Life in the fast lane!

Well, my lovely summer is about over. Since coming back from Philadelphia I've been to Yosemite National Park, which was just a leisurely trip to take a jaunt up a rock, and then Mommy and I spent a wonderful few days at South Carlsbad beach. We were able to watch a beautiful sunset and take several rather long walks in the sand :) Now it's back to crunch time, not only with school but another very exciting thing that's happened to me. It's not a job, yet, but I'm dancing with the company at San Diego Ballet. So I'm not being paid to dance but it's kinda like I am because I don't have pay tuition for classes :D So I have 3 performances in October before we even think about Nutcracker. I will also be going on tour with the company and doing the Nutcracker in Montana over Thanksgiving weekend!!! To say the least, I'm ECSTATIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is what I've been working for and it feels so good to finally do it!! Ok, changing gears, back to school. My 3rd quarter of school starts this Thursday, Sept 22, and I'm going to be a busy girl. This quarter I have herbology(really excited about this one!), upper body kinesiology, deep tissue massage, neuromuscular massage and chair massage. So if anyone wants a massage, most likely I'll need practice hours! So if any of you are curious here's an example of my average day:

6am ~ get up and get ready for the day
8am ~ leave the house
9:30am ~ company class
11am ~ rehearsal
1pm ~ leave rehearsal and head to school
1:30pm ~ start school with a clear head
5:30pm ~ leave school with my brains fried
6:30pm ~ get home for dinner and study school and any dances I need to
10pm ~ try and go to bed

That is going to be my average week day, my weekends on the other hand:

6am ~ get up and get ready for dance
8am ~ leave the house
9:30am ~ company class
11am ~ rehearsal
5pm ~ leave to head home
6pm ~ arrive home for dinner then crash in bed, most likely

So that's pretty much going to be my life for at least the next 6 months. So if you don't see me for some time or you don't hear from me, don't worry I shouldn't be dead ;) Just keep trying and eventually I'll get back to you!

Half Dome vs. Grand Canyon

Okydoky, Half Dome was so much easier than Grand Canyon. I'm going to abbreviate so bare with me. GC was longer and we were going uphill at the end. HD was shorter and we went up to begin with. HD was steeper and harder in the fact that it was a climb most of the way and not a hike. But all in all GC took a bigger toll on me then HD did. The hardest part of HD were the cables and that was the hardest place mentally. I was telling my uncle it's not that you couldn't die in the GC but when you're standing on this big rock with nothing but your hands gripping the cables and keeping your footing keeping you from a fall to your death, in that perspective it was harder than GC. But hey, I'm alive and so is the rest of the group that went, so we're all good!! Here are some highlights of the trip :)

5 sandwiches, cheez-its, M&M's, peanut M&M's, chip's ahoy, apple, vanilla wafers, fig newtons, pita chips, trail mix, assorted chocolate bars...that consisted of our lunch for the hike!  

We left camp at this time and started the hike at 5:51am

Vernal Falls on the Mist trail

Nevada Falls farther up

4.5 miles left!!

Half Dome!

The cables leading up to the dome. The cables are the line on the left

View of Yosemite Valley from on top. That's Me and Jeffery, my cousin, out on that rock

Our group. We did it!!!