Off the Wall

So it was Memorial day weekend when my Uncle y I headed to Portland to set up the Double Bounce y the Rock Climbing wall for the Rose Festival. Monday morning we set the wall up on the water front. The rain was drizzling and we kept slipping y sliding around. After we had finnished that my uncle drove back to Grangeville y I decided to spend some time in Portland with the family that I had there.
I met my cousin at his girlfriends house for a BBQ that day. We sat around talking y playing games. I was the oldest one there by far, since everyone else was about 17-19, well my cousin is almost 21. He left me with all of these kids that I had never met before in my life after a couple of hours to go see a movie with his girlfriend. Well I ended up going to another BBQ with the youngins that night, while also playing a round of Mini golf y finnishing off the night watching the "Man Who Knew to Little."

I talked y hung out with a girl named Steph that night and actually the next day also. First impression of her was, she seems nice y she would be fun to hang out with. After driving around with her all morning Tuesday, I wanted to shoot myself. She turned out to be completely out of it. I haven't met someone that crazy in a long time. I kept trying to find a excuse to get AWAY from her. I was saved by my cousin y her family. I had Steph drop me off at Amie's (cousin) house y I said, "Well, see you later".
Within a couple of days we started the 10 day gauntlet of working. Let me describe the workers that we had for the 10 day show.
Me: Well, ya'll know that I'll work hard y keep working no matter what.
Aunt: She's a hard worker.
Tara: She is a 15 year old girl that I wanted to slap so many times. She was on her cell phone more than she would talk y work with others. I almost broke her phone.
Nic: Was the gay kid whom my aunt y uncle knew. The first thing he told me was he didn't like little kids or talking to stangers. (Why did he work with us? I have no idea!!!)

Miranda: She's a girl that has forgone her morals y likes to party now a days. She snuck out one night to meet up with a friend from around there. I acutally caught her y gave her 30 min to get back to the house or I would have awakened my aunt. I was pissed.

The festival was fun. I met some of the coolest people ever. I made really good friends with some people that made Indian food, so they fed me about every other day for free. My aunt is a good friend owned something called "The Big Shot". It Basically is a huge sling shot that will launch you into the air (250 ft). We also had our pictures taken with a baby tiger. All in all the show was alright for us, but once we left Portland, I was so happy to get out of there.

Cherry: We arrvived in Emmett ID 2 days before the show was supposed to start, so we were able to spend time with my Grandma in Middleton before it started. Well all I can really say about Emmett is that it was super slow y super hot. Our second day at the show I was jumping a girl named Ileah, she ended up kicking me in the face on her way up. Let us say, that through that moment I met her sister Ashley. I ran the 2 mile fun run at that race y sucked it up. I ran a 12:37, so not to bad, but I took 4th.

Well we had a week off inbetween the Cherry festival y Dairy Days. I didn't go home to Grangeville because we were headed right back down to the same area 4 days later. I decided to spend time with Ashely in Emmett y my grandma in Middleton. Ashley has now become one of my really good friends. I mean it's the first person in a long time that I can actually talk to y not have the fear of being judged. I'll write more about her in another post.

Dairy Days: It was also another HOT weekend in ID. I mean it was only 95ish both days. We didn't have many people come to the show, so we pretty much sat around y read all weekend. I did finnish The Count of Monte Cristo. It was a good book.

Well the Title is a hint that I am done being a Carni. My Aunt y Uncle sold their business y I am now out of a job, y I am coming home here real soon. Pics are coming.

How you get there

Last night my family y I watched a movie entitled, "The King of California". I had heard a lot about this movie from a dear friend. He was correct to tell me that the movie was worth watching and really really funny, but it was the message that stuck with me that made the difference.
It's a movie about a Dad y his daughter on a treasure hunt in California. Charlie tells Miranda that it wasn't about the gold, but the adventure was important.
This is how I would explain my adventures with my good friend. We decided that everyone was in a hurry that they are missing the excitement in life that they could all have. People are to stressed out with work, money, school y family. Those are all great things to worry about, but if you do not slow down every now and then, you're not going to enjoy life.
A couple of months ago, Desperado y I drove a Uhaul from Seattle to Provo UT. We stopped at anything that seemed interesting to take pictures, little restaurants to eat in. We enjoyed life y the drive home. 2 weeks later we drove to Southern Utah for fun. We spent the whole afternoon exploring little one street podunk towns. We've had a lot of adventures before are recent ones y we shall have many more as soon as he joins me on my carni tour!

update

So I've been here for about a month and we've had 4 shows. I'll try to be better on updating our shows. So here is a quick run through of our recent shows.

Dog Wood: I arrived here on a Wed after being up all night on a Gray Hound. I think it was one of the most entertaining trips that I have ever been on. Well I arrived and was whisked away to Lewiston ID, for our first weekend show. It was a fun little show. Nothing to exicting happened except for the tye-dye sign that read; Made in Oregon. I was so happy only because we all know that hippies come from Oregon and one of the whinches broke so we only had one bungee tramp.

