Ain't you never seen snow on palm trees?

Hello I'm back!! It seems some things got mixed up in some people's heads while I was gone, so let me just clarify them.

Mlle Mi: It's nothing you don't already know. It's just the fact that he put an earing on/in (??) his ear, and all the girls I expressed my feelings with shared the same ones.

Collin and really everyone else: No, I haven't stopped blogging. There might have seemed a lull maybe for a while, but only because I was gone to St. George from Thursday to Saturday. Oh no, I'm definitely not done with blogging. Not for a long while, I hope.

So I was about to say that I'll come back and tell y'all about my fun time in St. George, but heck, why don't I just tell you right now? So we left Thursday morning in snow. We watched "A Cinderella Story" and "Pirates of the Carribean" on the bus ride down, and that made it go by really fast. We checked into our hotel rooms, which was really an "inn," with the doors on the outside (hehe that was a lot of fun!). Some girls were upstairs, and some girls were downstairs, but it was WAY fun, and we all visited each other a lot. And in the lobby, there was all the free hot chocolate you could get! The "inn" was right next to Denny's and JB's, so I'm pretty sure I've eaten at Denny's enough to last me a looooong time, and so has everyone else.

We had a game Thursday night against Dixie High School, and they beat us (Varsity and JV), but that's ok, because it was our very first game, and Varsity did really good. Lol, JV...um....it's so boring in JV haha NOTHING gets to the outfield. Meh. So anyways, the weather was nice that night, with just some wind, but nothing major. We were all hungry afterwards, so we drove EVERYWHERE looking for a place to eat, but as Fieldstead said, places like St. George just like to close everything up at 9pm sharp. Nothing except fast food was open, bleh. We walked from place to place to place until we finally found an Iceburg. That was good.

Anyways, the next morning, we woke up, and what to our wondering eyes did appear was...SNOW! Snow, in St. George??? What?? Unheard of!!! Here's another one for you, Ripley. Snow on palm trees. It made me laugh so hard!! Our tournament ended up being canceled, and we could have packed up and gone home right then, but we decided to put our money to good use and stay the full time. We went bowling, as Fieldstead said we would if we didn't have any games. That was fun, and we had the pleasure of having a baseball team grace us with their precense there. Afterwards, half the girls went to the outlets, in blizzarding snow, and the other half (including me) stayed at the hotel. We ate, and then we...SWAM!!!!!! Mmm mmm that hot tub was SO nice! There was steam everywhere, even from the pool (which wasn't so bad!). A neighboring baseball team was swimming and we played "football" in the pool for a little bit. Those guys were hot, but definitely not my type, a lot because they had naughty mouths and were just meh. They left, and we played a little football of our own. We swam forever, with steam coming up off the water and the sun going down...oh man it was AWESOME! Sometimes, there was so much steam you couldn't see anyone around you!! We were getting out right as the other girls were coming back, and lame, when we all finished showering, the other girls had gotten into the pool and GUESS WHAT?? A boys soccer team had just arrived, with their rooms all right next to ours, and what did they do? Go straight to the pool, where the other half of our team was swimming! Grr!! They mostly sat in the hot tub, the boys on one side, the girls on the other, some in with bathing suits, some standing in jeans lol. We all talked, we threw a squishy softball around, we were SO bored, those of us who had already swam. Anyways, coach wanted us in our rooms an hour early because he didn't want us talking to these boys too much--that's the very kind of thing that could get these trips canceled. Oh boy, how true it is. He was really mad, because apparently some girls had given out cell numbers and room numbers. Because guess what...

On Thursday, a girl from Orem High School got assaulted in her room for that very reason. She went swimming, and when she was done, her key card was missing. That night, a baseball player had gotten into her room and would have raped her if it weren't for her other teammates/roommates that fought him off. That's scary, and coach was really worried. What made me mad was that the girls weren't taking him seriously. They just couldn't understand the seriousness of the situation, and it made me SO mad, how, when he left after forcefully talking to us and telling us to go to our rooms, they just sat there and "Oh my gosh blah blah blah..." URG!! I'm pretty sure they all think it's fun and games right now, but when they actually do get caught for breaking the rules or even worse, like what happened to that Orem girl, we'll see who has the last laugh. I definitely know that I'm not going to just flounce around the rules on a hotel trip with the school ever again. I've gone through enough to last me a lifetime.

The trip was really fun, although it was very disappointing. This was a trip for softball, and we only got to play once. This was my first time down to this "Sunshine" Tournament, and I never got to experience it. Next year will be my first, and it will be my last. I am glad, though, that I was able to get a lot closer to the girls on my team, which is really good. I had a lot of fun, and I just can't wait for next year!!!

That's pretty much it, sorry I'm not that good of a story teller. What do you expect, I just got off the bus! Don't worry...I'll work on those skills later. Anyways, I missed you all, and I thought about you a lot. Love you tons, and come to my games!!!

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