A Break

Well, it has almost been a week since spring break ended, but due to popular demand and many requests from The Wolfgang Story band wagon, I am writing another blog. As you could probably guess, I am going to write about spring break. And not just spring break the whole break, but spring break the last few days, including Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, but excluding clips from each day.

8:00 Thursday Night : The Grocery Store --- After realizing that I had yet to pack any provisions for the camping trip, Amberblee stopped by and picked me up to go to Smith's Marketplace. We roamed through the isles and gazed at thousands of items of food. Luckily, even though so many foods were calling out to me, Nutrigrain bars won due to the fact that they were on sale! One box of nutrigrain bars, check! After that, I was pretty much stumped as to what to purchase. With such a wide variety of foods, which food would really fill me up? Cereal? No, not practicle for a camping trip without milk. Frozen pizza? Nope! Say goodbye to that extra thin crust! Then, on the end isle, sitting sheepishly and looking at me as cute as could be was a bag of blueberry bagles! Yes! This is what I had been waiting for! These bagles would lift me up to a new level, set me on a pedistool above the common man. Now, shopping was over. Time to head h ome and pack right? Wrong. If you have forgotten, Thursday was the first day of March Madness, so accordingly, I spent the rest of the evening watching that.

11:00 Thursday Night : My Room --- The games now over, and my realizing that I had to wake up in three hours, I decided that packing my belongings was a grand idea. It started with clothes and ultimately ended up with the packing of pad, pillow, and sleeping bag - sleeping bag case included! That was an exciting part to the story.

12:00 Midnight Friday Morning: My Room --- Time to go to sleep. And Amberlee's birthday! Happy Birthday Darlin'!

2:00 Friday Morning : My Bed --- Multiple alarms go off at decible levels uncommon to wake up to. Frightens me half to death, then I realize I need to get up and shower so as to smell and look nice for the day. And did I ever smell nice! I was complimented multiple times on it. Thank you Irish Springs!

2:30 Friday Morning : My Porch --- I walk outside with all my gear in hand when not thirty seconds goes by and Amberlee pulls up in her sweet Purple Chrystler. She is quite possibly the most punctual on time person ever. Its amazing. I put my gear in the car, say hello, say happy birthday, and we hit the road for Provo!

3:30ish Friday Morning : Provo Mainstreet --- Amberlee heads the wrong way to find her sisters apartment. We turn around and come back. We are lost. Amberlee almost runs a red light as we search for her sisters apartment and has to slam on the brakes and the car wheels screech. About a minute later, Amberlee runs a red light. We find her sisters apartment and help her pack up the car, where we stash our "crack" A.K.A. Chex Mix. Shhh. We hit the road again after a brief stop off at the local grocery store.

4:00 Friday Morning : Mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon --- We drive past giant windmills. They are awesome. We discuss why there is a red light flashing on them and how many birds die from flying into them. This concept confuses me but seems perfectly logical to Amberlee and her sister Kristi. Why not just fly above them?

4:30 Friday Morning : Spanish Fork Canyon --- We almost hit a deer. Kristi states she will go to sleep in the car so that she can take over for Amberlee and not fall asleep while driving. Kristi wakes up every five minutes to check on Amberlee to see if she is awake and doing alright. I sit in back and laugh. The moon looks awesome. Kristi and Amberlee switch driving, eventually arriving at Green River.

6:20 Friday Morning : Green River --- I drive to Arches while everybody else sleeps.

7:20 Friday Morning : Arches National Park --- We arrive and pull up to the visitors center in order to try and obtain a camp site. We are not the first hopefull people, but about the sixth. At seven thirty, they open the doors and announce that only the first three groups will receive a camp spot. Disappointed, we head back to the car and eat wonderful bran muffins. We sit in the car for a rather long time not really doing anything. Amberlee's phone happens to move around the car mysteriously. The car is already a mess. We decide to go and find a campsite after filling up our water bottles. Here is where the real problems arise. Instead of filling up our water bottles, we decide to leave the park, though not intentionally. As we are about to leave, I comment "weren't we going to fill up our water bottles?" The answer is a resounding "yes!" and so Amberlee attempts to reverse back into the parking lot. This is hysterical. Other cars wait as we try to maneuver about the lot backwards. We fill up our waterbottles and decide that its time to leave for camp. After about fifteen minutes of Amberlee making fun of me for just about everything I do, we finally leave Arches. But wait! We cannot find our ticket to get back into the park! We search the car, emptying seats and the trunk. It's nowhere to be found. Confused and aloof from coherent thought, we just sit there not sure of what to do and laughing from tiredness. We decide to check the bathrooms and anywhere else we had been at the visitors center. Kristi finds it in the orientation room where we had watching a most thrilling version of protecting cryptobiotic soil. So with a new found energy for finding a camping spot, we leave Arches!

9:00 Friday Morning : Williams Bottom Campground --- We find a beautiful, hidden little camp ground that would keep us in our own little world out in the wilderness, but there is only one problem: it is occupied. So the girls send me out to ask if it will be available that night. Using all the charm I can muster up I asked the man at the campsite if they will be spending the next night there also. He says no, and that we can take it in a few hours when they pack up. What grand news! Now we have two hours to go on a little hike or do whatever we would like. We decide to go look at old dinosaur footprints in the rocks. That was pretty cool. Everybody likes dinosaurs. At this time we also decide to throw rocks at cacti and across the road. Amberlee almost hits a few bikers. I throw I giant rock at a cactus and it smashes it. We all laugh. Take that cactus! Remember eleven years ago when you put spikes in my butt? Yeah, well so do I. We then move on to another hike because that didn't take so long. As we get there, we start hiking and there are a few people in front of us. The guy turns around sees us, looks forward and then does a quick double take. He turns to me and asks "Did you guys get the campsite?" I sit there a minute confused as to who this man is, but I realize its the guy that I had talked to earlier! We have a quick team meeting and decide to finish the hike because it's still early morning and its a gook hike. Now, I don't know if anybody knows this, but Amberlee is fond of creating nicnames for people. She already has a few for me. Well, while we are walking having a good time, Amberlee casually asks "Hey, Colin, can I call you CB?" I think for a minute of all the possible things this could mean. I can't seem to come up with any sort of meaning behind it. Then I hear laughing from Kristi. "Cactus Butt!" she says! And then it hits me! Amberlee has been telling her sisters many facts about my life, especially the embarrassing ones. I cannot believe that she thought of that before me. In fact, I was so shocked she even knew about it that I could barely utter out an objection to the nic name!