BEST. DAY. EVER.

Before I get too caught up...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!

I LOVE YOU!!!!

Now on to the best date and day ever! 

After work Garett and I went on a triple date. We went with our friends and roommates Weston and Melissa (his girlfriend), Sam and Liz. (Weston & Sam are Garett's roommates and Liz is one of my roommates).

We headed off around 1pm to the ice caves. The drive was long and as my reached the entrance to the dirt road we realized we would not make it in Weston's car. Garett and Weston seemingly deceived by their poor memories believed the road to only be a mile and suggested we walk. Without knowing better we agreed. About 10-15 minutes into the walk a suburban comes by and offers us a ride. We gladly accept. 

A bit down the road we got stuck, but luckily we had 6 guys to push the car out of the snow. For the last half Sam, Garett and another kid decided to ride holding on to the back of the car.

TO give you an idea of the road conditions....only people with 4-Wheel drive can ever make it down the road, not including the foot of snow, rocks and an overall East coast feel of being VERY hilly, but on a smaller bumpier scale. Needless to say they had a little too much fun riding and bouncing along on the back of the car.

Once we reached the mouth of the cave it was a slightly too compacted travel of snow with lots of rocks. Inside the cave it was ice and about half of it was done crawling on your hands and knees. The ice had little trails worn down into snake-like ditches that ran through each section of ice. There was one part where you laid on your back, head first and crawled through on your back with you feet pushing against the rock above you to move along. There was another part with a rope where you put your back against a HUGE slab of ice, with your feet against the rock and semi-slide down on your back holding the rope. 

Once you reached the back of the cave there were 2 places worn down into slides and off to the right were stepping spots to climb up. Before we went sliding we had to bust out the glow sticks. We sprayed each other and the area around us about 20 feet in diameter. We turned off all the lights and we could see almost perfectly. There really is something awesome about sliding around in an ice cave spotted with glow juice. It's as if there were slip n' slides in the heavens with stars all around. Sounds epic huh? It was!

After much sliding in the cave we headed back out and back along the crazy bumpy road, praying around every turn and hill that we would not get stuck. We didn't and made it to our cars safely. We joked with the people we road with that they pretended to be nice and give us a ride (which they really were quite nice for doing so). They joked that they just wanted our weight and man power when they got stuck. Somehow the whole ride back with filled with much laughter with a car full of strangers. 

We decided that after a long day of being cold and with wet knees and bottoms we would head to Cocoa Bean to enjoy hot chocolate and cupcakes. We ended our date, a date none of us will EVER forget. 

So see ya around! bet you wish you were be now.

Sorry.

I guess Rexburg can be pretty awesome.

-Meg

Something New

Today I had a pretty cool experience. My roommates and I were at home and someone suggested we should go to the nature park and feed the ducks some old hotdog buns. We hopped in Melissa's car and headed off. It was cool to feed the ducks here because there is more of a variety. Back in NC there are Canadian geese and Mallard ducks and that is about it. Here they have ones of all different colors, shapes and sizes. After feeding their needy appetites we took a walk around the lake and Jewelissa offered a brilliant idea.

She mentioned that there was an animal shelter just down the road and we could play with the cats and dogs. We took a little trip over there and found out we could take the dogs on walks. Each of us picked out a dog. Jewelissa got a sweet and excited pit bull named Atika. Melissa had a girl dog named Reba and I had one named Daisy.

The lady let us sign in and take the dogs down to the pond. We walked them around the lake and they loved it. Atika was the most eager of them all and led the way most of the time. It was a fun experience.

Living in Rexburg in a college town I don't get to see too many dogs around. And let's face it, dogs are amazing creatures and a true blessing to have in your life. (I miss you Emily!) This gave me a chance to have some fun with a dog and let her run around and play. I found out that a lot of people come to take the dogs for walks, so though they may not all have homes, they still have people that care for them.

This definitely humbled me. You always see the shows with the nasty kennels and the abusive owners. But the owner of this one is sweet and she has little kids that like to play with the animals after school. She knows each dog or cat by name and their personalities.

My roommates and I are hoping to go back on friday and take Moose, a puppy great dane. He is not even a year old, but he is bigger and certainly weighs more than me, but he is a sweetheart nonetheless.

I hope you all appreciate your pets and give them the love and affection they deserve, after all, they are God's creatures too and I am certain He loves them too.

When was the last time
you played with your pet?
Meg

A Little of This And That

Wednesday Melissa and I went to Idaho Falls for the afternoon.

And got to walk around this beautiful park along a river and across from the I.F. Temple.
(More pictures later)

And Melissa is pretty awesome to say the least.

Thursday our ward took a trip to Temple Square in SLC.

Just look how beautiful that Temple is!

And apparently about 20+ brides agree because that is about how many we saw in our time being over there. And that was just on a Thursday!

Nikki, Stephanie and I sat on the beautiful grounds right next to the Temple and read our scriptures together. it was quite an experience and the feeling was one I will not forget.

And of course we made some wishes on pennies.

Like I said, it was beautiful. And no, none of these pictures from SLC are from my camera.
My camera is heavy and I did not want to lug it around all day. Plus I've been to Temple Square a few times.

And today I made a silverware drawer!

Yeah my crafty side is coming out. =]
I'm excited!

And my adventure side is coming out too.
I just wanna run around and jump on everything!

Are you jumping in the trees?
Are you jumping on the houses?
Meg