There's something about Dead Week that makes you want to study your brains out but at the same time makes you want to do anything but homework. It's some weird psychology thing I think. So here's what happened this week (sorry there's not much photo evidence of it):
Monday: honestly, I don't really remember what happened on Monday but here are some random selfies that I took that day for your viewing pleasure. Moving out of Snow #208 next week is going to be the most bittersweet thing ever.
Tuesday: Allie and I had our last mission prep class with the coolest ex-mission presidents ever (Brother & Sister Greene), I got my Alaska flag in the mail (thank you Amazon Prime), then the power went out in our building, and Allie and I had a pretty brutal Fight Night.
My body hurt pretty bad the next morning.
Wednesday: On Hump Day, I just wanted to go and do something crazy so after watching Abbey's Swing performance (and trying to learn Timber but epically failing and just getting stepped on), I made Allie and Ashly drive through Logan Canyon with me so we could jump in Bear Lake at midnight. Looking back on it, I don't know why I thought this was a good idea. It was 31°F outside and so obviously the water was going to be freezing. Oops. So I called my Biggie (because she jumped in Bear Lake a few weeks ago) and she told me about this marina that had a small pier on it that they jumped off. So we climbed over the fences and passed all the "Do Not Enter" signs and had decided that we would just run into the lake by running down the boat ramp. It was freezing. Not as cold as the Polar Plunge at the cabin, but it was way cold. So we ran in until the water was at our belly buttons and then we ran back out and wrapped in our towels. Then I thought it would be lame if I didn't jump fully in the lake (I think my adrenaline was going a little crazy right then) and so I tossed my towel on the ground and ran to the end of the pier with Allie and Ashly trailing after me. We decided that Allie and I would jump and Ashly would get it on video. So I jumped. Allie didn't even though I threatened her. It was freezing. My limbs just felt like heavy logs and I was swimming as fast as I could to shore and then I had Allie and Ashly huddle around me to keep me warm #deadweekdecisions
Thursday: Allie and I have been trying to go to the temple everyday in April and so we decided to do a little road trip down to the temples in Ogden & Brigham City and then come back and do the Logan one after that. At home, our temple is Rexburg and that's like an hour and a half away and so to drive a little less than an hour and be able to go to three temples is so crazy to me. Go Utah. Allie, Ashly, and I stopped at Dairy Queen between Ogden and Brigham City so that was another blessing. I am so excited to live in the same town as Dairy Queen soon (aka home). We pulled into the Logan temple parking lot around 7:30pm and when we went in, all the seats were full and there were people standing along the back wall too. The "greeter" guy (I have no idea what his official title is), told us that they didn't have enough time to fit us in and do baptisms before the temple closed so we had to leave. It was way sad, but we will be back tomorrow.
Friday: Allie and I got up at 6am to go and do baptisms in the Logan temple (to continue our April streak and make up for not being there yesterday), then it was my last day of classes for the semester which is so crazy because I feel like the semester just started. Time flies when you're having fun/drowning in homework and projects. After class, I went to have a library party with myself for six hours while I finished my last English paper ever. No more English classes for me! Which is kind of sad because usually my A in English makes up for my other classes like Chemistry and Stats but I am so excited to never have another persuasive research 3000 word whatever due again.
Study hard out there kids.
I'll be home on Wednesday!
PS look at the bags under my eyes haha
Love, Caitie
