this shouldn't surprise you but on friday, we had an early adventure for the weekend since our saturday was already planned for us. we went to dinner.....me, darin, j, annie and dave adams. we decided we wanted chinese food and j said there was the best place in burke called tau taus. well she was right. it was very good and it would have been a fabulous dinner except for the part where dave and i decided to eat a hot pepper and we had to chew it 17 times. it was so bloody hot. i thought i might pass out, this whole not resisting a dare thing is getting to me (note to self: do not accept dares involving food). nothing helped with the hotness, not rice, or water or sherbet or wiping my tongue with a napkin. i just had to wait for the horribleness to abate. at least i didn't suffer alone because dave had a hard time too.
after our fun little dinner, we were going to watch a movie but that seemed too mild for a friday night so we decided to go on a night hike instead. to great fall national park. dave insisted that he knew where we were going and since we are idiots, we trusted him. we started out at around 10 and made our way to the falls around 1:00. it was very dark but here is a picture of what we could have seen if it had been light out. it was a fun hike but there were times that we were sure we were lost and where we forged our own trail. it was mostly pleasant for all of us but sometimes dan would be a little angry. we sang at the top of our lungs all the songs we knew by heart and walked and walked and burned our corneas with the flash from j' s camera. dan decided to leave us after the hike and the trip to the sev to get some slurpees. then all was smiles and laughter and hugs and rainbows (for emily). 
on saturday, we slept in after out hike and then we got up and went to a bbq at the church for elder's appreciation. it was a good barbecue and beautiful weather. saturday night was laid back. we went to panera for dinner and then watched a movie. yesterday after church, mark and i went to difficult run where we had started our hike on friday. a few weeks ago, mark wanted to find a swiming hole and i made fun of him for being so naive and thinking we could find one in the metropolis of dc. well....we found one and so we went swimming a little and then we were freezing the night away until we blasted the heater in olive and my face turned purple from the heat. ahhh sweet bliss. this is what happens when i say mark can be in charge of the heater and he really takes a liking to the warm air. it was a good weekend.
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Speaking of the swimming hole at Difficult run...Remind me to tell you the time we saw a cottonmouth eat another snake in that swimming hole and then the snake got into the water with us....and that was the end of us swimming there.
as usual, your weekend was much more eventful than mine.
and keep your eyes peeled...in the days to come you will find another post on my blog that will be very interesting to you. okay - it might be in a week because i have to get to a scanner, but nevertheless, keep your eyes peeled. but don't use a peelotta, it might cause permanent damage.
them peppers ain't nothin, honeypie. and it surprises me that there is nothing about your pepper-eating half-Thai brother on this blog of yours. c'mon.
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