It's been a really long time since I have blogged, but I have recently been inspired to get back to it, so hopefully there's still someone out there who would like to read it :) In keeping with the name of this blog, I've decided to share a few of my recent adventures...
This past summer I had the privilege of going on vacation with the Thiemens family. This would be the family of my good friend Tabitha; the family whom I currently live with. This vacation took place about 3 weeks after I moved in.
Every year, the Thiemens go on a 2-week family camping trip up to King's Canyon National Park in Northern California. This year they invited along their son Chris's girlfriend, Edith, and me. Now, to create a clear picture, when I say "camping", I mean a camper for the parents and 5-year-old Karise, and tents for the rest of us!
Throughout the trip, it became the nightly ritual of us four girls (Tab, Edith, Tab's sister Annelise & me) to walk down to the bathroom building together just before midnight to prepare for bed. Well, one night, as we were in the bathroom, the other girls were brushing their teeth while I was using a stall. Since it was obviously dark out at this time, we always carried flashlights with us for the walk over and back, mine being now in the pocket of my pajamas. Well, as previously stated, I am now in the bathroom stall, and as I stand up, I turn around to flush the toilet. At the same moment, my flashlight flops out of my pocket and into the flushing toilet! To my complete shock, it swirls and GOES DOWN! And it's gone, faster than I can even try to reach in and grab it out! I let out a scream of surprise and amazement as I realize that it really went all the way down. I scan the floor around the base of the toilet thinking surely I must have imagined it, for this was no small flashlight; it was about 5 in. long and 2 in. around! But no, it's really gone. And the toilet does not even appear to be clogged. As I'm standing in shock, staring into the empty bowl, I'm thinking, "Oh crap, what if I just broke the sewage system?!", and having visions of waking up in the morning to the campgrounds flooded with unpleasantness, while I hide away hoping that no one discovers in the pipes this flashlight with my name written on the side in Sharpie. I decide that from this point on I will go by my middle name. In the meantime, the other girls had heard my screech and want to know if I'm okay, to which I attempt to explain while also beginning to laugh hysterically. After they figure out what I'm saying and all of us have laughed to tears we gather our things to go back to camp to retell this fantastic tale to the others. But first, we have a disturbing thought... the only other toilet in this bathroom had been clogged for several days, so naturally we considered this: if this toilet swallowed my large flashlight with no trouble, what did someone flush down the other one???
