The Frenchies

*The following post get's put in the category of waitressing moments*

Today Pizza Factory was quite steadily busy. I like days like this. I was just minding my own business doing my job when I got sat a table of eight. I went over to them and right away I knew something was different with them. They were French! And only spoke French! This was going to be interesting! I asked them all if I could get them something to drink. They all wanted water, they requested their water be "plain water, no gas, no ice, no bowl." I interpreted this as "regular water, not carbonated, with no ice, in a glass." And that was only the beginning of our language barrier adventure. I took their waters out to them just as they had requested and they started yelling "wee wee" I was very happy that they were happy with my interpretations. Now it was time to order food. One lady looked at me and pointed to the pasta sauce list and said, "tomato?" I answered, "marinara." She smiled and said, "for me, spaghetti with tomato, small." The next thing I knew I was being bombarded with about five people shouting "me too! me too!" OK, so about four or five orders of "1/2 plate spaghetti with marinara." I can handle that. One man ordered a "mene" (mini) BBQ pizza. One man ordered a, "no meat calzone". One of the ladies wanted a Caesar salad. Her and her friends trying to decided how to pronounce Caesar was probably one of the funnier moments! That one took me a while to figure out! And my favorite man out of them all had to have a "big spaghetti with tomato and meat" my interpretation, "full plate of spaghetti with meat sauce."
I put their order in the computer, and when it came out I took it out to them hoping I would get "wee wee's" so I knew I had done it right. Gratefully, I did! They were all very happy with what had come from their great ordering skills!
But, that's not the end of it. If you've ever been in PF in Cedar you know that there are stained glass windows with pictures of our food. The bread sticks are hard to miss! My favorite guy saw them on the window. Pointed to them and looked at me and said, "what?" I responded, "bread". He said, "bring." I said "one bread, one dollar." He held up his pointer finger and his thumb and said "two." I said "OK." "wee wee's" filled the room once again as I took out their two bread sticks! By then they had devoured their whole meal. Everyone was very happy from what I could tell.
As they were leaving I think all of them held my hand at one point and said "Merci" I said "you're welcome" and they all smiled! My favorite guy came into the back, found me, handed me a five dollar bill, said "merci" and shook my hand. He was adorable!
Pretty sure they made my day! I like those little traveling french people. If all my tables that I have everyday were as nice as them I could handle the language barrier with no problems!

No Matter What The Weather...

It happened! There was no yearbook signing, no BBQ celebrations, no after school pool parties, but school is out all the same! And I survived! Aimee and I decided that we needed to engage in some celebration of the end of school. So this is what we did...
A couple weeks ago we were talking to one of our friends Rhett who was leaving for the summer. He was saying how he didn't see Aimee very often. So they made a bet that if they didn't see each other before Rhett left then Aimee owed Rhett Subway, but if they did see each other before he left then Rhett owed Aimee Subway. So we decided that since yesterday was the last day he was in town we should most certainly invite him to lunch... and of course we were craving Subway! Aimee and I arrived at Subway first and Joe and Rhett joined us quickly after. Rhett's first reaction was to try not to see Aimee. That didn't last long. So of course Aimee won the bet because we are so wise! And we got to eat lunch with them, and that is always oh so fun!
Jensy Poo called and invited us to go thrift store shopping with him. We had never been in a thrift store before! The clothes, and jewelry, and kitchen stuff were all OK, but what really got our attention was the BOOKS! We found this book that we decided to start reading... on the floor... in the store... It was kind of interesting, about WWII. We decided we wanted it, but all we had was Aimee's debit card, which meant that we had to spend $5. The book was only $2. So we went on a search! We ended up with: our book, a picture frame, another chapter book, a piano book with little kid songs in it that we had never heard of before, and Passport to Paris yes, the Mary Kate and Ashley movie!
Our next task was to watch our new movie! We sat on the floor, ate Doritos, and sour gummy worms. We had some interruptions in our movie watching though. We filled Rhett's cooler with ice, took Becca to get some lunch, picked Maddie up from school, and rellowcated (relocated) to Aimee's basement, Brian joined us and we were able to finish our movie.
If you don't already know, I am the new FHE coordinator in my ward. There's two of us in charge of planning the activities for the summer. We had a meeting yesterday and I think it was very successful! If anyone has amazing ideas for FHE activities I would love to hear them!
When Aimee and I have a day of celebration we always want to leave town and do something fun that we don't do everyday. We decided that in order to do this we wouldn't be able to go very far because she didn't get off work until eight. So this left us with the option of Parowan! So it was, we went to Parowan to get milk shakes! MMMM I got raspberry, she got cookie dough! They were delicious! It was such a good little get away! We're going to start doing it more often!
When we got back into town we knew we had to go say goodbye to our friend Jeff who is graduating and moving up north to get a job and continue his life. Jeff, Aimee, Carl, and I used to have a tradition where we would go get breakfast burritos at midnight. So, we took Jeff a burrito! He was very grateful! We talked to him for a while, he told us all about his day. He had just got home from a terrible date! If you want to know details I can tell you later. But just know, it was horrible! Oh the dating stories we take with us throughout our lives! We're sad that Jeff is leaving, but I guess that will just give us an excuse to go to Provo!
Yesterday was such a good way to start off summer! My friends never cease to amaze me! I'm ready for summer! It's going to be full of many new adventures! No worries, I'll keep you all posted!

