One of my goals for this summer is to be in the mountains more. I don't get up there enough, similar to when I lived in Michigan, I rarely went to the beach. So on one of our days off, my friend Cassondra and I headed up to Estes to hike. As we were driving, Pants (that's Cassondra's nickname) kept talking about how she wanted to see a black bear on our hike. We reviewed what to do if we saw one (the internet told us to curl into a ball and act dead until the attack is over- that sounds pleasant, huh?!) We decided to hike Cub Lake, since it must have been named after bear-cub sightings there haha. As we were hiking along, I saw a snake slithering right next to me, screamed bloody murder, and pushed Pants over as I started running away from the snake. I think I gave her a heart attack- she thought I saw a black bear. You also have to understand she weighs like 90 pounds and is barely 5 feet tall...so I felt kinda bad about running her over haha. Then, when we were eating our lunch at the lake, a chipmunk snuck up on us and practically had his head in our cheez-its bag- I again screamed bloody murder, Pants jumped a mile, and we had people laughing at us. Needless to say, I'm a wuss when it comes to animals in nature, and I don't think Pants will ever hike with me again =)
I've also been mentoring a 16 year old girl for the past 6 months or so. We always set up our "dates" by texting each other throughout the week. As we were checking out cars in the parking lot, this was the conversation we had
Me: What's your favorite car?
K: I don't remember it's name. I'm really bad with names. Like, I don't even know your name.
Me: Ha. Ha. What? You don't know my name?
K: No. What letter does it start with? Is it Tiffany? Sarah?
Me: (laughing hysterically) I can't believe you don't really know my name! We've hung out for the past six months!
This went on for about 5 minutes....she literally had no idea my name was Stephanie. I'm clearly making a big difference in her life ;) I really do wonder what my name and number are programmed under in her phone, if she just calls me her "mentor" to everyone or what. But she knows next time I see her she will be quizzed on my name =)
Those are my two funny stories of the week- have a great weekend, ya'll!
2 comments:
Nature loves you. And what is your name again? I wonder how many times at the cottage we will be called the wrong name. Even people who don't know I have a sister named Stephanie will call me that sometimes, weird.
Lions and tigers and bears (and snakes and chipmunks) OH MY!!!!
Cute story about your mentee. Makes me wonder if everyone in her life is so fleeting, as in, here one minute, gone the next, that she doesn't form close relationships.
Love your scenery pictures. Colorado has such beautiful mountains and landscapes.
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