the sun in the trees made the skyline look like crooked teeth

being on vacation in middle of nowhere, west virginia has its ups and downs. it's unbelievably pristine here, every time i look out the window it's like someone stuck an oversized postcard on the frame and expected me to believe it was real. which is ironic, considering the postcards they do sell around here are incredibly tacky and ill-photographed.

there really is not much to do here, cayla and i (lauren) have been practicing pool, with me kicking her butt multiple times. today we took an adventure to the mountain with the ski lift. instead of just enjoying a nice trip up the mountain on the ski lift, my family somehow convinced me to slide down the hill in an innertube. doesn't that sound dangerous? because, contrary to popular belief, it really is. fortunately, i only ended up with a few cuts and scratches on my legs from dragging my tube up the hill to this little mechanism they conjured up to jerk you around and drag you up the mountain to the slide. cayla was not so lucky. not only did she slip like forty times while trying to drag the tube to the death pulley system, she continuously tripped at the top of the hill and while trying to drag her tube away from the slide at the bottom. she kept slipping at the top of the slide and just almost flying down before she was securely in the tube and the person that went down before her was safely out of the way. they guy hooking us up the up-the-mountain mechanism told her she "couldn't win for losing". conveniently, there was a very attractive boy working at the top of the slide who had pretty eyes and a jake gyllenhaal from october sky accent. inconveniently, he was not amused by my and cayla's clumsiness and jokes about "breaking the tubes". it was just an accident. anyways, we finally decided it was time to leave before cayla broke her neck, and as we were leaving she fell into a hole. there was nothing we could do.

england is out of the world cup which means cayla owes me money,  but fortunately brazil and also my boyfriend cristianio are still dominating. cayla and i are working on an insanely epic project that is sure to be insanely epic. here is a little hint:

cheers,
lauren