Nothing Quite Like It!

I finished one more semester. There is nothing quite like the feeling of knowing that you are done, and for at least a short period of time you can live your life free of academic stress! It is weird to think that I have spent my last summer in Rexburg. It will be bitter sweet when I leave at the end of the Fall semester never to return to Rexburg.

In my humble opinion the moving part is the worst part of finishing a semester. I'm not sure why I have chosen to move into a new apartment each semester, but I would do it again given the opportunity. However, I feel good about the fact that the next apartment I move into will be the last of my Rexburg apartments (I hope I'm not jinxing myself to marry a freshmen right when I graduate. That would be my luck! 4 more Rexburg winters....YIKES)

I was helping some of my roommates for next semester move their stuff using my truck. This was actually the only fun part of moving. I got to ride in the bed of the truck on a love sac while Megan drove :).....See how happy and exhausted I look? That's the look of a freshly finished semester at it's finest. It's a beautiful thing. The next 7 weeks will be full of fun, work, rest, and relaxation.

Indepence Day at Bear Lake

We went to my roommates house at Bear Lake for the holiday weekend. We started the weekend with a stop at Lava Hot Springs. This is the tower at Lava. Stephen, Taylor, Derek, and I are on the top level, and Paige and Aleena are on the second level.

We spent all day Saturday on the beach. Everyone except for me got burned to a crisp. Whats my secret? Sunscreen. Imagine that. It was a nice relaxing day on the beach. Just the right amount of swimming, sleeping, and reading. For the rest of the weekend if I so much as bumped into anyone they would cringe because of their severe sunburns.

We went to the local ward in Bear Lake on Sunday morning and it was PACKED!! They estimated there were about 1,500 people there for sacrament meeting. It was insane.

Sunday afternoon we just relaxed at Paige's house. This is a group picture from Sunday afternoon.

We did a lot of napping, reading, boondoggling, and playing games.

Just a deer that passed through Paige's back yard.
Paige's house is at the top of a mountain over looking all of Bear Lake and the entire valley. It is beautiful!! This picture really does it no justice, but it's really the only one I have of the view. Just imagine you can see a huge lake and the entire valley.

Campfire and roasting marshmallows.

Note: The giant marshmallows look like they will be super fun, but they are too big! They will most likely make you feel sick from a sugar rush.
We spent Monday on the beach again. We brought a tent this time for everyone who couldn't handle being in the sun.
I was all for soaking up more sun! I was re-reading the Hunger Games. I love those books!!!

We finished the trip with a giant pizza from some famous place in Bear Lake (so famous I can't remember the name). Before heading to Idaho Falls for fireworks.

This has nothing to do Bear Lake. I went to Big 5 sporting goods on Tuesday, and found this.