It's Halloween.

I really don't like this holiday. All year we tell people not to accept food from strangers, but halloween it's door to door contradiction. Anyways, I realize it's been a long time since I last updated, and a lot has happened. Not much photography though. :(

My camera broke, so I have my mom's digital, and of course my dad's film. I'm not sure why I haven't really done anything with either, but I haven't. Lets work on changing that in November. :)

I moved into my apartment on September 15th, and I LOVE it! :)

I tried posting pictures, but it keeps telling me it can't do it. Irritating.

Anyways, after that, I worked for the new student orientation for school. It was a lot of fun, but at the same time it was awful. It was so disorganized, and chaotic. It was a good experience though, and I met a lot of new people, not only freshman but people that I had just been missing out on!

The saturday before classes started, 9/25/10 my Grandma passed away. It was awful news, and I was not expecting it. My family went to Montana to be there, but since classes were starting they told me I couldn't go. It was really hard going to class, and being so far away from everyone that I wanted to be with. I talked with the family, the phone was passed around, and everyone told me they wished I was there, but that Grandma would want me to be in school. I really wish that I had been able to be there with everyone to say bye, but life happens. It really sucks sometimes. I did get to see her in July, so I am thankful for that, but I really miss her. There's talk about going to Montana for Thanksgiving, so hopefully that will happen so I can go see her and everyone else.

Last week I had my midterms, I'm kind of worried about how 2/3 went, but we shall see. Classes have been keeping me busy, but so have friends. I am having a good time, but it's weird to remember that this is my last year. I need to apply to graduate, which is so strange to me, and it is a little scary. I'm ready to be done with school, but at the same time I don't want to leave.

anyways, time to head out. sorry this was text only, I tired with the pictures. but I failed. Hopefully next time it will work.

RIP Grandma, I love you.

Welllllll Then

Sooo my dad pointed out to me the other day that I fail at this. 'Why come?' he asked, well dad, let me tell you.

because SOMETIMES I might update... just sometimes though.

I'm not sure why I haven't updated, I guess it's just out of laziness.

Since we last spoke, I have not done much. I went to the gorge one day.. All by myself, and it was the best! Here are a few iPhone pictures, because I used my daddy's film camera, and haven't scanned any in. Also, I was 'smrt' and forgot a digital (mine broke). So the iPhone will have to do.

I also turned 21!!! I went to Ashland for the big day, and spent it with 3 of my closest friends there. It was so much fun! We went out at midnight (yay), but they all had to work in the morning, so none of us got too drunk. The next evening, we went to the bar again, but same deal. I'm really happy with how it went, and I wouldn't have changed much.

Gabby, Zach and I :)

Gabby, Nate and Nicole

The bestest!

Group Photo haha.. my first drink? Pink Lady.

End of the night..

Dinner!

And round two: that is a vodka redbull.

Overall, I'm happy.

OH! I also got an apartment! :) I move in on the 15th!! Can't wait!!

Bannack

Long post from Bannack Montana State Park. Bannack is an actual ghost town, that was turned into a state park on the promise that it would not become a 'living ghost town' like nearby Nevada City and Virginia City.

Bannack was really cool, and I wish I had taken my daddy's film camera with me as well as the digital. Also, had we had more time to spend, I'm sure I would have taken more than 200 photos.

I had been looking at pictures of ghost towns, I thought it would be a lot of fun to explore one. Since we were in Montana anyways, it was a natural fit. These are just a few of my favorite pictures from the day, I may post more later but that will just depend.

I would have broken this up, but I just wanted to get them all on here for the 2 of you that look here. ;)

I hope you enjoy looking at these half as much as I enjoyed taking them (which was a lot by the way). :)

Living Ghost Towns

(This is also a long post.. 28 photos)

While we were in Montana, we went camping at Ruby River Reservoir. We spent a day and a half looking for garnets/gold. It was a lot of fun! We all found a lot of garnets, as they were everywhere you looked. The gold was also found, of course not as easily. One of the days we were there, we took a break from looking at the ground and drove a few miles to see some 'living ghost towns' Nevada City and Virginia City. These towns were really cool, and interesting.. But I would have liked them better had they not been living. You think of ghost towns, you don't think of gift shops and ice cream shops. Anyways, they had run down buildings (since it was a ghost town) as well as some fixed up ones that were now restaurants and gift shops. Some of the more run down buildings had their doors open, and you could walk in a few feet, but then were stopped by a fence and could only look around. Others, had glass so you couldn't really see much. Over all, it was a nice place to visit and I'm glad I got the experience. Here's a few of my favorite pictures of the day.

A washing machine..






This is one of my favorites from the day! ^^

This is by far my favorite though. ^^

I LOVED this clock, but it was behind glass so you couldn't get a good picture. The sun was really bright (imagine that) and the glare was awful. I tried to fix it, but this is the best I could do.

There was a candy shop.. and a guy making taffy. imagine that.


They actually hung 5 men in that building, It was a little creepy so I didn't take any pictures inside.

The court house. pretty building. Just wish there weren't so many dang cars everywhere.