I'M....BACK!!!
Vacation was AMAZING, but boy am I glad to be home. Tons and tons happened, and this post will be long, but let's try and keep it a little bit shorter.
I went to Sterling, Virginia to stay in Algonkian Regional Park. Nobody's ever heard of it, but I've been there before (almost 7 years ago), and it is a wonderful place to stay. You stay in cabins in a large park with a golf course, and a humongous swimming pool with waterslides, a water fort, and lifeguards who really know what they're doing and don't get distracted at all (that's why you hear about 700 whistle tweets per 30 minutes because they always catch someone if they're running or doing some other dangerous activity around the pool). It's a beautiful park. Try researching it online for a vacation idea.
I visited my older brother Billy, his wife Sue, and my nephew Ryan; and my older sister Lisa, her husband Heath, and my neices Meredith and Kelly. It's very, very odd to be an aunt at the age of 13 (especially because I have another niece, Erin, who's 19 and is in college, so it's REALLY weird to be an aunt to someone who's older than you!). Meredith is only 5 months younger than me, Ryan is 9, and Kelly is 4. My Dad likes to say, "Our vacation was %87 perfect and %13 Ryan." Honestly, we spent a lot of our time correcting, disciplining, and trying to deal with Ryan. Let me give you a brief description:
He is a rambunctious boy with a ton of energy and he absolutely DEMANDS attention. And not positive attention either: he gets it negatively. He'll hum loudly, sing loudly, make noises, and touch people like crazy until someone finally has had their fill and says, "Ryan, stop it!!!' And that's what he wants. He also denies reality: everybody hears him as he sings loudly to get attention. We tell him, "Ryan, please be quiet." And immediately, he cuts us off in the middle of the sentence (which he does a lot of too) saying, "I didn't! I didn't do it!" And everyone knows he did, but he never admits it, and he often puts the blame on other people. He also is very disrespectful, and has made nasty comments to all of us. He's even snapped back at his own grandparents (aka my Mom and Dad). Lastly, he is an incredible liar. Examples: one day, we were someplace where there was a piano, and he can't play worth spit, but he bangs on it anyway. Well, he just got done touching his dirty smelly socks, then he asks to play the piano. Meredith and I tell him no, not until he washes his hands. So he does, and we ask if he used soap. He says yes. We smell his hands. We smell no soap. We tell him to wash his hands with soap. He says he did. We know he didn't. We send him back and he FINALLY washes his hands with soap. Another example: he wanted to go to Chuckie Cheese's for pizza, but we went to Uno's instead. So he said, "Uno's pizza makes me puke and makes me sick." We ate there anyway. He loved the pizza, and it didn't make him sick. He's made such a bad habit of it that on the rare occasion that he tells the truth, we never know it.
Anyway, let's talk about the adventures: we found a huge snake by our cabins, which is kinda freaky, but kinda cool at the same time. I probably lost, like, 5 pounds because my super active sister made us walk 5 miles in one day (and I'm normally used to 1!). Washington D.C. was amazing, and I got to see the Capitol building, the document building which held the Declaration, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and such, and I saw the National Gallery of Art (which Dad absolutely loves). Watched the movie, "The Champ," which I didn't think was that good, but everyone else did. We played Dominos, Monopoly, and Pit about ten billion times. In 1 weeks time, I've written 4 more songs.
How about this for an adventure? One day we (me, my little bro, Mom, and Dad) ate at a Subway. While we were ordering our food, there was this pop and a whirring sound. It was weird, but we still finished ordering our food. Suddenly firetrucks and police cars started rushing into the parking lot. The Subway caught fire!! Everyone got out alright though.
Watching all the news about Iran going against Israel really is fulfilling prophecy. The rapture is coming soon, I believe, and I strongly think that it will happen in our age. Maybe even before I hit my 18th birthday. But who knows. We just have to be prepared and tell as many people as we can, because once we're raptured, we ain't gonna be here to tell them anymore!!
