Drive In's, Movies, and (summer) Nights with Joy - not Guy (sorry!)

Last week, with a bunch of my friends, we went to a drive in movie. What else was there to do? It's summer, so nothing.

We all got in my friends car and drove to the Redwood Road theater.

Friday night. In June. At the drive in movies. With the popcorn. Bad idea. The line to even get the tickets backed up over 4 blocks of the busy road and we were lucky - we weren't the ones trying to turn left.

Eventually we got in but not without a little sacrifice on our part. We were 20 minutes late, so we missed the first 10 minutes of Pixar's Inside Out.

We loved it though. Let's just say a few tears were shed. Another great thing about it was the main character's name: Joy. Amy Poehler was great and Sadness, played by Phyllis Smith was hilarious.

I honestly can't wait to see Inside Out again. The second feature of that night was a different story.
Tomorrowland with George Clooney was just, well, not good. We had read what it was about and thought it sounded interesting, then we looked up rotten tomatoes which gave it a bad score, but we remembered their unjust rating of Austenland and we had hope that Tomorrowland (a lot of lands) would turn out to be a good movie, but really, it wasn't. It was also almost 2 in the morning. I slept through the climax. Maybe it actually was good. I didn't see it though. The question he did have to ask ourselves was what George was doing in it? It wasn't his best. It was weird.

My friends and I weren't the only ones at the theater. Yes I did mention all the other cars, but one of those cars held very similar DNA to me. Nielsianna was there with his girlfriend Stephanie. In the intermission between the movies, I noticed the truck on the row right in front of us had a silhouette that I knew. Then another silhouette I knew popped up. I decided to call him, and the silhouette answered the phone. I told them not to kiss, but who listens to their little sister? Not Niel.

So, the drive in movies were fun, but don't waste your money on Tomorrowland. Waste it on Inside Out. :)

So long! Farewell!

Little Buddy gave his farewell today. Believe it or not, it was a great talk. It was about sacrifice and he didn't skip the truth. He has had to sacrifice marriage proposals and offers to pay him not to leave from his girls. Brikelle left early. She was one of those proposals. 

Afterwards we all went to his house for a cereal bar. These aren't even half of his girls. 

Of course the picture I look the cutest in he looks high (poor Milwaukee)

and the picture I look the worst in, everyone else looks adorable. I shouldn't have moved. It was just so awkward in the center!

He also isn't that tall. He had to stand on the couch so we could all fit in the picture. 

Glow stick, yumm!

Yesterday as I was decaying away in front of netflix I received a well needed call from an excited Cam. She and Nicky were in the car and on their way to pick me up. Camie had found a magical idea on what is known as the internet and it was something she wanted to test. Glow bubbles. 

from left to right: me, nicky, camie, and SJ

Naturally when Camie and Nicky picked me up we turned the car right around so we could go to the dollar store for the supplies. Glow sticks and bubbles. 

After that we picked up the rest of the crew over at Bwaya's house. SJ, Bwaya, Nicky, Camie, and I all hopped in Camie's car and drove. 

bwaya made it into this photo

Big cottonwood canyon was lovely and we happened upon the most incredible sunset. admittedly, on the drive up we may have ended the already short life of an innocent bunny, but it was more like suicide on its part. You don't jump in front of moving cars. Simple as that.

an absolutely gorgeous sunset

Being the smarties that we are, and having a healthy lack of foresight, we hadn't thought to bring scissors; however, we were not going to be stopped. We would find a way to get those glow sticks open. 

Many of us set to twisting and bending the poor things until they seemed to give. Others used keys to saw at them. One of us used our teeth. That was entertaining. Have you ever seen a glowing mouth? Glowing spit perhaps? Well, it was quite fun to watch.

Camie and Bwaya

Had those in the car taken my suggestion before we left and let me refill my water bottle, there might have been more than the very last drop to spare our poor friend. But either way the glow stick still broke at the teeth of a very determined individual and left the rest of us peeing our pants :)

Bwaya refused to take any good pictures. Nicky and SJ just adding charm

The bubbles didn't actually end up working, apparently tiny shards of glass don't help the magical spheres form. Maybe the glowing formula was too liquidy? Who knows. Chemistry was never my favorite subject.

camie wincing at how bright the flash is

But we did come away with a few lessons. Bring scissors.We looked like glowing, speckled aliens for a while. Bunnies are not worth swerving off a mountain. Let the bullet bikes pass you. No matter what the government calls adults, we're still really children.

Get ready for the next blogging machine!

That would be me. I'm the next blogging machine. I've already explained why I am blogging in the page titled "WHY A BLOG?"

I'm Joy and I'm bored, so here I am, writing a blog about it.

and here is a picture of me writing this post.

Ok, that's enough for one day of blogging.

Thanks, Bye
Joyjoy