day 13: screaming and slapping

today i went on a hike called "camelback". it's one of the signature hikes at fitness ridge. we hiked along a lot of sandstone and reached a deep decline into a bowl-like shape. they call it "the vortex". it's pretty intense to get in and out of. ed was on my hike again, since he's in my hiking group. i absolutely love him. we spent the last two days together and i can't wait to visit him in brooklyn.

breakfast was two pancakes, eggs, and turkey sausage. after breakfast i went to stretch, and then i went to cardio intervals. stretch today was one of my second favorite stretch classes i've taken. cardio intervals was a great workout. it seemed to be a pretty easy friday morning.

lunch was a mushroom soup and a tostada salad which was absolutely amazing. the tostada salad was two small tortillas that'd been crisped in the oven, topped with beans, lettuce, soy cheese, red onions.

after lunch i went to zumba twice! zumba was much better this week. so much more exciting, so much less woo-ing. i skipped the last class of the day, which would've been a pool class anyway, to go to the tennis courts with kateri. we played tennis in 110 degree heat and afterwards we rode over to the "splashpad" which is basically just a bunch of sprinklers for little kids. we probably shouldn't have been there.... but it's fine.

a bunch of us skipped dinner tonight and decided to get sushi after graduation. graduation was long and boring. everyone was crying. a lot of people said wonderful things, but most of the speeches were way too long and ed wasn't there to make me laugh. the only good part was the raffle drawing. i took a survey last week that was supposed to take 5-10 minutes, but it lasted more like 15-20 minutes. it was pretty tedious and i wasn't really feeling it. i took the second part of the survey today, and they entered my name into a raffle. there were a bunch of prizes you could win: a polar watch, a pedometer, a 2L full sized camelbak, a jumprope, and a water bottle. i thought for sure i wouldn't win anything but i walked out of there with this beautiful blue camelbak! at the end, sione did a tribal dance he used to try out for the biggest loser with. it was pretty funny.

after that, ed and i went to get sushi at a different place than everyone else. he's a pretty intense person but i absolutely love him. we get along so well and i laugh so hard my stomach hurts when i'm around him. he bought me dinner! everyone is so kind here. we barely ate anything. we split a seaweed salad, two rolls, and a small bowl of cold glass noodles. we couldn't finish anything except for the seaweed salad. i guess that's kind of awesome, and means my stomach has shrunk quite a bit!

when we got back i met up with natasha, annie, and shanelle in my room. ed came to join for a bit. shanelle had videotaped sione's dance so we let ed watch it. he calls sione a beefcake and is always wondering (loudly) why he never takes his shirt off. all ed had to say about the video was, "he calls that dancing? it just looks like screaming and slapping".

i'm gonna miss a few people this week but mostly i'm just excited to be heading into the third week. only 12 days of working out left really! i'm going to be so sad when kateri goes home. i'm already miserable that shanelle and ed are leaving this weekend.

excited about my new camelbak, even though i already have a cute tiny one.
goodnight everyone. miss you all.