Saturday, February 20, 2010
Today – We decided to go to the Aquatic Center at one, and then the movie “Percy Jackson and the Olympians – The Lightning Thief” afterwards. To kill time until then, though, we went and saw Danyel’s horses (beautiful animals!), and played with her dogs, Skittles the cat, and a laser pointer. Smoky the fat cat (fattest animal I’ve ever seen.) tried to play with the laser pointer too, but he just couldn’t… move properly.
Danyel drove us into town in her adorable pickup. We listened to the radio and sang along with “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” a fantastic song that is very country and very good. See? I’m not the only one who loves country! Danyel’s a fan as well! The truth is, the most beautiful girls adore country music… and Danyel, at least, drives a hot car to go along with her gorgeous face and soul ^_^ Her pickup may be old, but it’s awesome.
At the Aquatic Center, we went down the slides a whole bunch of times, and went around the lazy river fourteen times. Why? Oh, for the marvelously illogical reason that there is a sign in the middle of the lazy river that says, “Water Walkers – if you’re counting, 39 laps makes approximatly 1 mile.” After seeing that sign, we just had to try to reach 39. At fourteen, we were too bored to continue… We went to play water volleyball instead, at which I suck. Once we left, we had to come back for my watch, and then waited for the movie to start. (Enough menial details!) We grabbed a water cup from the concession stand, and got two quarters worth each of M&Ms, Skittles, and Runts from the little candy-machine-put-in-your-quarter-and-turn-the-handle things. Either our concept of size has changed since we were small, or else a quarter buys you a whole lot less candy nowadays…
The Lightning Thief was a great movie, although there were many discrepancies between book and movie. The director also directed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone -- In my opinion, his ability to stick to a book has gone downhill, but his skill in making good movies has grown greatly. Annabeth’s eyes were really strange… and that’s all I have to say about that.
Afterwards, Dad, Rick and I went to Johnny J’s diner. They have the best veggie burgers, fries, and pie in the universe. I had all three. I may not be as corny as Kansas in August, but I ordered some abnormally good blueberry pie. If you’re ever in Casper, Wyoming, make sure you go to Johnny J’s, it is splendid.
And now, I am home, with a computer on my lap, and an APUSH book review book sitting next to me. Tomorrow will be another fabulous day, I’m sure. Along with all the other things I’m planning to do, people I’m planning to see, I’ll read through the above entry and edit out the silly, boring stuff – wish me luck with that ^_^ night!
Editing has commenced, and finished, but… well, I suppose you’ll decide whether there are still way too many unexciting details or not. For my part, I think that there are more than there should be, but not enough to be able to fix it properly – oh well. If you want to know the little parts of what I’ve been doing, here’s how you find out!
