I Beg To Dream and Differ From the Hollow Rise

This is the timing of the rest of our lives! On Holiday. Friday I met with my ES and we had play practice.. I mainly did geometry throughout the play practice until my three line part came on when I'd rush in with my brothers. They throw a football, I run in and get them together and then say our few lines. The play practice was long and cute, but I was getting a headache when we went home.. Yesterday mom, Lex, Kate, Lily and I woke up at 6 AM and went to drop off Kate and Lil at grandma's. Then we drove to Sutter's Fort so mom could do training. We're going there to spend the night and do all the workshops and tons of educational things in February and my mom offered to be one of the helper parents so this was her training. She's going to help in the kitchen. Lex and I just stuck around doing nothing really.. I mean literally - she tried doing her biology but after about three seconds I realized I wasn't going to be able to focus and put my biology book away. I laid on my back on a wooden bench and... slept... In the middle of all the training chaos. Finally after a couple hours my back felt really bad and we left to go get lunch. They had offered lunch from Blimpie's at the training but mom wanted to get out and eat. So we did, we went around (got lost because we're really bad in Sacramento) and then just went to Blimpie's which was like across the street from Sutter's Fort. Wow. We sat parked on the side of the street eating and when we looked to our right some lady was standing in front of this church in a long leather jacket that went to her ankles with a grocery bag of something... And she was talking and pacing and waving her arms and staring at the sky... Then we saw some teenage guy launch himself off of this tree outside Sutter's Fort onto the ground and roll uphill before turning and running across the huge road's crosswalk. Mom suggested I ask if he was doing parkour. "But where is he?" I asked. We didn't know... So we went back into Sutter's Fort and mom went to the kitchen and Lex and I wandered around. We had an eeenteresting sisterly conversation and then we realized... We were in Sutter's Fort! People went there to check it out! It's a historical landmark! What had we been thinking?!?! We could explore! We went around to all the rooms and listened to the recordings about guns and John Sutter and the people who lived there. It was soo cool! And then we went to watch the blacksmith, he was making mini horse shoes for kids who visited. It was so so cool to watch and he just said "Come in! Come in!". So we did and we watched with some others, I loved it! He makes over 100 things. One man said "Blacksmithing is a lost art." "No it's not!" Replied the blacksmith, "I'm blacksmithing right now! That's the worst thing you could say to a blacksmith!" He continued to advise Alexis and I that if when we got married if a guy couldn't blacksmith we should consider our other options... LOL. Then we were going through these rooms reading all these things about John Sutter when my mom finnished her training and we had to go to the mall to meet for Hannah's birthday party. So we met up with her and then we all went into the mall. Twelve girls entered the mall, I saw us on the security monitor and it looked insane! I knew a few of the girls - Claire, Maddy, Sarah and Katherine. We went to the food court where it was announced that we were having a scavenger hunt in the mall. We split into two even teams of 6 from random choosing and were handed a bag that contained everything we needed. A whole bunch of clues, money for certain things we had to do and a pen. There were tons of things we had to do and we were assured they were embarrassing. And so they were! My team was Lexie, Claire, Sarah, a girl named Sydney, a girl named Julia and I. We RAN through the mall (and no one even stopped us lol!). We weaved in and out of people and ran up and down escalaltors. We went into the Vans store and took a picture of all of our left feet in our favorite shoes there. We realized why it was our LEFT foot when we got there and saw the wall full of RIGHT tennis shoes! And then a worker there took forever to bring out 6 boxes of size 8 shoes. We didn't all wear 8 but we were trying to be fast.... We rode the carousel and got the attendant's signature. We got three different pieces of candy from the row of 16 red candy machines. We each bought another team member a truffle from Godiva and had to accept it emotionally as if it were the best gift we'd ever recieved. We went into the Lego store and built something that represented our team (and had to explain why we picked it) and buy it (Our team chose the shape of 1 lol). We found the store with the working clock next to it's name and drew the face of it. We found the symbol on the side of a very certain tea box in one store. We bought "Happy Birthday Stickers" from Papyrus. We laid on the ground and took a pic of us all on the ground in front of one store but some crabby lady wouldn't let us! We found a specific brand and kind of eyeliner at Sephora and bought it. Funny thing is, we asked one lady where this brand was and she said they didn't have it there. A few seconds later a man asked if he could help us, we asked about the brand and he told us exactly where it was!! And then he hurried the people in line so we could get on with our hunt. And several other things. The most embarrassing thing we had to do was go to "The Calendar Store and find the 2011 Jusin Bieber calendar, one team member had to kiss the cover while the rest of the team screamed "I have Bieber Fever!!" (For the rest of the time we were running around people kept saying "Look it's Justin Bieber! Where's Justin Bieber? or I love Justin Bieber!" Awful awful! And our moms made us have them on speaker phone while we did it!! My team won! Then we went to "The Melting Pot". The car ride over was really funny, I rode with Claire, Maddy and Katherine. The place was really.... fancy. It was all fondue we ordered and had to specify like EVERYTHING lol. It was good, but sadly in my opinion not my favorite by any means. The dessert was the best, we had chocolate fondue of course and tons of things to dip in, it was the FOURTH course! lol. I got to sit with pretty much everyone because we did seat swapping and there was tons of talking. Mainly with Claire, Maddy, Katherine, Lexie and oddly Hannah's 'grammy'. We played ninja in front of the Melting Pot!! It was hilarious and super fun! And I even got to visit with my aunt Shannon later. By the time we went home it was lllaaaatee! We picked up the kids, I carried in my little brother, tucked him in and went to bed. It was soo great! Before I fell asleep I wondered what all my friends were doing that day... Then I passed out... LOL Laterz!