Highly Effective Teenage Summer is the new awesome

Okay. I promise that I only have one last post about my trip to Utah. It is just that I experienced my 'best saturday morning of the summer' and had to dedicate an entire post to the fun that was had at the mona rope swing. the other day cindy posted about the trip that she took the last time she was in Utah, and it made me remember how much I wanted to go too. Summer of 03, this is pretty much all that we did.

Time to relive the memory. So six of us got in the car and went. Damian and Kristen were kind of having an awesome outfit competition.

First Damian was, like, "My outfit is a coordinated two piece flowery ensemble, perfect for either lounging pool side or a night on the town. And for the record, I believe the summer is officially called Highly Effective Summer."

And then Kristen was like, "I guess. But if you didn't notice, I am wearing the cutest dress in the world with the perfect white belt as an accessory. Oh, and I am pretty sure that this summer is called Teenage Summer."

And then Aaron was like, "Yawn. Apparently no one has noticed that I am wearing pigtails yet. "

And then I was like, "this is probably the best-dressed group of people I have ever gone rope swinging with. This truly IS the best saturday morning of my summer. Now where did Steven go?"
And then Steven was like, "Guys, I have already climbed so high into this tree and am going to start jumping into the water."
And then Kristen and I were like, "whoa" and had to make this pose a lot because seriously, that tree is tall.

And the swinging began. Steven kind of set a high standard right off the bat.

Nothing that Jeff couldn't handle, of course.

And then steven made friends with some of the mona locals, and was like "Dude, how exactly do you jump out of a tree and look like tarzan?"

And then the blonde guy rolled his eyes and was like, "Its like this, man. Its all in the hair"

And then Steven was like, "Jealous."

And Kristen was like "I guess I could go by myself off this tree, but why when there is a guy in pigtails to go with?

And then I was like," I guess I had better stop sitting all scared at the top of this tree and just jump"

I think you get the idea.



For food afterwords we stopped in Santaquin at the Santa Queen.
You might not be able to tell from this photo, but man, that food was greasy.
damian made sure to charm the waitresses with his big city pose.


I am pretty sure that Flo called her girlfriends immediately to tell them that she had just served a hamburger to the man of her dreams, and he was wearing a two piece flowery ensemble, just like she had always knew that he would.



there are about a million more photos of our rope swinging adventures posted here, but i have a feeling that might only be of interest to the six of us that were there. still. i love that rope swing with all of my heart.