Hippie fest: The next week we went to Moscow ID for there mini shaksperean festival. It was run by hippies for hippes and we made a fair share of money because we had a lot of climbers and the same whinch that we had fixed during the off week broke yet again. After setting up on Friday my Uncle and I drove all over Mosocw, Lewiston y Clackston trying to find a place to sleep. We finally found a walmart that was open y purchased sleeping bags. We drove back to the park around 1am and crashed in the truck.
They had live music and hippie dancing the whole day we were there working. The best group was a latino group from LA. We sat there and enjoyed the music that they played for us.

Oregon City: So far this has been the worst run fair that I have been to. It was suppost to be a family festival, but it was run by a gay man and ozzie ozbourne named Rebekah. I liked Rocky, I mean he was a very nice guy and really went out of his way to make everyone feel welcomed. The woman version of Ozzie was the complete oposite! She was in charge of the music and for two days we listened to rap, hevay metal and other crap. It wasn't a good show for us finacially. We packed everything up Sat night and drove home all night, so that we wouldn't have to be there on Sunday.

Anacortes: The first show in the heat of the summer. On Sat it was 93 degrees in northern WA. I truly loved the town of Anacortes. It is all surrouned by water. I left the show a lot darker than I have been since my mission. I figure that I will continue to darken up until I'm a nice golden color. We worked both days in the same kind of weather and loved it.

We have a week and a half off before we head out for 3 weeks straight. We'll start in Portland for 10 days and then off to a town close to Boise for a week. I'll do my best to keep ya'll posted!

Change

I spent a day in Seattle with my father y his partner Denny. Whenever I am with them we usually go to the movies and we went to see Prince Caspian. It is an amazing movie, but it helped me realize that it is time for me to grow up and mature.
I'm the kind of person that it more comfortable playing with litte kids y trying to befriend the teenagers to given them a good role model, for a change. I've let my hair grow y now with my tan I remind people of a surf bum from California.
I've felt like it is time for me to grow up y take things more seriously than I have before. I mean I am immature y jump to a lot of rational conclussions, but this is not one of them. I've spent a lot of time looking at what has happened to me over the past year. I haven't made any new friends due to the fact that I'm not able to feel comfortable around them. I'm still trying to hold on to apart of my past because I'm affraid to walk off into the darkness not knowing where to go.
Another thing that has helped me realize this is spending time with my three girls (Addie, Kate y Zoe). They are the cutest little girls that you could ever know. I've seen what it takes to be a parent and I've come to the realization that I'm not ready for that, I've a long way to go to ever consider getting married.
The first thing that will change is the appearance. I'm no longer going to have long hair, for it is a sign of laziness and a slob. I want people to look at me as they did when I was a missionary. I was clean cut and the first impression was always good. The one person that I need to be more like is my little brother.
By changing my outward appearnce I'll be able to change, slowly but do able, my personality to become a more reponsible young man y someone that people can turn to, to get things done.

David Archuletta Sucks

I'm sorry to offend all of you Archuletta fanatics, but I cannot stand him. Okay so I've never been a person to watch American Idol, but since I've been living here at my Aunt's house and her girls are in love with the show, I watch it with them.
I have been impressed by Dave Cook. I think he will make the most money than all of the other contestants at this moment. He's just a person that can really belt out the music and he knows how to perform.
Now why I do not like Señor Archuletta. Well there is only one reason, he destroys amazing songs. I'm not saying that he does not have a good voice, but his renditions of the lyrics and the music is almost as bad as my own singing. I just wish America would wisen up and vote him off.

Intruder

I'm hoping to blog more this summer so that a few of my good friends that I will not see for a few, can understand what it is like to be a carni. First off Zac don't worry you'll be here soon enough and Kenny you should come and ditch the love birds to chill with me and Zac, I'll get you a couple of passes for a show or two.
Well on Sunday afternoon, when my aunt and I returned to her humble home, her three dautghers came running out of the house to greet us. They mentioned how much they had missed us and were glad that we were home.
I followed the four of them into the house and sat back to watch my aunt go up to the living room and sit there with my uncle and their 4 kids. I felt like I was somewhere where I shouldn't be. Not that I couldn't have joined them and been welcomed, but I felt like they needed their time as a family.
It helped me see what really does matter here in this life time and that is to be able to have a family and be able to support them. I know it's not easy to have one, trust me I've expeirenced it here over the past week, but it's the little moments that makes everything else pass away. It also made me feel homesick. I've never felt like that before y I've traveled a ton. On my mission I never once was home sick. But this past weekend I was.

New Job

Well this past weekend was my first taste of my new job and I will tell you that I'm in heaven. I felt like I actually was able to do something that I enjoy.
It's not like I didn't like my other job, but I never really enjoyed it. I never once felt like people wanted or needed me there. They said they did, but they really didn't.
I'm just happy to be doing something new and exciting. I'll miss a couple of people that I worked with at my old job, but other than those few, I will not look back.