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last night was WAYYYY fun! we had a bon fire at lyndsie's and it turned chaotic but was oh so much fun! it all started by brian and lyndsie finding random sticks and deciding to sword fight. i was cringing a little when wood started splintering... waiting for the moment our first aid training would be employed. it came soon enough: lyndsie's arm and brian's finger. so we cleaned them up while lyndsie's dad started a fire for us. as he's walking away he looks at me, sara and katie and specifically says "girls, don't let those two kill each other." "ok, mr. marsh... we'll watch them. it'll be fine." uhhh.... yeah... it was fine alright. somewhere along the line... very shortly after mr. marsh left, we started talking about bruises and lyndsie and brian mentioned they don't bruise easily. so what came next? they started punching each other in the arm of course. odd i know... but highly amusing. they continued that for a while, but eventually it spilled into the yard and turned into a wrestling match with lots of mindless laughter. katie and i got up to watch more closely, we're curious people ya know, and brian dove at my legs. mind you, it was dark out so i barely saw him coming. now... i've got two brothers so i'm not entirely helpless, so i wasn't about to let him just take me down. no no... i put up a fight, but uncontrollable laughter makes me considerably weaker. shortly thereafter katie got taken out, and after a while sara got involved too. it was mostly 4 girls against brian. he held his own pretty well... but i think the adrenaline and stupid humor of it kept him going for most of it. i'm sure he's sore today. i'm not sure how long we all wrestled, probably about an hour, but we ended up as a grossly sweaty pile of people laying in the middle of lyndsie's back yard using brian as a pillow because i think we had finally worn him out. it all sounds incredibly strange, but it was more fun than i can possibly express. i haven't laughed that much in a long time. my clothes were very grass stained and i've got bruises on my hips, arms and my shoulder... but i'm sure that's minor compared to brian or lyndsie. if you haven't guessed... we're a really close group of staff and we're pretty darn comfortable with each other. it must be the nature of our job has made it possible to bond so closely. i love it.

so today... today was hot. oh so hot and humid. mid 90's. i picked raspberries from 11-1 today, 2 1/2 gallons of them, and i got sunburned! i'm rather shocked. i'm really tan and haven't been really burned once this summer despite the numerous hours i've spent in the sun. but today must have been special and my back is quite toasted. that's what i get for wearing my swim suit. but it's all good because after my picking we went to the lake and had a jolly time. the boys and i had fun messed around and doing childish things. brendon and i mastered some sort of double back flip thing in the water where my legs were around his waist and we flipped backward and i would pull him around with me and i don't even know, but it was cool. ethan didn't have the skills. he didn't go limp enough so when i was underwater i'd have to yank him pretty hard with my legs to make him follow me or i'd never reach the surface. this sounds confusing... nevermind. this is the end of my story for now because i've determined that i'd like to go to bed. ta ta