I'm Not Going Down to Mexico to Drink the Water Anyway

Do any of you like Brad Paisley?  Because he was going through my head this week.
Monday morning I flew, with my parents, to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  We stayed at a hotel with a private beach and I was in heaven.

I drank lots of piñatas, ate lots of food, and sat on the beach every day listening to songs such as, Don't Drink the Water, and Working on a Tan.  But to be fair, I sometimes mixed things up and drank elmo's, or shirley temples, or miami vice's, or my favorite, banana daiquiri's.  Yep, I gained a significant amount of weight in only 5 days.  But that's what happens when you're in the mind set of, "I'm only going to be able to order room service one time in my life, so I don't care if I just ate a 5 course meal, I'm ordering 2 more dishes and drinking fanta from my mini fridge."

I had this baby to myself

Our last meal and my last drink, a very sad moment

Coming back to real life, where there are such things as scales, was no fun.  My mom and I did a 5k snow shoe race this morning and we about died.  It's 3 miles!  We did 13 the weekend before!  But I had to stop and walk.  Let me tell you, running in snow shoes is not as easy as it looks.
On other news, the airport in phoenix had internet and I was able to check facebook.  I found out that my spanish language/ literature teacher had been missing for a week.  He disappeared after mass one day in Portugal and was found a week later in the river.  He had diabetes, so he could have passed out and fell into the river, or it could have been suicide, but it just seems strange that they couldn't find him for a week, even after they checked the river multiple times.  This man was amazing.  He was a marista in the Catholic church and he devoted his whole life to his religion.  He's the only teacher that failed me my first term.  But he kept helping me, and by the end he was one of my favorites.  Whatever happened to him, I'm sad more students wont get the opportunity to learn more from him.
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Proving my mother wrong has never felt this good

When I sign up for a race I always come up with a time I want to beat. I then take 3 more minutes off that time and tell my mom that new time is my goal.  Without fail she tells me it's impossible and then starts laughing at me.  She then talks about how I haven't trained enough and how I'm a new runner, etc.  The thing is, the time I tell her is not the real time I want to beat, but her negative comments tend to play over and over in my head during the race, so it's usually the time I beat.
This half I wanted to take 3 minutes off my best time.  Only 3 because I knew the course was not a fast course.  I told my mom that I wanted to take 5 minutes off and of course she laughed and told me it was impossible with all the hills.  So, naturally, I beat my best time by 6 minutes.  And it's the first time I haven't felt sick afterwards.  Today was a success story and I think my mom may have figured out my strategy.  She figured it out, but it doesn't mean she'll stop laughing when I tell her "ridiculous" times.  And I don't want her to, because that's what drives me on.  Weird relationship? I think so. But it works for us!
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A Day of cleaning

Today I tackle this mess.  I've been putting it off for quite some time now, but I know it has to be clean before I head to Mexico.  Since I'm leaving for St. George tomorrow and I leave for Mexico the day after I get back from St. George, I have to do it all today.  Wish me luck!
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Today's Agenda

- Go to Church 

- Teach CTR 5

- Meet with my dad

- Make pumpkin pasties

- Eat

-Watch Once Upon a Time

- Finish Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

- Start Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1

- Continue with my Mrs. Claus cross-stitch

I'm now down to the pumpkin pasties.  Let me tell you, those 5 year olds have a lot of energy.

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Back Again

I'm back on BYU campus again.  Joy.  Actually, it gave me something to do today which was a plus.  I have several more errands to run which is another plus.  So this no school no work thing is somewhat working out.  And hey!  If I ever get bored again I could put a little time into my room.  It looks like a tornado came through it.  At least that's what my mom claims.
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Living the Simple Life

I know you're all wondering what will I do for two months without school or work.  Well I have a few ideas and I started some of them today.
Did you know that Argentina has The Voice?  It's brilliant!  I think I've already seen ten clips.  It's very educational.  For example, I've learned that in Argentina, the normal salutation is one kiss, and it's normal for guys to kiss.  In Spain it was two kisses and handshakes between men.  For your enjoyment:

And while I was watching those, this clip came up.  Back in the summer, when David Archuleta's new CD came out I started looking up songs on youtube.  Come to find out, his new CD that was released in the states, was not the same one with all his new songs on youtube.  Apparently, he's famous outside the US and he even did a movie.  No matter how awful this is, I still love him.

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Photo Booth

Lately I've been extremely bored, so I've spent an unhealthy amount of time on photo booth.  When I was in spain, there was a missionary that me and my friends made fun of because he was constantly taking pictures of himself.  I feel a little like that missionary.  Here are my favorites:

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