Last Week Happened

Monday
Sherlock Day! Tim, Heidi, Kate, Katie, Tom, Olivia, Allyson, Mindy and Kelly came over to my house to watch all three episodes of BBC Sherlock. We started our day off with a run to Wal-Mart, where we bought enough orange fleece for ten large shock blankets, much to the confusion of the staff helping us there. We then watched A Study in Pink. After a quick run to Noodles & Co., we made the blankets and watched The Blind Banker and The Great Game. So good! Then we ran to King Soopers for dinner and played Chronology, which was lots of fun!

Tuesday
Tuesday was a much more mellow day. I helped my mom figure out her new phone, went for a run, helped clean up the house, and went to my last Mutual activity ever, where we played some board game, ate a cake with our faces on it, and talked a lot.

Wednesday
I drove my mother and sister around to various activities, and then picked Hannah up for the final installment of our Lord of the Rings experience. The Return of the King was absolutely fantastic, and Aragorn is still quite attractive.

Thursday
Ariel aced her last final at Peak to Peak, and we celebrated never having to see the place again. I went to the rec center with Mom and Ariel. I got to bake with Olivia and Katie, which was lovely. We made these chocolate lava cake things - Olivia's idea - and then ran off to get a pair of sunglasses for Olivia before her weekend trip to Moab for kung-fu.

Friday
Went for another run. I wrote my talk for Sacrament Meeting on the meaning of life. There was a block party, so I socialized there for a while, and ate a lot of food. Then I picked up Allyson and took her to my house, and we basically just sat on my couch and talked and laughed for a few hours. It was really nice to spend time with her - I'm so glad we're both going to BYU.

Saturday
I went for a run - again. I also went to a last-supper sort of deal for Tim, because Saturday was his last day in Colorado - he's going to work in Nebraska over the summer. We went to a Thai place, and had a lovely last lunch together. Then Allyson, Kate and I returned to Heidi's house and ended up discussing religion for a few hours with Heidi and her sister. Allyson fell asleep. :) I invited them all to the Mormon dance that night. I dropped Allyson off at her house, and then picked up Tyler. We watched A Study in Scarlet. Then Heidi came by for the Mormon dance, and at the last minute, we decided to invite a set of brothers that we know from school to the dance. Heidi also knows them from running. Ariel says I should call the older one Bill Clinton and the younger one Ralph Nader. They both have strong political opinons, and apparently Bill Clinton does a really good... well, Bill Clinton impression. Anyway, we had a ton of fun at the dance! There was one kid who knew the entire "All the Single Ladies" dance, which was amazing! After we took Bill Clinton and Ralph Nader home from the dance, Bill Clinton told me that a song he had recently written was actually for me, which was really sweet of him. :D

Sunday
My entire family had to speak in Church. Ariel and I spoke about the meaning of life. My mom spoke about prayer, and her talk was really good. My dad spoke about fasting, which was also really good. My dad said the official good-bye to the congregation for us, and I totally felt like we were the VonTrapp family from the Sound of Music. He mentioned that we wouldn't be seeing anyone from the congregation for a long time, and it totally sounded like Captain VonTrapp's speech right before the family runs away after the music festival. A lot of people said they liked our talks, which was good! We then auf-wiedersehen-ed, and had a family meeting where we planned the rest of our week. Then Mr. Bingley came over to watch The Blind Banker, which was good fun. After he left, I went hiking with my family, thus furthering the Sound of Music parallelism.