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hey people, this is going to be long. just warning you. if your not overly bored than you definately shouldnt waste your time.

so as many of you know, i went to the big family reunion that my family has (duh). so this is my AMAZING report of the various events. well, we got to the "down under" camp resort, (where NO ONE was australian, i was extremely disappointed) and so i get out of the car and look at the playground, which honestly wasnt that impressive. all the paint on everything was all chipped, the volleyball net was falling apart, as you can tell, it wasnt that special. so i walk over to where the crowd of kids are, and they're playing tetherball. of course, this doesnt interest me WHATSOEVER (ha nice word huh?) so i go on the swingy bench thingy and sit down there. so i'm attempting to swing, although its very difficult because beneath my feet is a bunch of mud, so i'm trying to step to the side of the mud to push myself back and forth. while i'm sitting here i'm listening to my mp3 and singing along to some paramore. I looked around at the kids to try to "guestimate" their ages, and there's a couple boys my age, and a couple boys that look about from 6-8 years old. and like...ONE girl. who is extremely young looking. so i got bored staring at them and decided to focus my attention on the extremely interesting mud beneath my feet when all of a sudden one of the young boys comes over to me. he's like "hi whats your name?" in that perky little kid way you know? so i smile and tell him my name and he HUGS ME! what the heck? i know that people are supposed to be friendlier in the country like my dad says, but isnt their ANY rules of ettiquet here? so i'm just like "ha ha. umm..thank you?" and the little boy runs off. oooook then. whatever. so i get bored after awhile and i go to the camper to get my volleyball and as soon as i get to the court some other little boy comes up and asks if he can play with me. so of course, being the nice baby-sitter sort that i am, i tell him that yes, he can play with me. we pass the ball maybe, once, and then the hugging child runs over and he wants to play too. so i let him play and i tell him that he can be on the other kids team if he wants, but noo he wants to be on my team. so ok, thats cool, and we start playing volleyball. just for your information, children are absouloutly horrid at volleyball because it scares them when the ball comes flying towards their faces. but whenever my team gets a point, that hugging child runs over and hugs me. i got like 10 hugs in under five minutes. i was contemplating HOW to tell this kid to give me some space when he decides that he would rather play something else and he runs off. so i'm relieved and think, hey this isnt so bad. at least i can play some volleyball and get away from the house. so i'm passing the ball to the other kid and he's not doing so great, and then his DAD comes over and he's like "hey son, you need some help there?" and he says it with this hillbilly accent you know? and i was like, woah, i didnt know there were ACTUAL hillbillys. i thought that was something on tv only. XD i know stupid me, but i can be totally oblivious sometimes, so the dad starts playing on his son's team and i'm on my own team all alone (which i enjoyed very much) but i'm starting to feel slightly awkward that i'm playing against some weird guy who's being overly friendly and his kid, so i make an excuse and get out of there. so i go on the swings for awhile and the volleyball game dies down and those boys my age come back around. so then THEY pick up the volleyball and start playing, so i go over to play with them because they would obviously be better than playing with little kids. when i get over there we even out the teams and stuff, and the guys start being all show-offy and stuff, and then they start talking like those guys who say "beast" all the time, you know what i mean right? yeah. and they're pretty much ignoring me, except for when i do my serving, which *gasp* ACTUALLY GOES OVER THE NET. unlike all of THEIR serves. but as soon as i miss ONE this one guy is doing that thing where he's like "oooh you MISSED" so i snap back "well it was better than you could do!" and the guy has no comeback. wonder why? so then i decide that i dont particularly like these people, and they arent the kind of guys that i enjoy being nice to. and for some reason i've turned into a pretty bitter mood so i let the sarcasm flow freely. so whenever they hit a shot that goes completly awry i make little remarks like "oh that was just lovely" and clap while smirking at the guy who screwed up. they didnt like me much after that. then there's this big dance thingy that they do at about nine at night, so they all head down there and i'm thinking, well gee, where should i sit? cause i sure as heck dont want to sit by them. so i see two girls sitting at a table and i sit down next to them. and things are kind of awkward and stuff so i ask their ages and names and the kids are only 11 and 12. so i'm getting kind of bored, pretending to listen to their conversation, when one of the girls older sisters show up! and she's MY age! so we hung out after that and it was really fun. we goofed around at the dance and she danced with one of the boys, and i do have to admit that the boy was sorta cute, but still not my type at all. so when the dance ends, me and the girl were supposed to exchange email adresses, only she is being distracted by the boy, who she seems to be showing a great liking to. i just tell her goodnight and go back to my camp.
So the next day me and dad are heading to the family reunion, and we go through all these little towns and stuff. and one of the towns is the "boy hood home of J.C. Penney" (woah) so we go to the front of the museum thing and i pose and take pictures and stuff, and then we pass the "jc penney mall" but i guess this must have been THE VERY FIRST jcpenney mall because its CRAZY TINY! very very unimpressive. so our ride continues to chilocothee (god, i have NO idea how to spell it) and guess what sign we pass this time "chilocothee, home of sliced bread" WHAT?! oh boy, isnt that something to be proud of! ooh yes. indeed. so when we finally get to the family reunion, i find that all of my cousins have ditched it and they didnt come, and then it starts to RAIN like heck! so we move the reunion to some persons house, and i spend the remainder of my time listening to all these old ladies telling stories, (which actually wasnt too bad, cause my aunt mary ellen was very funny)
when i get back dad is packing things up so while i wait i go back to the swings, and the park is TOTALLY deserted. everyone has left. but then some kids come around and start playing on this merry go round thing, now this would be fine normally, but this merry go round has a trench sort of thing around it, i suppose it got that way from kids running continously in a circle for all that time, and this trench is filled with water. muddy water. but this one girl, we'll call her the daring one, she was about 8 i'd say. she takes off her shoes and goes into the water, and pulls out...a frog! so the two little boys who i'd say are about 5 run over and look at the frog, and then soon all of them are in the water searching for frogs, and they all FIND frogs. there were tons of them. one of the little boys was holding a frog in each hand and he walked over to show it to me and, wow, those poor frogs. they looked like they were having the life squeezed outta them by that little guys fist. so i suggest that he put them down, but he doesnt listen and goes back to the other girls (there were two of them by the way) and then the non-daring girl takes the frogs from the boy and frees them (yay!) . meanwhile the daring girl is spinning the merry go round, and also getting very wet from splashing the water. so then all the kids want to get on so the daring girl spins them and she jumps on, but she's lying down, so she starts to slip off. and she falls into the water! but she likes it so she goes for another round, only now she wants the non-daring girl to fall down with her. but that one says no, so the daring girl ends up falling down again, and she gets made at the non-daring one because it was HER turn to fall down. but the non -daring girl jumps off and throws a little hissy fit saying that, no, her mom said that she's not allowed to get dirty anymore because she's already had two baths today. so the girls argue for awhile, and the non daring girl gets back on and they go back to having fun. and thats about it. after that it was time to go and i got in the car to leave. although i did get a picture of the kids playing in the giant mud puddle. ^^ well, now that your probably asleep from reading my incredibly long entry, i should go.
heart jacky