Saturday, September 5, 2009

The Door Bell Ringers

Posted by Abby Marie at 5:00 PM



The other day my doorbell rang 2times in a row. With each new ring came a very interesting surprise.

Ring #1: I open the door and this boy holding a 1/2 full bottle of LA Looks gel pushes his way into the house. "I'm in dyer need" he says. He had just put 1/2 a bottle of gel in his hair and needed to borrow a blow dryer to make it stay slicked back. He was wearing pants that came up past his belly button and his shirt was tucked in. Apparently he was trying out for the ballroom team and needed to get his hair to stay slicked back. I grabbed my blow dryer and he used the living room mirror to get his hair in order.

Ring #2: This time I opened the door to a girl. She said "i just noticed that you were growing things" as she pointed to our garden in the front yard. Lauren and Suzanne worked hard to plant our little garden and we harvest zucchini and tomatoes like crazy. I nodded my head and then the girl said, "i was just wondering if you're going to pick those things." Um, duh. I very happily said "Yes!" and she looked a little disappointed. She was scheming to get our vegetables. So I went into the kitchen and gave her a zucchini we picked like 2 weeks ago and sent her on her way. It made me wonder how many people are so kind as to pick our vegetables for us, without us ever knowing.

Last night I walked the Gallery Stroll, sampled Latino food and did a little Latino dancing at the Latino Americano festival, did some more dancing at the Penny Royal cafe, and then went to sleep. I woke up at 5:10 AM to head up Diamond Fork Canyon for a 10-12 mile trail run. My favorite part of the run was dodging the mine field of cow pies, and then dodging the mine field of cows. Here are some pictures of Fiji.


This is Fiji. That water is warm all day long.


These are the frogs they raced at our resort in Fiji.


This is the sun set view from our resort.

2 comments:

Bullock said...

FIJI?!?!?!

your life is way too fun. someone should total your car or something...

abby. abigail. abs. my dear. you have a real job, suzanne is engaged, i'm starting what looks like a sweet semester at BYU and i know. ok? i know. i am lame. but will you forgive me? can we do something... soon?!

ha ha ha. cow pies. i'd like to run with you and dodge the cow pies. and then i'd like to eat pie.

September 6, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Stefanie Elyse said...

I went to the latino festival with scott tonight. When we got there, I told Scott, "look around, I'll betcha Abby Porter is somewhere around here!" Looks like I was a day late... and, fiji sounds soooo good right now!

September 7, 2009 at 9:42 PM

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