Moab

I had a lot of fun in Moab. Everyone said happy birthday to me about 10 each throughout the day, it was funny. (I went with my Singles Ward FYI.) We meet at the church then got into cars and left. We stopped at a park on our way in some town that starts with a W... I don't remember the name, and ate lunch. Then we went to the Red River Adventure in Moab and hopped in buses and went to the Colorado River. I was put on a raft with some pretty interesting members from my ward and they came up with a team name for us; Jasmine's Misfits, because it was my birthday. Our guide's name was Kyle, he was so funny and it was a blast to raft with him. One of the girls brought this giant squirt gun so the boys were squirting all the people who got close to us. Mostly they were squirting the duckies (those are the people who were on the 2 people kayaks). We pulled up to an island, ate our dinner, had a devotional, then pulled out our sleeping bags and slept under the stars. So funny, the Bishop was reading this letter form the father of the boy who passed away in the ward the night before, and everyone was on the verge of tears when we said a closing prayer; then the Bishop tells us that we can stay around the fire or go to bed and one of the girls stopped him and told him that everyone needed to sing Happy Birthday to me first. So the boy sitting in front of me turns his light on me so everyone can see me and all I can see is the light. Then after the song they wanted me to give a speech about what I have learned form my life... I was laughing so hard I could barely talk, then Adam finally turned his light off and everyone stopped looking at me. It was really funny.



The next day I woke up at about 5:30 because I am a really light sleeper and some of the other girls were moving around. I did get to see the sun rise while all the other girls went back to sleep and buried their heads in their sleeping bags. It was so pretty. I did end up waking up everyone who was still asleep when breakfast was about to start because I looked at the pillow sitting next to me and there was a huge spider on it about to climb on my leg. I jumped up and landed on the sleeping bag two spots away and was brushing off the spider that wasn't really there, needless to say everyone heard me scream and most saw my funny dance. Then we ate breakfast, packed up camp, and jumped back on the river to continue our adventure. I was the only one to actually fall in the river, but one of the duckies did tip over. We hit this huge rapid and the raft went one way while my body did a back flip off of it. The people on the raft were able to grab my life vest before the second rapid hit me. It was terrifying and fun at the same time.

When we were done on the river we dried on the beach then ate lunch. Then we hopped back on the buses and went back to our cars to drive home. I was able to take a little nap on the way home and sing along to Wicked, it was amazing. It was a fun birthday and a fantastic experience. When I got home I showered, threw all my clothes in the washer, and went to my friend's birthday party. That was an interesting party and I had a lot of fun. We made an interesting smoothie it was hilarious. It was quite the weekend.