That's all. Headaches were S-T-R-O-N-G during vacation, but I enjoyed my time nonetheless. One night, I just got sick of it, cuz a lot of times I really want to give up this fight with my headaches, but I can't give up. It's not an option. I've been trusting God the whole way through, and right now, I really don't know if He's holding my hand and leading me through or carrying me. But it's getting difficult....but on vacation, one night, I looked into the mirror, and I saw that I glowed. I was shining God's light. You know how sometimes you look at someone and you can just see them glowing with God's light? I saw it on me.....made me very happy. :)
~*~Rach~*~
I went to Sterling, Virginia to stay in Algonkian Regional Park. Nobody's ever heard of it, but I've been there before (almost 7 years ago), and it is a wonderful place to stay. You stay in cabins in a large park with a golf course, and a humongous swimming pool with waterslides, a water fort, and lifeguards who really know what they're doing and don't get distracted at all (that's why you hear about 700 whistle tweets per 30 minutes because they always catch someone if they're running or doing some other dangerous activity around the pool). It's a beautiful park. Try researching it online for a vacation idea.
I visited my older brother Billy, his wife Sue, and my nephew Ryan; and my older sister Lisa, her husband Heath, and my neices Meredith and Kelly. It's very, very odd to be an aunt at the age of 13 (especially because I have another niece, Erin, who's 19 and is in college, so it's REALLY weird to be an aunt to someone who's older than you!). Meredith is only 5 months younger than me, Ryan is 9, and Kelly is 4. My Dad likes to say, "Our vacation was %87 perfect and %13 Ryan." Honestly, we spent a lot of our time correcting, disciplining, and trying to deal with Ryan. Let me give you a brief description:
He is a rambunctious boy with a ton of energy and he absolutely DEMANDS attention. And not positive attention either: he gets it negatively. He'll hum loudly, sing loudly, make noises, and touch people like crazy until someone finally has had their fill and says, "Ryan, stop it!!!' And that's what he wants. He also denies reality: everybody hears him as he sings loudly to get attention. We tell him, "Ryan, please be quiet." And immediately, he cuts us off in the middle of the sentence (which he does a lot of too) saying, "I didn't! I didn't do it!" And everyone knows he did, but he never admits it, and he often puts the blame on other people. He also is very disrespectful, and has made nasty comments to all of us. He's even snapped back at his own grandparents (aka my Mom and Dad). Lastly, he is an incredible liar. Examples: one day, we were someplace where there was a piano, and he can't play worth spit, but he bangs on it anyway. Well, he just got done touching his dirty smelly socks, then he asks to play the piano. Meredith and I tell him no, not until he washes his hands. So he does, and we ask if he used soap. He says yes. We smell his hands. We smell no soap. We tell him to wash his hands with soap. He says he did. We know he didn't. We send him back and he FINALLY washes his hands with soap. Another example: he wanted to go to Chuckie Cheese's for pizza, but we went to Uno's instead. So he said, "Uno's pizza makes me puke and makes me sick." We ate there anyway. He loved the pizza, and it didn't make him sick. He's made such a bad habit of it that on the rare occasion that he tells the truth, we never know it.
Anyway, let's talk about the adventures: we found a huge snake by our cabins, which is kinda freaky, but kinda cool at the same time. I probably lost, like, 5 pounds because my super active sister made us walk 5 miles in one day (and I'm normally used to 1!). Washington D.C. was amazing, and I got to see the Capitol building, the document building which held the Declaration, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and such, and I saw the National Gallery of Art (which Dad absolutely loves). Watched the movie, "The Champ," which I didn't think was that good, but everyone else did. We played Dominos, Monopoly, and Pit about ten billion times. In 1 weeks time, I've written 4 more songs.
How about this for an adventure? One day we (me, my little bro, Mom, and Dad) ate at a Subway. While we were ordering our food, there was this pop and a whirring sound. It was weird, but we still finished ordering our food. Suddenly firetrucks and police cars started rushing into the parking lot. The Subway caught fire!! Everyone got out alright though.
Watching all the news about Iran going against Israel really is fulfilling prophecy. The rapture is coming soon, I believe, and I strongly think that it will happen in our age. Maybe even before I hit my 18th birthday. But who knows. We just have to be prepared and tell as many people as we can, because once we're raptured, we ain't gonna be here to tell them anymore!!
That's all. Headaches were S-T-R-O-N-G during vacation, but I enjoyed my time nonetheless. One night, I just got sick of it, cuz a lot of times I really want to give up this fight with my headaches, but I can't give up. It's not an option. I've been trusting God the whole way through, and right now, I really don't know if He's holding my hand and leading me through or carrying me. But it's getting difficult....but on vacation, one night, I looked into the mirror, and I saw that I glowed. I was shining God's light. You know how sometimes you look at someone and you can just see them glowing with God's light? I saw it on me.....made me very happy. :)
~*~Rach~*~
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