Summer Summary

Catchy, isn't it? Well, it has been a great summer. I got to make a lot of money at 3M (wheee) and have fun times with my friends and family.
Last week my family and I were in Montana on our family vacation. (The pictures are up on my photobucket account, you can find the link on the right side of your screen.) It was basically like Colorado, except not. That's really the only way I can explain it, unfortunately. We rented a cabin halfway between Bozeman and Big Sky in the Gallatin National Forest. It was great fun. We did some hiking, some whitewater rafting (Megan fell out once...oops!), some shopping, and even some horseback riding. I took probably around 200 pictures there, so I was pretty busy with that. While we were there, I read the combined effort of Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti, House, in less than 9 hours. Yes, it's that good.
After we got back on Saturday, it was super-fast-packing-time for me, since I left two days later. I packed for a while that night, went to Kayla's house for awhile, and packed some more. On Sunday, my youth group went to ValleyFair, an amusement park in Shakopee, Minnesota. It was loads of fun, except for the whole getting really wet on water rides thing. That, not so much.
And most importantly, behind getting to spend a whole day with Kayla (YAY!), we recieved a new motto in life: "Don't Poke The Bear."
Explanation: We rode one of the old wooden rollercoasters there called "Excalibur." It was kind of out of the way, in the back of the park, so not many people were there. The operator who has to give that mundane safety talk (arms and legs inside at all times, etc.) decided to be a little more wacky with his speech. This is a quote from Kayla's facebook profile:
"Will the next victims please step forward, fasten your seatbelts and pull down your lap bar. If you don't have a lap bar, that's to bad. Just hang on tight. There will be absolutely no laughing, screaming or having fun on this ride. If you do, you might wake the bear. If you do wake the bear, we ask that you do not feed the bear, do not poke the bear, and do not look directly at the bear. If the bear begins to charge, we suggest that you stop, drop, and roll."
Yeah. Don't Poke The Bear!!!