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Thursday, August 12, 2004 / 12:23 AM

okay, it's blog time now.

my mom rented out a big old cabin next to lake como for a night, the last night left that wasn't booked for the rest of the summer, and she booked this way back in march too. we were accompanied by my grandparents and their dog pebbles, my aunt and uncle (denise and dan) and their two little kids (sierra and dakota), aunt kay plus kyle kelly & kenneth...that makes 15 of us plus two dogs, and we all spent the night there too. fun fun...

of course we had to go swimming first...and kyle and I had a one-way mudfight with kelly and nick. great stuff. but then I told nick that my mom had just got a leech off her leg (true statement) and he freaked out. wimp. too bad I didn't tell him what my mom also told me, about hearing someone walking around in the cabin when she was the only one in there...he would have cried. we played some guitar too. as the sun started setting we took turns in our 3-4 person raft and learned that dakota has a very very corrupted mind, and he's only five. we had to throw him off the raft after about 15 minutes cuz we just couldn't take it anymore. those stories might be kinda funny at first, but damn...

aaand, you always need to roast marshmallows. nick sucks at looking for stuff, and the fact that his night vision sucks doesn't help either, so I went out and grabbed about 10 and came back to find that he had found this puny little twig. lovely, nick. then "the cousins" (that title's gonna go down in history) went to go play hide and seek in the woods. me, I walked out to the edge of the woods where it meets this hill of big rocks by the shore, keeled over in the dirt and watched a meteor shower for a couple hours. that is just the hugest window in the world. down here you almost never get to see what's more than a few miles away from you, but then when you look above you, we're talkin millions of light years. guess who I wished could be there with me.

that night was just odd. the usual six kids, plus dakota slept in the big middle room between the bedroom hallway and the kitchen. kelly read a couple of ghost stories from a book, and once I saw this black orb move slowly behind the door. then again I see those a lot, but I usually don't see them move like that. after we turned out the lights nick and I heard something run really fast from the hallway to the kitchen. probably took only three seconds to move that far. it was really creepy, even after we figured it was a squirrel. that sounded like a freakin huge, lightning fast squirrel, I couldn't even imagine what it looked like...we heard it running around, dropping stuff on the floor for the rest of the night too. I slept for a couple hours maybe...then I felt this hand on my knee. about ten seconds later it went away. didn't know what that meant. maybe five minutes later, someone crawled onto my bed and crouched at my feet. at first I thought it was someone trying to scare kelly in her sleep (she was sleeping next to me). but it didn't do anything beyond facing my direction. it was there for at least a minute. I didn't know who the hell it was so I asked "what are you doing?" and then all I heard was this high-pitched screech. It was Dakota, freaking out because EVERYTHING IS BLACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! kay heard him and took him to his parents' room. I stared at the ceiling and listened to that freakish squirrel animal until kyle got up at five to watch some sunrise. I joined in and that woke everyone else up and we all ate cookies. at six we were in bed again, except kyle who played us a "good morning tune" on his guitar. he played it for about an hour, but it was nice. kyle finally went to bed again and we all amazingly slept really well for a few hours.

then there was today. I was totally unprepared to hear my mom say that we were all going on a "six-mile hike" to a waterfall at the other side of the lake. all I had was a pair of flip-flops, because knowing me I'm the lightest packer in the world (all I brought was a change of clothes, a swimsuit and a toothbrush). well, well. I ended up walking/running on that dirt path for an hour and a half! that is NOT three miles, that must have been five at the very least. I was the second one there, and it took another half hour for everyone else to show up. It was a real nice waterfall after all that. climbed on the rocks all the way up to the white-water part too. my feet were killing me already, but of course I had to walk and run alllll the way back. kyle says he ran a half-marathon once. I believe him now. he ran the entire way without walking, both ways. I always come in second!!!! and then I somehow manage to walk myself all the way down the rocks to the shore to swim some more and all the way back. I have this huge blister on the bottom of my foot, and they both are just sore. I limp with both legs...yay



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