Katie's Blog: I'm Just Sayin . . .: Why is it called the Fall Fest if it took place in September?

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Why is it called the Fall Fest if it took place in September?

This is a really old post that I started a long time ago, so I felt it was time to unveil it to the Blogger World. Woooooo!

On the same night as my ward's talent show, the BYUSA (The student association) put on the annual "Fall Fest". I went with Cortney, Rachael, Josh, and Jeff. It was way fun! There was food, games, inflatables, laser tag (even though we didn't get there to do it!), a dance, and much more! It was nice just to get away from homework (or..attempting to do homework..hehe), and hang out with my friends!

During the dance, Jeff (the one with the brown hair) said that he hates when people take pictures while dancing because they never turn out well. Coincidentally, he is the only one who looks somewhat normal in either of these pictures. Maybe next time I want to look good in a picture, I'll talk about how bad that particular picture always turns out ;-)

As I mentioned, there were inflatables obstacle courses at this thing! I went through once, and went against Cortney, but then I deemed myself official photographer for Jeff and Josh's competitions because they kept fighting over who won. These are a couple of their crash landings..haha. I believe Jeff won this round!

After the dance we sat around on a hill for awhile just trying to decide what to do. That, in itself, was pretty exciting. I thought this was kind of a cool picture, just cuz his shoe looks freaking intense in the air right there!

Rachael fell down the hill. I wasn't able to get it while it happened, but she so kindly reenacted it. I believe, that in the process, she fell again. Oh how I love her.

So later on, we decided to take some jumping pictures. Classic, I know. These are just some of my favorite ones that turned out (Since I was the only one with a camera, I'm not in any of the pictures, which is fine, because I am definitely deficient when it comes to these types of pictures...Well, not that any of them were that good ;-) )

After we got bored of sitting on the hill (and me scaring off some poor boy..haha that's another story though!), we went back to my apartment for ice cream! I wasn't really in the mood for icecream, so I ate grapes. Creamery grapes are so good!

Josh was so nice and cleaned up all the dishes from the ice cream everyone ate! I'm supposed to make him dinner one of these days...lol

Here's those delicious grapes I was talking about. I'm looking beautiful as usual. Rachael tends to enjoy making faces in every picture she ever takes. She's pretty special, I'm not gonna lie. We have communications together, so there is definitely never a dull moment in that class (especially when we are talking about people and don't realize they are right by us..hehe) Audrey was trying out one of those delicious mint chocolate creamies. Thanks again for Cindy for discovering those!

Don't be shocked by these next pictures. I am at BYU now. But seriously, the Creamery is just asking for pictures like this when they sell Martinelli's sparkling cider. There was some serious effort that went into getting that bottle open...What a fun night though. Never a dull moment at BYU!!!!!!