Driving Rain

That was a pretty frightening storm last night. I mean, it wasn't that loud or anything, but the tornado warning freaked us out. But ah, the main fear was when we drove through it. Do you recall that I mentioned we were going to dinner with the cousins? Well, we met them at a restaurant in Thorntown, why we traveled 45 minutes just to eat dinner I do not know, and we left around 8:15. As we were leaving the restaurant it was raining, and guess what, a tornado warning siren was going off. So we get to the car and turn on the radio trying to decide what station to listen to for weather, while overhead the sky is gradually darkening. Now it was pouring and we were driving along, getting scared and all that, and it starts to hail. Big loud hail. By this time mom was calling my Aunt Gloria in Zionsville to see if she could check the weather for our area. Instead, our cousin Harrison picked up, he said she wasn't there and checked the weather online for us. So, now the hail had stopped and the rain had lessened a bit but it was still very dark and ominous. We now knew from the radio that the storm was coming southeast and that in Boone County and Marion County funnel clouds had been seen. Great. We were in Boone County. GREAT. So we were in front of or in the midst of a big storm and we were traveling east trying to get away from it. Then my Uncle Hugh(husband to Gloria) called back and it started to hail and rain again so we pulled off. Keep in mind, we're in ruralish Indiana and it's just us, some other cars, and the occasional passing barn. The hail stopped off pretty quickly so we pulled back out and kept going. Most of the trip it was like that, rain/rain and hail/less hail/less rain/more rain again/hail again, and so on. Also, look to the north and it wasn't too bad, just a bit cloudy and darkish, there was even a small bit of blue sky every so often, but look to the south and it was dark. Dark and gray and scary. So then what do we do? We turn south on 421. And guess what, more rain and hail. The rain was so loud and threatening, slapping against the side of the car while the hail smacked the roof. Finally when we were getting closer to home, I'm thinking, "okay so we're good, we're almost there". And then we hear the report that Southeast Hamilton County has a tornado warning. Now wait a minute, that's where we were headed. So instead of going further into a storm we turned on 146th rather than 116th. Anyway, we eventually got home safe and sound after that, if not a little frazzled. We all went straight down to the basement of course. When we turned on the weather and saw the radar we realized we'd driven right through the storm. Fun. Of course, there was only one report of an actual tornado touching down and that was in Lapel, which is what, like 20 miles away from us. Now let me say, this story does not do our little car ride justice, we were really panicking what with the wind and rain and hail and the shaking car and the fact that sometimes we could hardly see thanks to the mist and darkness. What an ordeal.

But now it's sunny out and nice today, and I'm going for a walk. ^_^

Cherries and Sprite

The school year has ended and it's finally summer, I am so pumped! I feel so free! So what are you all planning to do with this glorious summer? Personally, I just want to make sure I don't waste it. Many summers I have spent worthlessly lazing around accomplishing nothing. Nothing. It's a shame really. This time though, I'm going to do as much as I can. (or at least I'll try) We'll see how that goes. I'll definitely be working in a lot of swimming, it's nice to have the pool open again. I'm looking forward to lots of art and sewing and that sort of thing too. Even though our last day of school was just Thursday, it feels really good to have all this free time finally. ^_^ Today I had a truly painful migraine in the morning so the first part of my day was spent in a dark room trying to sleep it off. Luckily that subsided in the afternoon so I headed outside and lounged in the hammock for awhile in the sun. Nice. I also did my nails, it's actually been awhile since I last painted them. Anyway, I have to head off, we're going to dinner with my cousins and I need to catch Spencer so we can gel his newly shortened hair before we go. ;P

In This Infinite Universe

The sun is shining bright and happy through the window into an otherwise dark office. Today is a good day. It's spring and everything is green and happy, we have only 5 school days left to attend, I took the core 40 exam test for algebra(which I was stressing out over) yesterday and today so now that's finished(turns out it wasn't too bad at all), and the only thing I have to do tonight is study for two tests tomorrow. Yay. I'm so extremely excited for the end of the school year. Hurrah! Of course, my days will lack structure and it's unlikely that I'll accomplish anything of importance over the summer other than art, if that even, but that's the point of summer right?

And now:

Nature From The Pastel Cabin

The camping trip was quite successful. We had campfires, went hiking, and did this adventure course tower activity that involved a rock climbing wall, ropes crisscrossed with a rope net at the top to climb up, and some other climbing courses. In all it was a lot of fun. On the hike we went to see a hollowed out tree that a turkey vulture had laid her eggs in. There were some feathers and two pretty blueish eggs with brown speckling on the ends. Very cool. We also saw a lot of these red birds with black wings that were about the size of finches. We couldn't figure out what species they were so I just looked up the description and I'm pretty sure they were Scarlet Tanagers. One more bit of nature we found was a luna moth sitting on the railing of the camp's main cabin area. It was fairly interesting to get to see, even though it didn't move at all for most of the day it was a very pretty little creature. Anyway, the trip was great and we had many animal sightings. Also, I stayed in a cabin that was painted a pleasant yellow on the inside, while some other girls in our troop were in a cabin that had an interior of light pink with a dark peptobismol pink trim which was a bit overwhelming.

You Want Toast With That?

Well, I'm off to go camping in half an hour. We're going to this weekend camp thing along with some other girls in my Girl Scout troop. I hope it doesn't rain, or if it does may it happen overnight. I'm looking forward to going because we're doing this up in the air rope obstacle course thing, so that should be fun. I'll be sure to post how everything turns out when we get back. Which, by the way, we get back on Mother's Day unfortunately so my mom will have to wait till next weekend for breakfast in bed. In other news, I have a band concert coming up this Tuesday. Also, track is over. I don't miss it all too much. Anyway, I've got to go help in loading the car now.