Saturday

Peering over the edge of Twin Falls


Mitch being somewhat silly, emerging from underneath the rockface.

The Last Saturday of Break:

Break was coming to an end, and the guys would be leaving soon. But Saturday was a nice day. We went to church and I got talked into doing Sabbath school the next week. Then it was time for church, Mitch drew in my sketch book and I drew crazy designs on a piece of notebook paper. Jay and Marla were working on sumdoku, which is like sudoku, but different cause there are sums in each block and you have to make it match. Yep we were totally paying attention to the sermon.
We were invited over to the Pastor’s house for lunch with a few of the other SM’s. Mitch and Zack found the guitars and started playing praise songs, the rest of us joined in when we knew the song. After we ate lunch (which was delicious by the way) Zack told us that Mr. B was planning on taking those who wanted to go to Twin Falls. Of course the guys wanted to go and Raz offered us a ride back to the school. We crammed into the back seat of the rental car, I had to sit on Marla’s lap, Jay was in the middle and Mitch was on the far side…Raz made sure he hit all the speed bumps in the school parking lot, I felt bad for Marla. I have a very bony butt and I the fact that I was sitting right on her stomach…didn’t help things much. We were all laughing quite a lot when we piled out of the car.
Twin Falls is like the place to go cliff jumping, if you don’t feel like throwing yourself off a 30 - 40 foot cliff. The drop at Twin Falls is maybe 15 feet…I wanted to go to be with the guys, but I hate cliff jumping with a passion. Takes me forever to jump off, even though I have done it before…and I know I am not going to hit anything. When we got there, all of us just stood at the top of the falls and looked down…we started asking each other who was going to jump first…I felt like a bunch of penguins looking into the ocean… “no you go first, oh no I couldn’t do that…I insist you go first…” Finally Kim jumped off and then Jen and then everyone else, but Jay and I. Jay said he wanted a life guard down there when he jumped off. And I wasn’t reading to jump off yet…actually everyone jumped off twice before I got around to jumping off the first time. After I climbed back up to the top I decided that I wanted to jump off one more time so that I could climb up the face of the rock…I had to have Mitch count down for me…cause I chickened out about 10 times already…once I hit the water I swam quickly to the side and waited for Mitch. He showed my where to step on the rocks and where the hand holds were, Mr. B got down on one of the over hanging rocks to make sure that we made it. Like you have to put your foot just so, put both hands on the same hold and then swing your left foot across this large gap and then bring your right foot over…then you have to pull yourself through this perfect circle in the rock, I found it a little bit hard, cause I have like no upper body strength and you have to push yourself up with your arms, I had to use my knee and my feet to keep myself from falling and once I was out of the hole I had to turn around and carefully climb up the slippery rock. I did accept a hand from Mitch…but really that climb was easier then the so called “easy route” at least with this one if you slip and fall you will land in the water a few feet down…on the easy route if you fall you will continue down the second waterfall…which didn’t look like it would end all that nicely.
When we got back, of course the boys were hungry, guys are always hungry. We ordered pizza and sat around talking and playing “Ah Shucks” the favorite of the guys by that time. I won that game, had like a hundred and some points…After we ate, it was decided that we should watch a movie…but the guys wanted to watch “Lady in the Water” Marla and I were not about to watch that movie, we told them to try again. We finally ended up watching Cars (which is a very good movie, kinda slow in parts…but the animation is great) After the movie Mitch fell asleep on the couch and Jay tried to load something on my computer…I was fading fast, I was still sore from the day before. We traded e-mail address and talked for a bit about random things…I was sitting on the bed couch and it didn’t take long before I fell asleep. Mitch said that he heard everything that we were talking about…I can guarantee that I was out like a light…I didn’t notice anything until the guys left. I did have to go outside and calm the dogs down who were about to devour the guys. Toosca (sp?) was giving Mitch the look of “If you take one more step I am going to bite you.” So I had to go out there and sweet talk the dog until the guys were able to step out…Ten minutes after they left…it down poured…I felt really bad for them walking back to the Pastors in the rain, but there wasn’t anything I could do about it.