Apricot Picnic, Rodeos, Horses and ATV’s
I pretty much had one of the best weekends of my life last weekend. I went to Payson to be with my boyfriend, and it was like a mini vacation.
Saturday morning, we went to this little Cafe where everything is all healthy. I mean, we even had a spinach and quinoa salad with brocoli with our breakfast…it was delicious! After that, we decided to go to some health store and to Beals and Family Dollar. (Keep in mind, Payson is a small town where their only “mall” has ONE clothing store (Stage) where honestly, it’s not my cup of tea when it comes to clothes. Beals is like Ross…like a smaller, ghetto Ross. I haven’t hit up any of the Boutiques yet, but I’m not very hopeful when it comes to clothing choices up there. I will definitely be making frequent shopping trips to the valley when I move up there).
After we got home, the ATV’s were out, and we got to drive them for a little while. I didn’t do too bad considering the last time I drove an ATV was in 2003 when I was 12 and I crashed it into a fence. We coudln’t drive them for too long because we were about to leave for the rodeo.
This was my very first rodeo. It was so much fun! I feel like my country girl side of me is finally coming out! When I was little, I wanted to be a cowgirl. I had cowgirl boots and I wore them everywhere and with everything. Unfortunately, I don’t have any cowgirl boots now, but I got to wear a hat. It didn’t really fit my head becasue of my little bun on the top of my head, but I wore it when I could. I felt like everyone there was looking at me. Like, they can tell I am a valley/city girl trying to be a country girl…some girls just glared at me! some girls looked like skanks, and others just looked like your everyday cowgirl. Then you had all the people wearing Horn Porn shirts…I didn’t know what to think of that haha.
Sunday morning, we went to Mountain Bible Church…it is a great church! And we both left there feeling like the sermon was exactly what we needed. It was a good service! We can see ourselves going there as a home church after we are married…it’s exciting :) Afterwards, we went to Basha’s and we bought some stuff for lunch. We bought a Rotisserie Chicken, Velveeta Mac’n’Chees, and some Broccoli and we fixed it up at home and then we had a little picnic! At Tim’s house, they have a garden. In the far corner of the garden is an Apricot Tree, and under the tree are two chairs. Tim brought out a small table and we had our lunch under the Apricot tree :) It was lovely. So peaceful and beautiful, just talking about our future together and our present. The food may not have been the greatest, but it was yummy none the less. I will never forget that moment.
Afterwards, we took a short nap and then decided to go four wheeling again! Except this time, we had more time to do some off roading. This guy trusts me so much, he let me drive, even though I kind drove us into some tree brances haha. It was so much fun though! I haven’t done that for so long, it feels so good, like an adrenaline rush kinda. I am a bit of an adrenaline junkie, actually…I loved it! :) After that, we decided to get the horse set up so we could do some horseback riding. There was a slight injury in the process, but nothing horrible. Even though he got hurt a little, he was still nice enough to finish setting up and getting me out to the field to ride. It was so fun! I love horseback riding. The horse was a little stubborn…she did NOT want to be ridden, but she is good, she didn’t try to kill me or anything haha. It was so cool watching him ride too. He looks so hot…like a cowboy! haha I love it! :D
As I was getting ready to leave (it sucked so much that I had to go, like, everything was perfect, and I had to leave!), I noticed something amazing! As a side note, when you see the sunlight through the leaves of trees on the ground or on the wall, you are looking at an image of the sun. The sun is a circle (or sphere), so the light coming through is shown as a circle when you see it through the leaves. Well I noticed a little earlier that those images were in a cresent shape. I had a lot on my mind and I knew there was something segnificant about those cresents but it didn’t phase me. Those cresent shapes that I was seeing through the leaves was the sun…there was a partial solar eclipse and it totally didn’t phase me! I finally realized it when I was in my car about to leave telling Tim goodbye. But let me tell you: it topped it all off. I got to see my first Solar Eclipse, with a stunning sunset to end such a stunning weekend.
I had the best weekend with my man. This Thursday (May 24th) will be 9 months that we have been together. I can’t wait for our future plans to unfold and for more adventures with him. He is my best friend, and I couldn’t ask for a better man to be by my side. <3
