destroyed them. we will have to wait and see!

here is a list of some of the fun times:

1. clarence reminding everyone about "would you like to come to my apartment?!" (picture it being said in many ridiculous accents and intensities).

2a. tracy finding a river boyfriend.

2b. her sweetly punching him in the chest and causing his glasses to fall into the river (he earlier claimed that it is impossible to wear contacts in the river. i bet he has changed his opinion about that one).

2c. he may have been lying about his age. i still think he probably was.

3. standing on the tubes (or toobs if you prefer) and dancing.

4. sharing clarence and jeff's huge water bottle of jack and coke.

5. handsome over using the phrase "what's your clearance clarence?!" when asking for a beer.

6. brad and i getting "beached" on rocks during the rapids.

7. cleaning handsome's toes.

8a. brad getting lost for 5 hours and randomly showing up at the house.

8b. alisha and i walked up the river looking for him and had no luck.

8c. i am still confused about how he fell asleep when i saw him about 10 minutes before he was lost laughing and falling over a tree stump.

8d. a kind "mother" helped him find his way.

9. the nauseating ride back to the house in the back of the truck.

10. getting back to the house and falling asleep on the slab with tracy.

11. waking up revitalized for an adventure at the eli young concert and to enjoy the most delicious jalapeno dip made by handsome's cousin.

12. my first eli young concert! i had never heard any of his songs before, but i had so much fun dancing to the music. i also made the mistake of forgetting to wear deodorant. lets just say it was the smelliest moment of my life haha. oh well, sometimes that happens i guess!

handsome, alisha, my sister and i floated the river again on sunday. it was much more calm the second time. still fun, but in a different way. both floating trips seemed to fly by. one thing i would say about saturday is that there were way less annoying people floating. it was also not as crowded as sunday. i really hope we will all be able to go again next year.

love.