Yesterday was quite the bloggable day. It started with going to the Fair. It was actually a good day for the fair. It started out windy, but it kept it cool. I still managed to get a sunburn, thought. Anyway, Nathan and I went to the Fair with Jess and her kids, Jean (their foreign exchange student), and Carolyn. First stop was the animals, Whitney liked all parts except for the cows because Nathan made her scared that the cows might kick her. I know he was thinking he was being concerned, but poor girl was terrified of walking by the cows after that.
After that it was time for fair food. For those of you that don't know, the only reason to go to the fair is for the food. We had corn on the cob, scone nuggets, funnel cake, corn dogs, and burgers. Sadly, I didn't get any fried twinkies. I've yet to actually try them, but I really thought I'd try it this year. Unfortunately, I'm not a big fan of twinkies to begin with.
Anyway, we went to the different shops and all of the buildings with shops had a live infomercial for cookware. Also, at first I was excited thinking there was a shamwow, but it was a cheap imitation (the chamois). What a bummer.
While there, I ran into five students. They saw me in regular person clothes and acting like a human instead of a teacher...how embarrassing. They all smiled and said hi instead of running in the other direction. So that made me feel good. I even had one student get my attention and wave. Then of course my sister laughed at how he looked older than me. Not true, by the way. She was just being an annoying older sister.
Next on the bloggable day, the seven week break is over. For those who don't speak Rexburg, that means students are coming back. Now I know Nathan and I aren't permanents, but we feel enough of permanents to get annoyed with all the newbies (who for some reason can't figure out 4 way stops this year...not quite sure where that is coming from). We have also been around long enough to know to avoid Walmart, Albertsons, and Broulims from 3 days to the day before school starts. These stores area filled with single students and their mothers (or fathers) buying them things they don't have room for and hundreds of dollars of food (also something there isn't room for because their roomies's moms are doing the same thing).
Well, since neither of us in school we somehow lost track of the days and went to walmart last night. There were no less than 22 moms with their kids buying them storage supplies, pots, pans, dishes, things they could have packed, etc. Nathan and I have decided to make this a traditioin: go to Walmart and just sit near the checkouts and count the moms and the scared looking freshman. It really is more fun than it sounds.
It ended with Nathan and I watching my favorite show ever: Leverage, and eating chips and salsa. What a good day.
2 comments:
hooray for fair food... I have to work out for weeks to get rid of all the deep fat fried goodness I partook of!
Since Tiff hasn't posted a correction yet, I would like to note that I was not making fun of her for looking young, I was making fun of her for being seen by a student's parents wearing the culligan feather hat! There is a big difference.
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