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*yawn~* mornin'. (noon actually...) ok lots to tell:

Sonshine was FREAKIN' AWESOME!!! rofl to start the day, I headed to Cory's place in Willmar to hang out until he got back from work, then, after making a few stops to pick up Sara and Austin and Caleb, we all headed to the campsite to his camper and hung out there for awhile. that was fun... we just sat and talked, mostly.... the door wasn't staying shut most of the time... xD then we headed out to the main stage, lawnchairs in tow, to find a spot. We ended up splitting up into two groups; all the oldest siblings (4 of us) sat in row 2 rows ahead of where the rest of the gang was sitting right next to the walkway. I had to move once, but it was only to back up and in alignment with the other 3 after the lady who had the lawn chairs behind us came back and rearranged....

and then so we listened to some bands (its fun hearing them do checks on the mics and instruments) and then there was like a hour and a half break before the evening bands kicked off (including Hawk Nelson and this band from Texas and lastly a rap-ish group) so we all headed back to the camper and had lots of fun playing cards and sitting around talking about random things. Turns out Marin and Ramee got new camera phones, so Caleb and I were taking pictures of Austin and Emily Starr (the pastor's oldest daughter- he and her were there for the day, too).

the evening bands were awesome!! I really liked the one from Texas (they had an interesting name) because the songs had so much energy... I was actually on my feet dancing part of the time (haha try to visualize that... xD) and then he talked for a little bit and it turns out that the drummer had engineered a regular Guitar Hero guitar into a actual working guitar! cool and he showed us how it worked and then he pressed one button that he said was his favorite. He made everyone guess what sound it was making (I knew- I told the rest of the gang but I don't think they heard me) and it was the coin-collecting sound off of Super Mario Bros.! xD I don't think the rest of the gang got a kick out of it, but I did... xD

then there was a break after that band while the other set up, and I started to get a headache. Progressively through the last band it got worse and worse until I actually took off my headband and glasses and tried to lean my head against the lawnchair to close my eyes against the flashing stage lights and thundering bass that rattled our chairs (the rest of the day I enjoyed that feeling, though). so after they had a "grand finale" finish (but they kept playing after it though... neutral ) we packed up and headed back to the camper to go home. by this time I thought I was gonna die, but I made it somehow! I had to stay awake because I had to give Stacey directions on how to get to our place because of the detour. (ha my dad always goes around it...)


so I crashed. as soon as I got home, i ripped off my clothes (not really "ripped", of course... =] ), got in my pjs somehow, brushed my teeth, and went straight to bed. I'm still wearing the wristband from yesterday, actually. oh and the dreams I had were kinda creepy:

in the first one, my siblings and I were all excited to go to market. this went on for a few dream-days, and every night I had the house to myself, and I couldn't find my family. Then one morning, I looked outside to see dad running and pushing Karen and Lonnie to keep running... then somehow they laid on the sidewalk, mom appeared, and she started cutting them apart!!! O.O she was ripping at their bodies with a knife, and it looked like KFC chicken... O.o she took a LOT from their rib area, and feet/legs. I couldn't really see them all too well as humans.... but when I approached dad about it, he said something about how they were gonna sell the bodies of my siblings, and they were gonna sell my meat. it all made sense then- instead of me doing anything except them making me eat, they were making me larger and larger to be butchered for market! O.O I figured thats what was happening earlier in the dream, too, when everyone else at a table of my relatives was skinny except for this one lady who was pigging out on a huge chocolate cake... so anyways I looked at dad, and I felt I had a look of enduring pain on my face as he took a long knife and sliced through my gut.... then the dream ended.

and in the second one, (this one's harder to remember for some reason...) what I remember is there was Karen and I, and the Vandenide boys. (but munchkin was in place of Caleb... ninja ) we were having some sort of competition thing and one of the things was to clean Josie's room. But it was Karen's room we were cleaning... neutral then we were all in these go-cart things and we had to knock off half the books on the library shelves while going around on this track... O.o then that one ended and here I am! thank goodness~

oh and when I woke up, mom was looking on her laptop at Amtrak train fares to go to Baltimore, Maryland. then she asked me if I would like to take a 28-hour train ride to Baltimore over MEA weekend this October!! whee that's where her next big meeting is, and she has to be there by Tuesday, but if dad could get away then, he and us kids would leave on Wednesday (the day before MEA starts) to get on Amtrak (probably at St. Cloud like last time) and then we'd switch trains at Chicago and Washington D.C. to get to Baltimore. We'd stay at some Mariott hotel with mom, I guess... then we'd leave the next Sunday, and get home on Monday (thank goodness for the 4-day week) btw this is all VERY tentative... but ya never know! biggrin the total (round trip methinks) for us 4 on Amtrak would be something like $884. ^^ pretty cheap, considering that plane would be close to $2000...

oh speaking of numbers I misspoke when I told of kids going to RMH- actually 2500; one less zero than I had had... sweatdrop but hey its all good- I learned that at Sonshine there were like 22,000 (this number I'm pretty sure on this time... =P) there... it was awesome!!! >.< there were people EVERYWHERE. and not a weirdo to be found, except for this one dude with a kinda feminine voice that asked me if a spot was open in front of me that had a unibrow... O.O i think thats the second time that I've actually seen someone with an actual unibrow... O.O but I think last time it was a girl... *shudders*

so yeah... to end, I'll say what us Sonshiners said several times during the night during breaks: