Vashon Island

today was a day of adventure with the family. my mom and dad decided it would be fun to go to Vashon Island for the day since we have never been there before. my brother and i had no clue where we were going, all we knew was we were going to spend most of the day in our cramped car. we all piled in to our ford escape around 12pm and headed to the ferry. it wasn't the nicest of days but we grinned and bared it. when we got there we spent most of our time in down town and ate at the Hardware Store. it was AMAZING food! after eating we headed out to the lighthouse. to my dads dismay, the lighthouse was small. oh well. on the beach though, my mom and i went camera happy and took pictures of rock, shell and piece of drift wood we could find. it was a fun, interesting, and slightly adventurous day on Vashon Island for me and my family, well maybe not my brother (he read through most the trip).

Summer is almost here!!

after Friday there are only 3 weeks of school left minus a long weekend! now that swim team started and climbing is coming to an end the last of the school year is going by so fast. also with due dates in in June the end seems so close. in leadership career day has past TOC is comming up and the 9th grade boat dance soon. YAY its almost summer. the badthing is finals are soon.. EEEP! Well hopfuly, the end will turn out great!

MSP testing

The MSP is the new WASL and it isnt very great in my oppion. its not much different from the WASL and it didnt test us much on what we learned this year but last year in 7th grade. luckly... ITS OVER!!! and next year there is no MSP for 9th graders. ihave a years break. this also marks the 3 weeks left in school point! YAY

regionals... the end is almost here and a new beginning starts

this weekend was SCS (Sport Climbing Series) regionals. i didnt do as well as i had hoped but im a now prepared to come back next year and completely crush. it has been a great learning. next year it will be my year. i have had so much fun climbing with my friends and getting so strong. Swim team is started and im looking forward to A times and hopefuly getting a 25 sec 50 yrd free style to beat the record... fingers crossed. its a large goal but ill still try. last year my best time was 29sec so if i get a quicker dive and faster turn ill be golden. i put 200% into all my sports but know there is room for error. as climbing season comes to an end, swim season comes to an open and i say goodbye to the fear of falling and hello to the fear of running out of breath. My arms will no longer get pumped but now go numb. there is still about a month left of Vertical World team so i will not say all my goodbyes till next year yet. as a new year comes i am prepared to brake records in swimming and crush like i have never crushed before in climbing.

Swim team!! (Finally)

yay! i finally started swim team (on Monday)! i have been waiting for it to start since it ended... it is soooo nice to see my swim friends again... we are all family there... we all started talking like we saw each other the day before...our coaches this year rock... last years assistant coaches are the head coaches and the assistant coach is an old swimmer and my friends brother... practice was like any other... just as hard.. just as fun.. just as painful =)... it felt like we had never left... Go Tsunamis!!! We rock!... this year is going to be awesome (like normal).

Daughtry

on Sunday evening i went to a Daughtry concert with my mom! the funny thing is we got the tickets so long ago we forgot bout the concert until a couple days before...it was at the WAMU theater in Seattle... the theater was quite small but it was sold out (i didn't like the smallness)...it was a great concert CAVO opened up followed by Lifehouse (who i LOVE!!!) and finally DAUGHTRY!!! so cool to see them live...we left 20min. early cause of traffic and it was a school night i and i was sooo tired... i love concerts they are soo much fun... thanks mom!

GO SOUNDERS!!!

on Saturday i went to a sounders soccer game with my dad after yearbook camp. this game was my first real sounders game. i went once before but a long time ago and they weren't a big team. the match was against the Columbus crew and sadly we tied (blah refs). i had tons of fun with my dad! our seats were amazing. we stood the entire game and the fans are so supportive. before going to the game we had a couple of hours extra so we walked all the way to westlake to eat and back to quest field... blah LONG walk but it was worth it. GO SOUNDERS!

Go Mariners!!

last night i went to my first mariners game! it went into the 12th inning and sadly... we lost :( but it was a great game! we had high seats (sec 316) but we had a good view of the field. we had 2 extra tickets so lezlie and her dad joined us. we shared a huge snow cone.. it was soooo hard to eat. nat the game i was being a shutter bug (like always) and got some great pics. i had loads of fun with my mom, dad, lezlie, and her dad! im at safco field again for yearbook U. and at 7:30 im off to a sounders game!!!!!!! GO SOUNDERS! GO MARINERS!