As soon as I sat down to write this I heard 2 fire trucks blazing up the road beside me. Glad the fire alarm wasn't here! haha

Anyway, I got back up here last night. I basically just lounged around & hung out with some people until around 8:30 when I went down to chill with Lyuben on duty.
I wasn't tired at all last night, like usual, so I ended up staying up until like 3:30am, knowingly. What I didn't know until I looked at my phone, however, was that I had to wake up at 7:30 today for the Open House =[ Okay, so maybe I knew before... but it didn't even enter my mind after like, midnight haha. I probably would have tried to go to sleep sooner. So now I'm pretty tired, but oh well.

So, woke up, got ready, headed to the McBride house for some coffee.
I've never been awake this early, so it was kind of cool to see the fog rising over the ridge:


not cool enough to make me want to make waking up an everyday thing, but still awesome. plus, it was cold & I LOVEDDDDDDDD ITTTTTTT!! Now it's hot again =[ gross.

After my coffee I went over to the arena to help with check-in. Apparently we had 1500 people there... which I entirely believe. the arena was FULL.
When it was time for tours, I knew it was gonna be interesting. The tour groups were HUGE. GINORMOUS. You know how loud I am, & I think the people in the back still couldn't hear me. I felt bad. It was like unmanageably big. I did the best I could though, so I think it went well.

Now I'm gonna shower & do some homework until Ilinka & Cat come back & then we're doing something. dunno what.
I would be out right now, shopping, looking for a straightener, etc, but everything except grocery stores are closed on Sundays, so that's unfortunate.

In other news, that bulb has heated up Jesse's water =] He's swimming really fast like it's too hot... but it's not... but I've been ocassionally turning it off anyway. I'm thinking maybe just the change is getting to him since he's used to the colder water now. We shall see.

In other other news, the houses around here are always so cute with their decorations. This is one of the coolest things ever. It's like one of those boxes that the house near us puts those moving elves in, but it's painted to look like gothic & it's being dragged by a bunch of skeletons that are chained to it. yay!
this isn't the best picture because the sun was shining through, but you get the drift.