The End of it All

Song of the day: "I wouldn't mind" he is we
Hat worn: Yankees cap
Facebook status: ""I know your scared. But don't run. Don't ever run when your scared.""

I've got to say...at the beginning of this summer I wasn't expecting so much. In all honesty, I was kind of...sad that summer was beginning. I wouldn't see my friends from school as often. I knew my friends would be heading to college. I would have math tutoring too much and I barely had enough time for myself as it was with three trips planned. I wasn't expecting it to be so...huge.



Nathan with me at the
X-men First Class movie



I wasn't expecting it to be so wonderful. I wasn't expecting it to be so painful. I wasn't expecting it to be anything out of the ordinary. But it was all of those things. It was probably the most brilliant summer in existence.

 I will say this was the best summer until another summer comes along and beats it. But I doubt that will happen anytime soon. Although it may and I'll have to take this whole paragraph back. But I doubt camp will be better because the epicsause has left leaving it more empty.

Davey and Nathan (and Payne)
at Kings Dominion



For the first few weeks of my summer, at least until camp, I just got together with a lot of my friends and got to hang out. We went to Kings Dominion, an amusement park near my house. We went to the mall. We went to the movies. We went everywhere and acted like goofy teenagers, which I think is the best part about being a teenager. You can act like a goofy teenager, because no one expects differently from you! (Which is both wonderful and aggravating at the same time. Because they don't expect anything. At all. So its a pro and a con.)

I spent a lot of time this summer hanging out with Davey, who is in this picture to the left of these words. (Ooo complicated picture do-hicky-thingy-ma-bobs) He is the only guy who can drive me around which is pretty awesome because before I wasn't aloud to be alone in the car with a boy. Which was OK, if annoying. I understood the rule and stuff but now I can ride with Davey so it's easier to get a ride. I do get my licence in May though so that'll be helpful.



Kai and me



After these few weeks, I headed off to camp. Which I've talked about before. But I still get so worked up about it because it was just so...cool! I mean I had so much fun its insane. Ha! I miss Word of Life so much. I miss the people more. I fell in love. I fell apart. So actually, this was kind of part of "the painful part" of my summer. But it was also awesome!



I mean everyone needs a camp romance. And everyone needs to know they don't last. So my once in a lifetime camp romance has come and gone. It was good, but I'm kind of glad its over. Too much drama. Like I need more of that in my life. Ha ha! Maybe next summer. ;)



(Side note: I had this whole blog finished and it was VERY long and I pushed the publish button...and it somehow broke and messed up and deleted everything after this point. To put it lightly, I am slightly angry. OK actually, I'm infuriated! It was really good too... so I'll try to recreate it as best I can. But right now I'm emotionally spent from writing so much. So it'll probably come across really dry.)



The team from teens who worked with
our group during VBS and at the concert

 About two weeks after camp it was off to Canada. Prince Edward Island more specifically. I had so much fun there. It was interesting...I spent almost two weeks with the same nine people. I'm closer to each of them in very strange ways. Ha ha! That long in a house with thirteen people and one bathroom. Interesting.

I met so many people there too that I'll be friends with for eternity. Literally. We'll all meet up again in heaven and hang out, praising Jesus. It'll be awesome! Sherlyn and [censored name of Hungarian spy] were so kind to put up with us for that long. We were loud, obnoxious, annoying, and we almost broke a lot of their stuff...that last one was mostly me. I got injured a lot. A lot, a lot!

I learned on that trip that I shouldn't complain too. I complained so much on that trip and I am ashamed of how I acted. I acted like a baby. I have no excuse either. I hope in the future I can be better and not complain, because if it annoyed me, it must've annoyed everyone else a lot more! Ha ha. I hope they still love me.

Bethany, Melissa, Bethannie, and Me
at Burger King on the way back
from Smith Mountain Lake sporting amazing
hats

After PEI (prince edward island) I left on a trip to Smith Mountain Lake in northern Virginia. We spent a week in a lake house with my family and three friends. Bethannie, Bethany, and Timothy. It was a fun week, but it was slightly overshadowed by the fact I was wondering the whole time if my mom had cancer.

Yup...that would be a downer. Ha ha...ha...ahem.

She doesn't have cancer by the way. She's fine.

But we did have fun laughing, dancing, singing, watching TV, swimming, tanning, and boating. I did learn a great deal about dealing with naive people and about how to talk to girls. Apparently I'm not that good at it. Even though I am one. Ha ha!

After that I spent the rest of the summer up to this point hanging out at home, sleeping, reading, trying to write, shopping for school, and eating. It's been much less exciting.

But I've had the coolest summer ever. I think I'll always look back on this summer and think it was the best. But it wouldn't have been without a few people who were always there when I needed them. They MADE this summer for me.

Vito, Davey, Logan, Abby, Laura, and Melissa.


I'll never forget you guys. I can't. Literally. I'll see most of you in  few days. But thank you so much for making this the best summer for me. It's been amazing. Let's make the next one even better, k? I'm already looking forward it. Ha ha!

Till my drivers ed teacher stops singing,

Adeline Taylor