"they say that california is nice and warm this time of year"

Mandy lives in Elk Grove, California. Trever, Janelle, Jon, and I live in Cedar. Nobody's quite sure where David lives... haha :). So for spring break we very randomly decided to go visit Mandy. We left Cedar Saturday night and drove all night long until we arrived in Elk Grove on Sunday morning/afternoon. We were all exhausted. I even got to attempt to sleep in the car the whole way and I was tired. So I can't imagine how Trever and Jon (the drivers) felt. So as you probably assumed, Sunday consisted of sleeping, and going to hang out at an elementary school. Swinging on swings, roller blades, the usual.
Monday morning we were all happily rested, bright, cheery, and ready for an adventure! San Fransisco we were on our way! We decided to make a pit stop on the way and take a tour of the Jelly Belly factory! No worries, we got to taste Jelly Bellies in every stage of their lives! The factory was fun and educational. I felt like I was in Elementary school again on a field trip! Oh how I miss those care free days! Okay guys but honestly I LOVED SAN FRANSISCO! Pretty sure it's now one of my all time favorite places ever! We got to walk around the streets for a while and look at the houses, and some interesting shops. I loved everything about that place! Janelle and I even sang the "Full House" theme song while we were walking around looking at all the adorable houses. We went to this place right on the bay that was called Fisherman's Warf. There were so many cute stores and plenty of candy shops! I wanted to go in all of them! As some of you may know, I have an everlasting love for pearls. I have always wanted to "pick my own pearl" like pick the oyster and just hope a good one is inside. Fisherman's Warf was full of these places! It was a dream come true! Two little oriental ladies were working at the one Trever and I stopped at. They were trying to give me advice on which kind of oyster I was supposed to choose to get the best results. The only problem was that we couldn't understand what they were trying to say. I finally picked one and the lady that was helping us showed us a little ritual that we were supposed to do before she cracked it open. So we did her ritual and she popped that sucker open and there was my pearl! Ah! I loved it! It was so perfect! China Town.. yup, we went there! It was very... interesting. Probably the highlight of walking up and down that street with the Chinese people surrounding us was when I was purchasing some stuff and I really wanted to try to bargain with the guy to see if he would sell it to me for cheaper than he had listed. So I put on my best Chinese accent and kindly asked him if he would sell the items to me for $3 all together! He kind of got this confused look on his face and said, "no". Dang! ok, I tried again because I thought maybe "no" meant that he didn't understand me the fist time. Again he said "no." So I gave him my money and left feeling very unsuccessful. I also thought it was so cool that Chinese people had graffiti... in Chinese! Mandy's amazing father bought us all dinner at The Cheesecake Factory that night. It was delicious and we were very grateful! On our drive home we got to drive by the Oakland temple. It was stunning!
Tuesday was dedicated to Sacramento. Mandy's dad owns a hotel. We got to tour it. It's exquisite! We went to "Old Sacramento" this place is so cool! This is what happens, you walk through a tunnel from "New Sacramento" and all the sudden you're in "Old Sacramento"! There were a lot of little shops that we went into, and again, candy shops! :) There were horse and buggies taking people around the streets! There was also this Subway (modern day) that had a true sandwich artist working there! She made sandwiches beautifully. Jon and Trever were very impressed with her sandwich making skills! I think if they owned subways of their own they would have offered her a very high paying job on the spot. On our way home from Sacramento we got to stop and visit Mandy's grandma. She was adorable! Honestly that woman had so much energy! And she collects frogs! You wouldn't believe how many frogs this lady has in her house! She was such a sweetheart! Tuesday night Mandy, David, Janelle, and I were able to go to the Sacramento temple to do baptisms for the dead! We had such a good time! The temple was so pretty! I'm so glad we got the opportunity to go!
Wednesday we made T-Shirts! Mine was orange! And I'm not creative! :/. But, it didn't turn out too shabby. I actually quite liked it! We had to go buy all the supplies and believe me, it was not easy to choose the colors that we all wanted. But we managed to choose some and took them back to the house to decorate them. All of us girls left the decorating tables with really cute shirts! The boys had very... abstract shirts :). We had a good time decorating them though and I got to let me creativity, or lack of it get a breather from the rock I had been hiding it under. We took an outing on Wednesday, around Mandy's neighborhood. I got to ride the bike! I bet we looked so good on our different means of transportation riding around the neighborhood. So there's this place close to Mandy's house that has trampolines everywhere! Yup, you guessed it, we went there! Probably the best part of that place was that we got to jump off a trampoline into a foam pit! Oh my goodness fun! Problem 1: Trever hurt his knee :(. Problem 2: Okay there wasn't a problem 2. I liked it there though. We had fun playing dodge ball, jumping into the foam pit, and trying to literally run up the walls!
Unfortunately Wednesday night, around midnight, we started heading back to Cedar. It was another long drive that we had to endure. Lots of music, snoring, and driving. Okay, so if anyone was snoring it was me, I think I actually got a fair number of hours of sleep on the drive home. The trip was so much fun! We had a blast! I would go back in a heartbeat.
Oh wait, I am planning on going back! :)

