Independence Weekend

For the three day weekend we left for Pullman, Washington to see Garrett, Valerie, and Tori!! This weekend was SO MUCH FUN!! I wish we all lived closer... someday maybe. I don't even have HALF of the pictures/movies, so this is just a snippet of what went on. It was a decent drive with beautiful rolling hills. When we got there we played Nintendo Kinect, which was awesome!! We got ridiculous photos and videos. We played on Garrett's Mac and made some more awesome videos! Watched some old high school videos Garrett has made, watched some OC, and talked and laughed all night! The next day we woke up and got ready to go to Wawawai Park. There we had some sausage dogs, played frisbee, killed multiple spiders (BAM! BAM! BAM!), played more frisbee, took pictures, and finally cliff jumping! While we were there I was able to play with Tori's hair on various occassions. I LOVE her hair, it's so pretty and silky all the time!! Lucky duck. Tori jumping off the 25-30 ft. cliff. (That was our guess.)
Brad's jump My jump, I was trying a karate kick thing
Garrett Valerie!! Everybody
That night we had some Delicious Chinese food!! Ah it was SO GOOD!! Sunday we had church, some scrumptious dinner, divine peanut butter oatmeal cookies, and walked around WSU campus. Their campus was beautiful, we also got to run/jump on their football field! So fun to have a real sports team! (Another highlight of the weekend: WEARING SHORTS!! BOOM BABY!!!) Monday we soaked up some more sun at Hamilton Low water park in Moscow Idaho. They had Fumbrellas, 2 water slides, and a diving board.

Tori karate chopping a fly. (Awesome fumbrella! haha)
This is called a Frog Dive, I learned it from a drunk man in Korea... It's legit, from this you dive into the water.
Brad and Garrett enjoyed throwing themselves off of the diving board. :)
haha it was fun to watch.
After the pool and getting clean, we went to one of my favorite Burrito spots in WA; Taco Del Mar!!! :) We arrived at Sunnyside park well in advance to claim our spot on the grass. We occupied our time by playing the card game Ligretto, people watching, talking, and checking the time constantly.
We love you guys and miss you all SO MUCH!!!
Finally at 10 o'clock we enjoyed the firework show!! They launched off a top of the hill in front of us, it seemed like they were right above our heads though and that the debris was going to fall on us. It was an awesome show!!
After the show we went back to eat Cookies and launch our own little fireworks. We had some bottle rockets from last year we set off. A lot of them were duds, causing us to get kind of comfortable with them. I tried holding one as it went off, but sparks started flying and it fell right in front of me, something sparkly was in my hair, I was screaming and it was loud. Luckily nothing happened, and I haven't found any burned hair yet! Brad and Garrett then implanted some fireworks into a toy pony head that we found by the dumpster. That poor little pony... destroyed! Thank you so much Garrett and Valerie for letting us stay at your place and taking care of us!! We're so glad you could make it too Tori, and the rest of the family- we missed you! We could have spent a whole nother week there!! haha, it was just so much fun and there is so much more we could do! :)