Goin' Home Today!!

Yup, I'm finally going home today, after 9 days. I'm excited. I've had a lot of fun here in Florida, but i'm ready to go home. I'm ready to see my family, and REALLY excited to see my animals :) I haven't pet an animal in like 7 or 8 days, and that was just one pet of a fat cat at a resteraunt..

:( I can't go too long without petting an animal, lol. And this is too long for me. LOL! R's older brother, Z just tripped over something in the bathroom, and slammed into the bathroom door which burst open. lol it scared me. He fell on the ground, got up, said "good morning". lol

Anyways, mine and Luke's flight leaves at 4:30pm, and we fly to.. i don't remember where. Then we get on another plane and fly home :)

Friday we all went to Epcot in Disney World, but I really don't feel like posting about that really... But I'll tell you what I bought:

1. A little plastic kitty bowl for my kitten. On the side, it has a bunch of different Disney cat characters.
2. A beer mug from Germany (NOT for beer!!!!). btw, Epcot has like 11 different "countries" you can visit and Germany was one. That was my fav country.
3. 2 peices of chocolate from Germany
4. A bag of candy from Norway for Adam back home
5. A friendship bracelet in Mexico (rachel got one too)
6. A shot glass with leather around it in Mexico for adam.
7. little wooden duck for my grandparents in China
8. 2 tiny peices of chocoalte in Italy

Is that all? I thought I bought more... hmm i guess not. Well I got to get ready, eat breakfast and whatever else, so I'll post later. ttyl

Until next time, my friends!

Last Day in Utah

Howdy guys and gals!

'sup? Sorry I never posted about my last day in Utah. IDK why I didn't. So I'll do it now:



Dear Journal, 2-28-08



We're in a teeny plane right now about to take off. Well, there was 15 planes, but 6 have already taken off. *sigh*.

Yesterday, we went Horse back riding sort of in the mountains! It was an hour ride. Original price was $55 PER person! So we weren't going to do it, but the lady called back and said they'd do it for 45 bucks per person. So we did it!

I rode a really pretty palomino/white paint LOOKING Quarter Horse, named Willie, after Willie Nelson. Dad rode a black Quarter Horse (all the horses were Quarter Horse) named Grace. Adam rode a chestnut -- Graham. Luke - a red chestnut - Howard. And mom rode a brown and white paint looking Quarter Horse named Bandy. We had a pretty view riding up the mountain. The guide had the most beautiful Horse out of the horses we rode. He was a Grulla!! A rare color, that's really pretty.

After that, we went shopping in some stores in the town. Me and mom went into a pet store that sold only pet accessories/treats. When we first walked in, we saw a HUGE black dog sleeping on the floor. We thought he was a really big stuffed animal Dog, until we saw him blink. The owner of the dog and store said he was a New Foundland Dog. She said she had THREE Newfoundlands!! Two were there at the store, and one was on a walk. I LOVED those Dogs. I sat on the floor and snuggled one. It was the kind of Dog I've always really wanted. A HUGE friendly, and really FLUFFY Dog. They make a good pillow/stuffed animal!! I got for free dog treats at that store I'm gonna give to Amy and Ranger. :)

We went into another store, and me, Luke, and Adam bought mammaw and Poppa a wooden sign that said, 'We're not retired, we're tired.'

After we finished lookin' at the stores, we drove around and looked at the mountains. We even got to touch some 'slushy snow'! There was quite a bit of snow, but it wasn't cold outside.

TODAY:

We got up, got our stuff together, and listened to music before time to go. Then we drove to g-ma and g-pa's work. We said good-bye to g-ma, and g-pa took my family and I to the airport.

We got some food, and ate while waiting for our flight. The plane we got on was a new plane, and had almost half the plane empty!! Adam had 3 seats to himself. Then mom moved back to him, and I had 3 seats to myself, so I laid down, but I couldn't go to sleep.

In the air-port, I bought a doodle book thingy, a quiz book, and a mad lib book. I wanted a magazine all about the Jonas Brothers, but mom wouldn't let me buy it. :(

Then I called Zaina, and we talked until I got on the plane, and I had to turn off the phone.

It took forever to take off, cause there was like 15 planes ahead of us, then the plane coming in for a landing had some kind of an emergency, and a lot of fire trucks, police, and ambulances came, and that delayed us even more. So we took of almost the same time we were supposed to be in the airport in the city where I live!!

Well, I guess that's all of this trip, so TTYL!

-Sarah

Utah Trip Day 2

Dear Journal,

9:35am- Sry I didn't write anymore yesterday, I didn't feel like it although I had plenty of time.

We are sitting a the table eating eggs, bacon, and rolls with grandma and grandpa.

FILL IN OF YESTERDAY WHEN I DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING

When we got off the plane in Houston Texas, we went to a restaurant (in the airport of course) to eat dinner. I didn't want anything there, so daddy took me next door to Papa Jon's (sp?) and got me a big slice of pizza, and went back to the other restaurant. We stayed in there a while, cause it took a long time to get everyone else's food. Then we went to this awesome Indian like store, that was really cool. There was a really pretty penny bracelet, and some other pretty stuff. I was trying to find some cool Wolf stuff, but I didn't get anything. But when we go back when we go back home, I want to buy this really relaxing CD they had there. They had a Wolf CD, but they had a person singing, and I didn't like it. LOL.

