Valentine's Day

Originally I was super excited for Valentine's Day because I was going to be on a cruise in the middle of the Caribbean with my boyfriend, but ended up staying with some friends in Portland Oregon. I was so thankful that we had people to take us in on such short notice and let us stay so there was no way I could complain.

We started our day by going to church in the morning. Then we all went to lunch at McMinimins on the waterfront in Vancouver, where they live. Cole and I had never been to Ikea so we decided to go after lunch. It was huge! Ikea has every single thing you need for a house. I really liked some of their stuff, but got overwhelmed about 3/4 of the way through it. There's just so much and we couldn't buy anything because we were flying out the next morning. Cole just bought his first house, so he really liked looking at everything. We realized how much he needs after going through there. I really liked some of their kitchens. I like the modern look in the kitchen and they had a lot like that. I feel like I could never have a house that looked like their models, so I like going in and seeing what it would look like. It makes me wish I could have a house that coordinated together like the models. I like a lot of their storage units and shelves also. At the end of the "tour" they have a little eating place and we all got an ice cream cone for a dollar that made it worth it.

We were pretty exhausted by the time we got back and all tried to sleep a little bit before it got close to dinner time. Cole and I tried getting reservations at a few different places, but they were either booked or too expensive. We took advice from our friends and went to a place that was supposed to be really good. It wasn't exactly what I imagined when we walked it. There was live music by an old guy with his guitar singing songs that just annoyed me. Our table happened to be right next to him. After sitting down we found out you have to be 21 to be there and since i'm not 21 we had to move across to the room that was set up for people without reservations. The room didn't even seem part of the restaurant. The food was decent, but I don't know if I would want to go back again. We were a little rushed with dinner because we went to Dear John afterwards. The movie was pretty good, but the company was the best part of the night. Our flight was at 6:00 a.m. so we had to be up at 4 to get to the airport in time. It was off to bed for us and off to Cancun!- It was a great day.

Rocky Beginning

The company that I worked for this last summer, and that my boyfriend works for takes a trip each year for it's employees that earn the trip. It's a sales company and my boyfriend won two trips, so we were both able to go. It was a cruise to Jamaica and Haiti, (I know I've probably already explained all of this before). We left Friday, February 12Th, from Boise and flew to Portland. Our flights were from Boise to Portland, Portland to Atlanta, Atlanta to Ft. Lauderdale on red-eyes. We landed in Portland to find that our flight to Atlanta had been canceled due to snow! We couldn't believe, 1. our flight was canceled, but 2.because of snow in Atlanta Georgia! We arrived in Portland around 9:30p.m. and after many hours of waiting in line at the Delta ticketing counter, trying to find another flight, we had to spend the night in the airport. It wasn't looking good. There were absolutely no other flights getting us anywhere in Florida. It seems everyone was trying to get to the same place and all flights were booked. Our cruise left around 4:00 in the afternoon Saturday, so we had a limited time to get us there. We found a red couch at a restaurant to "sleep," which was me making sure our bags were still there every so often. The counter opened again at 4:00 a.m. so we woke up to try and find another flight then, but again no luck. It finally sunk in that we were going to miss our cruise and there was nothing we could do about it.

Normally I would be very emotional in this kind of situation, but I found that I was pretty peaceful. It was also a perfect situation for Cole and I to be cranky with each other, being up for so long, and our vacation taken away, but I feel like it brought us even closer together. We couldn't be mad because we couldn't control anything that happened and had to just pray and trust that everything would work out.

Cole's regional manager is the one that pays for the trip and plans it so we had to just wait to hear from him what we were to do. We thought there were pretty much two options. Either flying back to Boise and just bagging the trip, or trying to fly to Jamaica and catch the cruise there. After about 13 hours or so we finally heard from him and we were going to Cancun! It turned out that pretty much the whole group of employees couldn't make the cruise. I was so happy to hear that we weren't just flying back to Boise after all of this. We had to go in line one more time to change our flights to Cancun, which took another 2+ hours standing at the ticket counter. They called our situation "the perfect storm." We finally had our plans to go and could leave the airport!

Transformation Lists

Marshmallows
Formal
1.White
2.Powdery
3.Squishy
4.Edible
5.Sticky
6.Round
7.Fluffy
8.Soft
9.Hardens when heated
Function
1.Food
2.Flavor
3.Sweets
4.Ingrediant

Clay
Formal
1.Tan
2.Pliable
3.Soft
4.Hardens
5.Chips Easily
6.Pretty Smooth
7.Slimy when forming
Function
1.Sculpture
2.Crafts

Beans
Formal
1.Brown
2.White
3.Round
4.Hard
5.Soft when cooked
6.Small
7.Smooth
8.Can be Mushy
Function
1.Ingrediant
2.Flavor
3.Food
4.Taste
5.Texture