I just want to also add some stuff that didn't really fit into any specific day but these things totally completed the trip!
1- Trever getting so annoyed at songs that we would hear over and over again on the radio
2- Mandy the cow (like really though, it's a cow)
3- Breakfast burritos and tacos prepared by the wonderful Mandy and David
4- Mandy's mom's dinners, MMMMMM
5- In n' Out! You just can't beat it!
6- Jon eating subway at 3 o'clock in the morning
7- Veggie straws.. no matter what I still like the tomato ones the best!
8- Dog food flavored jelly bellies
9- Me getting make up on Trever's shirt cause I could not stay awake during sacrament... sorry :/
10- The theater room!
-And one of my all time favorite moments-
**Getting locked out of "the shop" and Trever taking the door completely off so nobody would have to climb in through the ten thousand foot high window!!**

There's No Other Word To Describe The Feeling Of...

SUNSHINE! Straight from the sun itself! Today was, might I say, gorgeous! Sun was shining the grass was green it was like a real spring day was upon us. Living in Cedar, that doesn't happen often at all! "The sun doesn't work in Cedar." So that my dear friends is why I'm so profoundly grateful for this day!

*My Waitress Moment Of The Day*

So this elderly guy came in to eat by himself tonight. I seated him, got him a drink, and took his order. Just like I would anyone. He got his food quickly, and wanted to pay for it right when I took it out. I thought okay, no biggie he's probably just in a hurry and wants to get out of here A.S.A.P. so I let him pay and then just went on minding my own business. When he got up to leave I was standing at the front counter probably with some blank, staring off into space look on my face. He came right up to me and said, "You know what?! When You get home tonight tell your boyfriend that he has very good taste in women." Now I know what some of you are thinking... creepy old guy hitting on me right? But, I am going to take a compliment when a compliment is given. He made me smile!

"The COMPTROLLER Made Me Do It!"

Who is this comptroller fool? And why does he have a "p" in his name? Today kicked off the beginning of finals week! Talk about stress major! So to start the dreaded week Aimee and I had an economics final this morning. While we were so abruptly cramming every piece of economics information into our brains we came across the word comptroller. Whoever decided to call someone the "comptroller" was wrong.
Finals also means grub is in order. Since the only thing we had to work with was the institute vending machines this is what we came up with. 650 unneeded calories and 180 grams of fat, which really only equals out to be 20%. But unfortunately, like I stated earlier, it was unnecessary.
But on a much lighter note, our studying payed off and we both feel very very good about how we preformed during the duration of the test. I honestly feel as if I knew about 90% of the questions for sure, and the other 10% well, let's hope I'm a good guesser! :)

Bring on the rest of the week! I'm ready!

My Undying Wish To Be A Blogger...

Ever since I was a young tyke... OK, so really more like a couple months ago... I have had this desire deep in my heart to start a blog! You see, this whole obsession started when I became a blog stalker! Everyone was making blogs, and I liked reading them. My largest fear is that nobody will find my life as interesting as I find everyone else's. So even if you do think I'm boring, moody, tiring, repetitive, or just plain unexciting I would still love you to pretend to follow me, or even drop a comment in every now and then! You know, for self esteem reasons!