One down two more to go

All of the roalty got together to get our float done by the 25th. We then put it in our first parade! It was so fun! There were two parades on 25th so I was on the float in the one and did marching band in the sceond one. During the first parade the marching band was right behind us, and I then realized what an important part the bass drum plays. We didn't have any in the first parade, and it sounded really tinny. :) Oh well we sound amazing any way!

Here are some pics from making the float and both parades!

Here is 3 out of 4 of the roalty working on our float!

Here is our sign we put on the back of the float!

Me painting a part of the wood that we had forgotten!

Our wondeful helpers that came to help us! Miss Emery is in the castle with the staple gun and her mom is in the yellow shirt :)

My mom and BrinLee's mom working on our hand holds

Our Tiny Tot working and playing with the glitter! :)

Our hand holds!

Trasporting our float :)

Float!

More of us on the float in the parade!

The marching band with out a bass drum!

Me after the parade, heading to the other parade where I will be drumming

Princess to Percussionist :)

Me and my bass!

More bass!

Lagoon's Skycoaster

Wow!!!!!! I had the time of my life yesterday!!!! I went to Lagoon with my Marching band after the Days of '47 parade. The parade was awesome even if we were 104 in line :) We were 105 last year. It did kick my butt though. I was very glad for the water at the end of the parade. hehehe Any way I had an awesome time! My friends and I went on the Wicked, and it was worth the line... well kind of ;)

It was getting closer to 8:30 (that was the time we had to meet back at the gate) and I was standing in line for the Samurai, and a couple of kids from our marching band were talking about how fun the Skycoaster was. I started thinking that the Skycoaster would be fun for me to go on too.

I talked to both of my friends that I was with, and they both refused one saying heck no and the other saying the she was afraid of heights. I was bummed, because I really wanted go. I looked up farther in line and saw my other friend. I called up to him and asked if he wanted to go with me, he slowly accepted and then got on the Samurai. He waited for me to get off the ride then we walked over to the Skycoaster entrance. We paid, got our tickets, then got dressed in the harness thingy. They asked which one us us was going to pull the rip cord. I looked at my friend and he shook his head. He didn't want to do it. While we waited for our turn and I was thinking to myself that I had officially passed the boundaries of being kind of insane to being extremely insane.

The lady called us up to our numbers at the gate. We were told to walk towards the platform thing and stand on it while the other 3 people (one of which was only 5 years old. My friend kept saying she was awesome I agreed) got unhooked. The workers asked us to trade places with the other people and stand so that we could be hooked up to the cable. They told us to lock our arms then garb our own wrist. What they didn't tell us was that they were going to drop the platform out from under us. We felt like we were going to fall flat on our faces.

They rechecked everything then they told us some instructions. I could not understand what she said so she told me that she was going to say 'fliers 3,2,1 FLY', then I was going to have to pull the rip cord. She said not to worry that there would be a speaker up at the top to listen to. The other guy said that when we passed the yellow box the first time, we could spread our arms and fly, after that they sent us up 143 feet into the air. The weird thing was that I felt secure up there in the air in the harness..... yes I know I am insane. teehee :)

When we were almost to the top I said to my friend that we were almost to the top he told me not to remind him. We were both excited and scared at the same time. We sat there for a second then we heard the lady's voice over the speakers saying 'Ok Fliers 3,2,1 FLY!' I kind of freaked out that moment, and could not grab the rip cord. I reached back for the rip cord again then I screamed and he yelled the whole way down. We passed the yellow box and he would not let go of my arm I yelled at him and told him to let go. He did; I think he was in shock and that is why he didn't let go, but I am glad he went with me I would have not gone alone I would have been to chicken.

When we were done they told us to grab the loop we both yelled 'What loop?' It was a tiny loop and sense my arms are to short my friend had to grab it. :) Thanks Weston :) We made it back to the platform and made our way back to the waiting area. When we were getting our harnesses off the guy asked me if I had had fun. I told him it was the most thrill I had had in my entire life he chuckled then asked me what ride we were going on next. I told him we were going to go on Wicked again. We did and it was just as fun as the first time. At least I thought it was.

On the way home the bus had tire problems so instead of getting home at 1:00 am I got home and 4:00 am. :P I slept in till 1:30 in the afternoon, and I am still tired.

Up date! (Marching Band and life, plus writing)

Hello I am have not blogged in a little while and I decided that I would. I am going to do an up date about couple things. Here it goes!

Marching Band: We finally got off the wonderful brake that our band director gave us. It was a good two weeks of sleeping in, and now I am back to waking up ridiculously early. :) We practiced our new song called Patriotic Spectacular for our parade on the 4th this morning like we did yesterday morning. But today our director decided to make us march again down the street from the high school. We marched farther and faster then we did the first week. It was horrible!!!!! The bass drum kept slowing me down and getting me out of line. When we got back from marching I collapsed on the front lawn! I came home and slept for 3 hours.... It was glorious!!! Don't get me wrong I absolutely LOVE Marching Band! It is just a lot of hard work in the early morning :)

Life: I am having a pretty good summer and have enjoyed the more time I have to read and write! I was in a cleaning mood and decided to CLEAN my room. If you have or know any teenagers you understand that their type of clean does not match Parents type of clean... well I turned that around yesterday, at least for me I did. My room is now spotless and no it is not all stuffed under my bed or in my closet. It passed my moms inspection so I am good! All of my clothes are hung up in my closet or are in the dresser. My brothers' rooms are all still pig styes though. I woke up this morning to my clean room and thought that it felt so empty. I think it is better to have and empty feeling room then to have a messy full feeling room.
Some of these pictures of my room turned out crappy, but oh well... All the things behind my head board are blankets not junk :) such a pretty room isn't it? :)
This is my desk... you couldn't even see the surface of it, and I am sure that my turtle was very scared of things crowding the side of her tank, let alone things almost falling in it. Now it only has my books lined up on the side of it :)
This is, or was I should say, the dresser of doom..... I could not find anything in it or on top of it. Now I can see where all of my jewelry body sprays, and other things are :)

Writing: I have come up with some AWESOME ideas for my new story I have decided to write! I have the first chapter and the first sentence of the second chapter. I know that that doesn't seem like a lot but I am proud of myself for coming up with such an awesome, or at least my mom and I think, story idea. I got my writing abilities from my mom, but I also got my passion for writing from her too :)

School is out and Marching band is in...

School got out on May 23rd. So that is my excuse for not writing on my blog or writing my story.....it as been really busy. The last day of school was fun, I got to hang out with my friends and part all night!!!! Ok... maybe not all night :)

Marching band has been fun... when I am not banging my fingers on the rim of the drum... owe!!!!! I play the violin, but it is not a Marching Band instrument, so they stuck me on the smallest bass drum. The bass drum is still too big and it hurts my back like crazy!!! It makes me feel like I am pregnant. Or at least I think so :) The uniform is black and yellow. It is the high school colors, and the uniform is heavy plus marching in black is not my idea of fun, it will be a killer to march in. AND having the bass drum on my chest isn't going to help. Our first parade is this Saturday the 7th. We've only had a week to work on the song we sound pretty good, but having been on the drum for only a week is well... I am going to suck and mess up cadence just to put it to you straight :) teehee I will try not to mess up.

I will put a picture of me in my uniform up later tonight