Number 16 on the Summer Bucket List Completed!

With the sun shining and some music that is epic for fist pumping to, I stood in the middle of the street (no cars coming!) with my neighbor who is ridiculously awesome and has the sheer epicness to wear a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belt, and started fist pumping. A total Kodak moment. I don't know, but there is something brilliant about having a creatively crazy neighborhood. Off to camp for me tomorrow! I'm hoping I can accomplish some things on my summer bucket list, but I'll just have to see.

As of now, I have 28 more summer bucket list items to conquer.

May the odds be ever in your favor, dear reader.

Zinni :)

My Side of the Mountain (Stories Even!) From Rhodo

Promotion. Bush Diving? It's Zinni's talent to dramatize the moment with words. All I saw was Zinni sitting on perfect, cubed shaped shrubs- but that's besides the point. Promotion was- nice. We sang songs and, well- promoted. Zinni read her paper about being at the elementary school. What fun! It mentioned everything from Hello-Kitty backpacks to ice cream being shoved in her face at a reading party.

I'm sure there'd have been pages of information documented about of the kickball game if we'd won- but- um... The staff pretty much PONED our un-epic kickball ninjaness. (That's okay, though! We had FUN, so what else matters?)

Just for good measure, here's what I did today:
-Went to preschool
-Ate ice cream in a pink cone
-E-mailed Zinni
-Went for a walk
-Went shopping with my brother




Explanation? Let me just say that what you might be thinking of (me sitting listening to a story on the story rug, painting an ice cream cone pink, or holding up a pair of designer jeans to my brother's waist seeing if that shade of denim looked good on him) is probably WRONG.

My Bush Diving Adventures (One Summer Bucket List Item Down, 29 To Go)

Picture the scene: Zinni, Rhodo, Banana Nut Muffin (BNM, as I like to call her. BNM is a good friend who is going to Rhodo's junior high and has a really exciting joke that she will tell later in this post), and MoMo (a super good friend of Rhodo, BNM and I who was visiting from a different state). I confronted the shaped shrubs in my neighbor's yard. In my red sweatpants and grey hoodie, I stretched my body across two of the shaped shrubs at the very bottom of their driveway. I got sopping wet and my clothes were wet for about two hours afterward. So, WAHOO! One summer bucket list item down, 29 to go! What's next, I could never know. Hey, that rhymed!

Until next time, and may the odds be ever in your favor,

Zinni

Sixth Grade Graduation (Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!)

Tomorrow is the big day. No, Rhodo isn't getting married, but it's the day of our "promotion" from sixth grade to the mild frontier of junior high school. We had our last real recess today, and last taste of elementary school lunch for some people (and yes, that is a happy thing). We launched off bottle rockets today at school (no, we didn't have fireworks inside of them, it was with water and an air compresser), and Rhodo and I built one together. It was not exactly easy on the eyes, if you know what I'm saying. Our rocket's name consisted of some of our favorite people's names-some of which included Rhodo, Zinni, and Hallie (my friend, as mentioned in my "Pre Seventh Grade Summer Bucket List"). All together, our title ended up having eleven words in it. Some rockets included things inside of them like Snickers bars, Spongebob Duck tape, broken pencil sharpeners, uber-mini Nerf footballs, and rocks. That marked our last day as elementary school students. Tomorrow is our promotion and on Monday we are having a staff vs. the sixth grade kickball game. Our elementary careers are coming to a close. In less than 24 hours, we will be officially out of sixth grade and getting ready to storm the castle of junior high school.

As for now, we will just have to wait.

Good luck to us, and may the odds be ever in our (and your) favor,

Zinni :)

Summer Here I Come (Rhodo)

I'm not quite as ambitious as my good old friend Zinni, but I too would like to pull some exciting times out of this summer. If what I hear (and see) from various victims of Junior High is true, then I want to make this summer good. Real good. Reality is, it'll begin sooner than I know it. I'm not sure if I'm excited, scared, or don't really care- but I want to do some things before I enter Junior High: a mystery above all others.

My Summer Bucket List: Things I Plan to Accomplish This Summer

1. Learn to tie dye
2. Participate in the local library's summer reading program
3. Make a pie
4. Sew a hat
5. Write a picture book
6. Successfully grow at least one strawberry in my strawberry patch
7. Face-paint a perfect butterfly
8. Go a full two hours without talking-and while being awake
9. Swim the half mile at camp
10. Ride on an inner tube
11. Knit something cooler than a scarf

 -Rhodo

Pre-Seventh Grade Summer Bucket List

Seventh Grade: crazy, huh? Kids obsessed with their cell phones and a particularly unhealthy obsession with Axe aftershave (for the guys). It's an alternate universe from elementary school, where kickball and really awful cafeteria food reign supreme. So, in the summer before I go to this fantastical kingdom, I need to accomplish some very important things this summer. Here are all of those things. Prepare to laugh (the first one is pretty funny).

1. Go bush diving (jumping into shrubs)
2. Make entries on the "Anonymously Ours" blog Rhodo and I have created
3. Go to Late Night at the YMCA just once
4. Hug a chicken
5. Eat frozen yogurt 3+ times
6. Work on writing a novel
7. Go to the Squirting Water Park (it's this awesomeazing (amazing+awesome) place where there are these water fountains that spray out water like a volcano into these gigantic wading pools. You get SOAKED!)
8. Start randomly dancing in the middle of the mall with Hallie (Hallie is my excitingly awesomeazing friend who is going off to college in the fall)
9. Go to the movies
10. Run an un-official 400 m. (Rhodo loves to run and keeps telling me how much she likes the 400. So, I just spontaneously decided to run an un-official 400)
11.Go tubing (as in inner-tubing)
12. Do the perfect spit take with lemonade
13. Hit a bulls-eye with an arrow
14. Have a car wash
15. Go to my cousin's house and sneak into my oldest cousin's room (bonus points if I get some sort of object out of it).
16. Fist pump in the middle of my street (with no cars coming, of course!)
17. Kick the perfect, most epic kick in a game of kickball
18. Slide down a Slip N' Slide
19. ZIPLINE!
20. Climb this really awesome tree on the little kids' playground at my old elementary school
21. Play "Party Rock Anthem" at a super high volume in the car
22. See a $1.00 movie at the movie theater close by (they play G and PG rated movies that have already come out on DVD. Yes, I know, it sounds dumb, but, hey, it's a movie for a dollar!)
23. Draw a HUGE chalk drawing on my driveway reading "GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!"
24. Get my cat, Marmalade, to sleep on my pillow JUST ONCE!
25. Go swimming in an outdoor pool
26. Make an album of a bunch of pictures from only this summer titled "Summer Just Had To Be Photographed"
27. Eat salmon??? (random one)
28. Do something absolutely crazy with Hallie
29. Jump off the dock at this one bay in town
30. Have the most amazing summer

Until next time, and may the odds be ever in your favor,

Zinni :)