(“Fish of April” in French and Italian 
e.g. April Fool’s)
I can’t believe it’s april already… It doesn’t seem possible.
Ok, so the fish thing… Apparently a long time ago people in Europe used to stick real fishes on people’s backs on the first of April… Now they just stick paper fish on each other. It’s less smelly that way. 
lol
My body has had an… interesting time adjusting to being back at school. On Monday I woke up at 7. Tuesday I woke up at 7:30. This is very strange… Did I need to be up that early? No. No I didn’t. But I was. So I got some work done. Contrary to popular belief, I do actually enjoy early mornings, but only if I’m wake up on my own, not with an alarm or because I have to be awake. It’s nice being awake when no one else is…
So… Spring break! On Wednesday Elaine and I went to Kentwood and visited a bunch of our former teachers and then went over to Auburn Riverside HS where another of our former teachers was teaching. We checked in at the office and found out where her classroom was. It was her planning period and the door was locked, so we decided to wait outside her door, hoping that she would come back soon. After about half an hour, we finally went back to the office and asked if she had checked out already. Apparently she had an appointment to go to and had a substitute scheduled for 6th period, so I guess she had just left instead of staying during her planning period (5th period). This made Elaine and I very sad. 
So… we wrote her a note and drew a picture. After that we went back to my house and played with puppies 
and then with Ethel, my cello. Elaine also plays cello, but she doesn’t have a very good one, so she was excited to be able to play around on mine for a bit. After she left, I quickly ate dinner then had Dad drive me over to Desta’s house, where I spent the night, since we were planning on leaving at 6 in the morning.
Desta had the first driving shift for the trip and drove until… sometime in Eastern Washington… Then Jen took over. We got Subway for lunch in Spokane and then were on our way again. It was a gorgeous day, and we really didn’t have any driving issues at all. Oh! When we drove past the Idaho border, Jen kind of squeeled a bit. lol She’s from California and had never been to Idaho before. We had to stop at the first exit so that she could touch the ground and say that she’s been in Idaho. …more driving… When we met up with Alex in Montana, we went to his grandparents house, where we stayed for the weekend. The house was in a pretty wooded area and right on a really big lake with a gorgeous view of the mountains. The four of us (Lisa, who was going to come with us, decided not to go at the last minute) went down to the dock and took some pictures down there, and Alex showed us his uncle’s house, which was right next door and he had helped build. It was absolutely gorgeous. I loved it. Around 5:30 or so we left to go see some things around town, including his church, and then went to his house (we weren’t allowed to be there until 7). We had a delicious dinner (wild rice soup, bread, salad, grapes…) and cake. After food, we played telephone pictionary, which was really fun. Everyone draws a picture, pass it to the person next to then, who then they have to write a description of the picture. This then gets passed to the next person, who has to draw a picture based on the description given (they can’t see the original picture), and it keeps going in that pattern until it gets back to the original person. It was quite entertaining. lol
On Friday, Alex made us eggs, bacon, and toast for breakfast. After that, we went to Glacier National Park. It was really pretty and we had fun playing in the snow. Jen even made her very first snow angel ever! lol We spent most of the afternoon there, then headed back to Alex’s house and just hung out around there. We ordered pizza for dinner and then invited some of his other friends and played killer bunnies (rather complicated card game that my friends seem to be obsessed with… lol).
Saturday we slept in a bit, then had pancakes for breakfast. We couldn’t really decide how we wanted to spend the day, so we drove around a bit by his grandparent’s house, then went through the woods down toward the lake and took a bunch of pictures there. Because we had breakfast kinda late, we weren’t really hungry for lunch, but we did have huckleberry shakes. Those were DELICIOUS!!! After that, we went up to Big Mountain. We had been considering taking the ski lift up to the top to take pictures and see the view from up there, but it was so cloudy that we wouldn’t really have been able to see much. So we just went to some little souvenir shops and played in the snow a little. Then we went back to Alex’s house. For dinner that night we went to a Mongolian restaurant to celebrate David Steele’s birthday. David Steele also lives in Kalispell, Montana, and also goes to PLU with us. His birthday was actually on Monday, but he wanted to celebrate with his family while he was home and invited us to come along. Dinner was delicious, and I tried buffalo meat, which was tasty. And… oh, we went to his house afterwords. When we got back to the house, we decided to make nachos. Yum! And we didn’t get to sleep until like 1. :/
We woke up at 4 the next morning to get ready to leave. Alex took the first driving shift, since he knew where he was, and I had shotgun since I was the most awake, and we had fun trying to count all the deer. I think there were 7 or 8. There was more snow on the return trip… And the windshield wipers got kinda icy, so they weren’t very good at wiping the window and Alex had to get a little creative in trying to see the road. When we got to Ellensburg, we stopped at Desta’s mom’s house and had lunch. She made chilli soup and corn bread. :) We were there for about an hour before we got back on the road. We got back to school around 2. Alex and Jen had homework they needed to get to, so just Desta and I went to her house to get the rest of Jen and her stuff, then to my house to pick up my laptop and cello (Alex is using her for the rest of semester).
Overall, it was a really fun spring break, and, for the most part, relaxing.
Yesterday, Alex and I went to the Bose store because the battery for his speaker wasn’t working and his warranty ended today. Unfortunately, they couldn’t get him a new one in the store, but he was able to send in the whole speaker in and they’ll fix it. After we left to get gas, he remembered that he had wanted to buy a remote for his speaker, too, so we went back to the store, but they didn’t sell them in the store. So we went back to PLU to get the rest of his speaker and got that sent off. Later that evening Jen, Lisa, and I went dress shopping for spring formal. I didn’t end up buying a dress for the dance, but I did get a really cute little sun dress and a pair of earings from Fuego.
Oh!!! At lunch today, it was Mediterranean themed and free!, but I didn’t really realize that before I had bought a panini from the market. I did go in and get some flat bread, though, and then I saw it. BAKLAVA!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! I think I scared Desta a bit. lol. Oh, how I love baklava. It made me very happy.
Ok. I think that’s all the exciting news I have to share. :)
