I am back home again finally. My dad and I left Wednesday morning about 6AM Eastern Time, and arrived at my Grandmother's house in Shenandoah, Iowa at about 4PM Central time. We made pretty good time for driving about 700 miles. Then we left Grandma's house about 7AM Central time and arrived at my house at about 3PM Mountain time.

We had sushi for dinner, ahhh lovely lovely sushi. So yummy....but so expensive. Then on Friday my dad toured Hardy Starts, which is off 10th and Colorado I believe. After that, I drove him to my school, and then we saw where he used to work, which is off Isabelle road, and now looks like a dump. Then we drove up to Estes Park, had lunch there at the Local's Cafe. It was very good. Then drove back home through Loveland and ya. After that we had dinner and then went to the concert at Broomfield Commons, and saw the fireworks, which was a ton of fun. Yesterday, my mom and I drove my dad to the airport, then came home. I mostly slept the day away I was so tired...Today I unpacked and mowed the back yard.

A funny story though...while I was at my dad's we went canoing with my uncle, aunt, and their two kids. It was me and my dad, my uncle and stephanie, and my aunt and Ian. It was a 13 mile canoe trip. Before the 1/4 mark, my aunt and Ian managed to flip their canoe THREE times! Ian was kinda helpless...on the third time, while trying to stop to help them, my dad and I managed to hit a tree, which swept my dad out of the canoe, leaving me stuck in the canoe in the tree. Ian was holding on to my canoe, while my dad had hold of the other one. He managed to get to the bank with that canoe. I persuaded Ian to move along the tree to the bank to try to help his mom, as she was stuck like ten yards upriver. Now my canoe was at an angle in the tree, and was starting to slowly fill with water. I tried to push out, but it didn't work, so I had to get out while keeping hold of the canoe. I managed to keep a good hold on it, and started walking toward the bank where my dad was. When I was almost there, my foot gets stuck and I lose my shoe. I think it either was swept downstream or is still stuck in that spot. So now I have no sandals...dammit. Anyways, we finally managed to get everyone there, and instead of using three canoes, we pushed one up high on the bank and had three to a canoe. The rest of the trip was quiet. Though we had a bag in our canoe that had towels, my shirt, and my dad's wallet and phone. I don't know why he brought his phone with him...and it turned out to be a bad idea...he managed to drown his phone...haha.

So after today, I am not allowed to read ANYTHING apparently until I finish reading Crime and Punishment and Wuthering Heights...and my mom said I have to be done with the project that involves both of the books by Registration...which is August 5th. Ugh...I know, I chose this class...but still...oh well...Wuthering Heights shouldn't be bad...it's Crime and Punishment that's the problem...I've already started reading it, and it's hard to get into. It's so detail oriented, plus the grammar in it is kinda weird...and some of it is just plain wrong...I'm guessing it happened when they translated it...so anyways...there's my update on my life.