Back from the weekend with a few new "skills"

So . . . I finally took the 2 minutes needed to figure out how to upload pictures on this thing. Here's a few shots from my weekend.
Photos:
Top - me taking my first shot (under the coaching of Sarah's brother). Check out that form!
2nd: on the dock
3rd: on the train tracks down the bank from Sarah's house
Last: Sarah's parent's cool almost-100-years-old house (with Jill in the foreground)


I drove up to Spokane on Saturday to see friends (Jody, my former roommate, was visiting from Colorado, so I wanted to see her). We had a blast hanging out at Sarah's apartment (which I called home during April and May) catching up with each other's lives, watching "Fun w/Dick & Jane," eating tacos, etc. Later we went for a walk and learned how to smoke cigars - I don't really know the story behind it, but Jill and Jody had some promise involving smoking cigars together - so we fulfilled it. You know, kind of like a "peace pipe." Anyhow, I don't think it's a habit any of us will be picking up. Even if it did taste good (I'd much rather have a Slurpee, thanks) - the mouth cancer and reeking of cigar smoke would far outweight the positives.

We returned to Sarah's apartment and couldn't figure out why we kept finding crickets jumping around on the carpet. (Sarah just got a pet lizard, "Duh Dragon," but it had been several days since she had fed him crickets). The next morning (at church), we were informed that the crickets were actually placed by humans - repercussions from a saran-wrapped car prank the girls had performed the night before I came. Maturity was running rampant this weekend, as you can see.

After church, we (me, Jody, Jill, Sarah & 3 of her siblings) all packed into Jody's borrowed "soccer mom" van and took the two hour drive to Sarah's parent's house out in the boonies (they were beautiful boonies, though, as the pictures above prove). We spent the rest of the day eating a wonderful steak lunch, getting to know Sarah's fun family (she has 6 siblings), wading in the lake and learning to shoot (from Sarah's brothers). We got back into Spokane around 8:30 and I said my goodbyes and hopped in the car for my three hour drive "home." I wasn't super rested when my alarm went off this morning, but it was worth it. Good times.

P.S.

Hey Jody - if you're reading this: Spell check wants me to change "Jody's" to "god's." Hmmm.