Then we had to leave :(. We waited for a little bit before our plane was ready to leave. While we were waiting, dad was sitting by a U.S. Army guy! IDK why I think those guys are so cool, I just do. I told dad to ask him if he was going home, and he was!! He would be going home for a month, then I guess leaving again. I wish he could stay home for longer than a month... Then a few minutes later, I saw 2 more Army guys walk by, then a little later, I saw another one walk by. :) I hope their all going home to their families.

Then we boarded the plane. We were all separated, each sitting in between two people. There was a Chinese or Japanese or some foreign woman sitting on my left who listened to her ipod and slept for half the time. On my right, was a guy that looked like he belonged in the army. He was bald, muscular, and probably in his late 20's. He listened to his ipod some. But then he watched the movie they played on the plane. It was called 'Sabrina'. It was kind of a weird movie. Love movie. Weird love movie. Harrison Ford starred in it.

Anywhoo... The plane ride was about 2 hours and 15 minutes, but seemed much longer. That might be because it took a while before we took off. There was a lot of planes in front of us. It was late, I was tired, and it wasn't a good place to sleep at, lol. FINALLY it ended, but we had to wait for our luggage. *groan* While we were waiting, there was this Portoricion (sp?) guy that was walking around with the most SILLIEST, DUMBEST, most CONFUSED face EVER in the history of silliest, dumbest, confused faces. It was SOOO funny!! I laughed so hard, which luckily woke me up. And Luke was pretending to be him by saying, "Where am I? This isn't Portorico (sp?)!!"

Then we say a monk! Yes, a monk. He it was this short bald dude, with an orange sheet wrapped around him. LOL. We've seen some STRAAANGE people!!

Finally, we go our luggage, and went outside to wait for Grandpa. It was cold, and I was wearing shorts. Finally Grandpa got there, and we rode to his apartment. I laid down on the couch and almost fell asleep. Then they made me move into the room that mom and dad were sleeping in (in grandma and grandpa's bed). I was going to sleep on the floor, Grandma on the couch, Grandpa on his recliner, and Luke and Adam on an air mattress in the living room.

Now, about TODAY:

After breakfast, we went to this cool building in a tour (just us and our guide). Our guide was fun. On top of the building was lots of trees and grass and pants and a water fall! It was so cool!!! It had cool views of the city and the mountains. I took a lot of pictures (that I will post on here when I get home). While were on top, we saw a man on another building washing windows, and I took a picture lol. And either dad or grandpa (can't remember) waved at him. lol.

After that, we went to the Church Office Building, that had 26 stories!! We went to the 26th one, and went out onto the roof, which had an AWESOME view of the city, and the mountains, and the Mormon temple (my grandparents are Mormons, while my family and I are Assembly of God). We got to see all the cars driving by, it was really cool. One vehicle had a raft (for whitewater rafting) on their roof.

Then we came here to a food court, and we ate. Now we're going...somewhere.

Write Lata!!

Back! OK, we went into a building, and watched a Mormon movie called "Joseph Smith", then

we walked home to here where I am now. TTYL!!

Luv,
Sarah the Equine and Canine luvr

Utah Trip Day 1

So you all know (I think..) that I am now in Salt Lake City, Utah visiting my grandpa and grandma (step, but we still call her grandma). I'm going to write about the first day as I wrote it in my journal:

Dear Journal,

12:33pm - Our whole family is in the van right now at the church that Luke does German Classes at.
After his classes, we will go to the airport, and fly to Salt Lake City, Utah to visit my Grandparents who are on a year long mission trip!! It'll be my first time in Utah. :)
I'm listening to the song 'The one I'm waiting for' (by Reliant K) on Adam's Mp-3 player.
Yum Yum! I'm eating a sub sandwhich. And an Apple slice, and oo! Adam gave me an Oreo cookie!!
12:55pm- Well, I guess I'll write lata.

3:54pm- We've been sitting in the airport for about 30-45 minutes. The plan LEAVES at 4:26pm. *sigh* Mom bought me a $4.00 Disney Magazine in the gift shop. :) Mostly the Jonas Brothers are in it. :D I'm gonna read it on the plane. It's hard not reading it right now.

Me and mom read Horse Illistrated magazines to keep us busy for a while. She read an article about Cushings diesese, and I read about mounted games. I want to do mounted games now!!! Well, I'm gonna go in the gift shope, so ttyl! -4:07pm

4:45pm- We're on the plane taking off RIGHT NOW. Well, taxing off anyway. This is a TINY SQUASHED plane, and a really annoying sound is happenin. The sound stopped. We're just about to take off! We ain't moving at al right now. *sigh* *rolls eyes*. We're waiting in line for the other planes to take off.

few minutes later- We're in the air, and the clouds are BEAUTIFUL!! (I'll post pictures later)

about 5:00pm- I'm gonna read my magazinenow. TTYL!!

-Sarah

Luv,
Sarah the Equine and Canine luvr