Lateness

I realize this post is late, and I am sorry for that. We got to DuPont on Friday night, and it's pretty nice. Smaller than Rolla, I'm afraid, though. More details later. I'm going to catch you guys up on my trip with pictures later, but I can't now, as I'm posting from Miles' house. He is now officially not just a cyberfriend. We went to church on Sunday, and the ward was nice. The only bad things was that there were only 2 other deacons, and though there were 5 girls in my Sunday school class, NONE of them were pretty! It was a disaster.

Schlitterbahn Pics

I am on my dad's laptop, where all the pictures are stored, so I may show you some Schlitterbahn pictures. Feast your eyes on the equivalent of thousands of words. I apologize for the type on the bottom on the post, as opposed to the top, but I am a picture uploading rookie.

The GSWWFV Stops 1 and 2

Stops 3 and 4 have happened, but people are waiting for the computer and i'm tired, so I'm going to post those at a later date.

We drove down to Texas from Missouri (such a long drive...*shiver*), and arrived at stop number one. The Parker's house. The Parkers are the children of my Aunt Becca, who is my mom's sister, and Uncle Dane, who is not. There is Alexis (Lexie), 16, Ryan and Brittany (twins), 14, Kylin, 12, Julia, 10, and Cameron, 7. We got there Thursday night, swam in their pool, and then slept. Ryan was on a scout High Adventure until Saturday Afternoon, so we didn't see him till then. On Friday we swam alot, and watched at least 2 movies. On Saturday it was much the same, except for I made a GIANT batch of cookies (like 160, not an overexaggeration at all) with twice the amount of vanilla needed. Needless to say it was great fun. I think I set a PR for rapid movie watching, having watched Mummy, Mummy 2, Taken, parts of The Game Plan, and X-Men 1, in 2 days.

On Monday we said our goodbyes (NNNNOOOOO! Why couldn't they come to Schlitterbahn with us?!?!?) and went to Schlitterbahn, a waterpark that has been voted best waterpark in the world 10 years in a row. On the drive there we bought wannabe rashgaurds for the boys, thus succesfully saving 4 torsos worth of sunblock. We got there and, after getting tickets and applying sunblock, split into our groups and left. The groups were- Mom and Luke, and then everyone else stayed mainly together. We couoldn't do the whole park in one day, but we tried. My favorite ride was the Master Blaster, but I only went on it once, as there was like an hour and a half wait in line. My overall favorite type of ride were the tube chutes. You'd get a tube, and ride down a relatively narrow path that would twist and turn and have waterfalls and rapids and overall awesomeness. Mom didn't really get to experience like any of the rides, because Luke has issues with tubes (a traumatic experience with the Parkers). All in all, Schlitterbahn didn't live up to my expectations, but that's because its impossible to meet expectations that have been building up for 5 years. It was a very fun experience though, and one I was glad to have had.

The GSWWFV

The Great South-Western Westhoff Family Vacation (GSWWFV for short) begins! Tommorrow! Today was my last full day in Missouri... likely, EVER *sheds tear*. We begin driving for Texas tommorrow. Some stops on the GSWWFV are Karlsbad Caverns, Schlitterbahn, the very well known Parkers' house, the equally well known Mangums' house, Las Vegas, Disneyland, Seaworld, the Judd and Debbie Rackham's house, the Grand Canyon, and the Great Sequoia Redwoods. Sounds fun, huh? Seems rather roundabout for a drive to Washington, but time flies when you're having fun. Unfortunately driving isn't fun. Everything I mentioned should be though.

The GSWWFV-
We're not driving to Washington.
We're vacationing there!

Humor

I have had a request from a friend for a post that is funny. Apparently he's 'dying' for it. Sadly, planning out something funny and then posting about it is just not my style. Said friend lives in Washington and has yet to experience what IS my style of humor, which is undescribable. I think he may need some confirmation that I am, indeed, funny (at least sometimes). So if you live in Rolla or Whitefish Bay and think of me as someone who is a funny person, please comment and say so. Feel free to also include your description of my style of humor, if there is one. My standing with my Washingtonian friend depends on it! If none of you do, I might just get depressed. And who does depression hurt? Everyone. My TV said so.

Babysitting

Today Mom and Aunt Laura decided they wanted to go shopping. So they dumped all the Westhoff kids and the only Rackham not at school over here at Grandpa and Grandma's, and left me in charge. Things have been going fine. So far I think the only quarrel they could have with me is that no one has eaten anything healthier than a potato chip. Ah well, you win some you lose some. No ones dead or crying, so that sounds like a win to me. I have to go play Hide-and-Seek with Christian (Youngest Rackham, very soon to be 3), Luke, and Chase now. Duty calls.

*Sigh*

I get it, I get it, you're all mad. I know I said I would post but when I got around to it they packed my computers, then I came to Wisconsin where I've been doing fun things with cousins and never got around to posting. I haven't responded to any emails either, so you individuals who email me can sleep soundly tonight knowing that I didn't just randomly decide to start hating you. I'll try to respond to emails from now on, but if you've sent one and it hasn't been responded to for a long time, sorry. I did read it though, just not respond. Sorry folks of Rolla (and 1 of Washington). I know you're life must have been horrible (jk) without knowings the current going-ons, but I've been distracted. We got up here the Saturday after school ended in Rolla (May 19), hund out with our cousins until the next Friday, where Dad left to do 'outproccessing' and took Dunn with him because he had a High Adventure campout. The rest of us will be heading back this Saturday morning. For all you Rolla folks, we will be back at Church on June 7. I'm posting this from my Grandparent's, who moved up to Wisconsin from Utah recently, computer. It's a big screen Mac. Pretty sweet. But so anyway, the Big South-Western Westhoff Adventure to Washington doesn't start until we leave Rolla for Texas, when that will be I don't know. I'm not going to post the specifics of what fun I've been having with my cousins. If you really want to know and you live in Rolla, ask on June 7th. If you want to know and you don't live in Rolla, you're probably gonna have to live with it.