Saturday August 3rd, 2002
at 6:21 p.m.
Well my annual trip to Minnesota has been far from the relaxing, pleasant vacation I was hoping it would be. Its beginning was far from boring, but not in the good way. Now I have constant jaw pain and med side affects to show for it.
The non-fun excitement continued today when there was severe thunderstorming and tonadoes sighted throughout the county. The town alarm, the tornado warning system, was wailing for about twenty minutes. I've never heard it before. Apparently the last time it did go off, there was alot of damage to the town, so I was concerned. I was like, what to take with me? Laptop!!! So I grabbed up my "Prada" purse with my wallet, and my laptop and headed downstairs. Nothing has happened except a lot of thunder, lightening, and much-needed rain (the drought has been rough on the crops here).
There have been two highlight in this trip thus far. I'll go over them in chronological order!
Yesterday, Friday, my mom, her friend, and I went to go see 'Signs' in the town over. I had no idea had no idea of what to expect since previews had been so cryptic, except that it was probably about more than just 'crop circles' since it was written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. He is the same man who did 'Sixth Sense' and 'Unbreakable.' It met those expectation and surpassed them with an amazing plot that blended two issues that at first glance seem very different, but with his expertise are woven to a film that brings up serious issues. To name a few are faith, an interceptive versus passive God versus any god at all, family relations, miracles, trust, providence, fate--if things are or aren's meant to be, and of course, life on other planets (but that's the most minor of them all). I recommend it to all!
When I got home, though, I was pretty nervous. We're staying in a farmhouse just like the one in the movie--surrounded my miles and miles of corn crops, lol! My bedroom is on the corner of the bottom floor so I was a bit nervous. . .To make matters worse, I was reading a collection of scary stories. What was I thinking?!?!
Then the next highlight happened this morning. My mom's friend is back visiting her childhood farm outside town, and we went to visit her today to take a 'wild flower walk'. On her farm a bunch of fields are fallow and so the prairie grasses and flowers are growing up and they're just gorgeous. However, I was much more interested in looking for frogs. I was not disappointed. About halfway through the walk we came across a pond. Oh. My. God. I have never seen so many frogs in my entire life. I have iea how all these frogs fit in the pond. It was pretty shallow--only about half a foot or a foot deep. But seriously, I cannot even fathom how so many frogs exist in one place. Everytime you look one step, literally twenty frogs of all different sizes and colors would come leaping rom all directions in that vacinity and plop into the water. It was so amusing how MANY there were--I cannot stress how MANY there were! I was in frog heaven. My mom's friend said I can come back any time I want, even if they're not there. I don't think we have time since we're leaving Monday morning, but I would if I could--I SO would!!
Chloe © 2004