Crazy Busy Weeks

This past week my sister Maren came out to visit and see the sights... And we've been having fun. We spent 2 days roaming around New York City and seeing all the sights. We went to the Empire State Building, and spent some time in Central Park where she was totally scared of getting killed... :) silly... She also didn't want to go near the East River or the Bronx or Queens... dang Law and Order....

We went on a ferry over to Liberty and Ellis Islands. The statue was so pretty and huge! We did the audio tour which was really interesting. We climed the 167 steps to the podium... which was funny because on every landing it counted down the steps ... it was funny...

Then we went to Ellis Island and walked around for hours looking at everything... We had gotten about 3 hours of sleep and had had to get up and out of the house by about 4:15am.... to get to the ferry on time... So after hours of walking around the Liberty Island and hours of walking around Ellis Island, we decided to go in to a 45 minute movie they had and we both fell asleep... it was a great show... :) it was a good power nap. :)

Then we went back to Manhattan went to Time Square to see a show. We saw one called 'Rooms, a rock romance' it was good and pretty funny. We went out to eat at some fun places and were exhausted when we finally got home late every night... it was great.

After that weekend I dropped her off at a phsyco woman's house for an 'apprenticeship'... which is a whole other story... probably the craziest of them all...

So the next weekend I went and picked her up, two weeks early, and brought her back to my house. She wanted to spend the weekend in NYC and I had plans already so she went there and I went to spend the day on Saturday at West Point with some friends we'd made at AWE. It was such a good time. We got there around 2 and went to meet everyone at the dock. We got to take a boat trip up the Hudson in the Superintendent's boat. It was beautiful and there were lots of people there.

Then we played some ultimate frisbee and football, and had a BBQ on a big lawn. We got the grand tour of West Point campus which was beautiful! So old and big and ... beautiful... I think it's definately my favorite of the schools I've seen so far.

It took a couple hours to do the tour and it was awesome! It was dark by the time we got back so we were hanging out making smores when the MPs and a firetruck came by and put out our bonfire.... :) that pretty much killed the party so we headed home.

Next weekend I get to spend the day in NYC at the temple there for a banch temple trip and hopefully going to see the new X-men movie... (which I've actually seen and it's REALLY good)... :) Fun times all around!!