Believe it or not!

Oh la la! Such a long time since the last update! So what can I tell you about?

Friday was a fun day at my school with the gr. 5s, where we had our party. I'd like to declare that I am the eating-M&Ms-with-chopsticks champion of the class. :) Yes, that's right. First person to eat 10 M&Ms with a pair of chopsticks wins, and I WON! Woo hoo! Now, the thing is, I do have a good 10 more years experience than them in eating with chopsticks. I eat EVERYTHING with chopsticks. And once again, I'm overjoyed to win a competition where I compete against kids. Ahahahaha.

Saturday was an AWESOME trip to Niagara Falls with my church youth group. We started off at Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum, where I saw many a 2-headed animal. I think the lowlight was watching the gross sword-swallowing video, which also included the drilling-int-the-nose segment! Blech! The highlights include getting sick walking through that spinning tunnel thing (they had it at the science centre once, too) and discovering that the mirror we were making faces in at the beginning of the museum was actually a 2-way mirror. Then we headed out and decided AGAINST MY WILL, that we would all go in a haunted house. Now, I should tell you something. These are basically like the ones at Screamers at the Ex during Halloween, and I should tell you about the one incident where, I think it was Diana, Aniko and I, we went through one of the houses, and I was first. I remember rushing through this thing until we caught up to the group in front of us, and I was honestly CLINGING to the jacket of this stranger in front of me. I just grabbed on, closed my eyes and followed. This was also the same house in which we went too fast and Aniko got left behind, which resulted in her crying. So anyway, I really don't like them, and no, I can't handle the people popping out of the walls and no no no I do NOT want to go into Frankenstein's Castle or whatever the heck it was called. Anyway, it ended up we could only get a group deal if we all went in, so we all went in. Needless to say, there was a LOT of clawing and grabbing on my part as I struggled NOT to be last in the group I was in. LAST means ppl CHASE YOU!!!!! Being in the front means people pop out at you first. I was clawing to be in the middle of the pack. The worst was 1/2-way through when I just was SO out of breath from screaming and just half-laughing and panicking. Ahahahahaa. And the problem is, screams are always a chain reaction. You don't even have to SEE what's popping out....if one person screams, we all scream. Okay, by "we" I mean the gals. So Kev really was not a great help at all in our group because he kept going, "AHHHH, what's THAT?!" AT NOTHING (!!!) after which I would scream and then Jess and Jen would scream. Ahahahaha. I was SO out of breath and SO sweaty by the end! It was funny looking back on it, but definitely not during the whole thing. I also half-pulled off Jessica's hood on her jacket in a moment of sheer panic. Dear oh dear.

After haunted screaming mansion, we walked around for a bit. Jen and I pretended to know things about WWE in the WWE store, which didn't last that long. I did, however, notice the Hulk Hogan stuffed dog thing, and was quite pleased with myself that I recognized SOMEONE in the store. Ahahahaha. We then had yummy dinner at Boston Pizza, although I kept thinking about the bug my sister found in her soup there once, and then we had a really good devo time afterwards. It's hard doing it with so many people, but we talked about Ephesians 5:8-20. We're going to be doing some studies on purity after our 40 days of Purpose in the new year, so we wanted to challenge them to walk in the light. That was good times.

Then, of course, we went to see the falls. It was warm, so it was SO muddy! Ahahahaha. I love my youth! I was SO tired by the end of the day. All I wanted to do was sleep on the way home, but I was shotgun, which means keeping the driver company (which means, STAYING AWAKE, Matt! Ahahahah!), but that wasn't that bad because I found someone else who has seen Mannequin. Ahahahaha, such a cheesy 80s (90s?) movie.

Sunday was fun because I got to see lots of old friends at our Christmas service. The Omuras are SO funny. Ahahahaha. I also got to have a yummy birthday dinner with Ava, for her Grammy's b-day. It was rather hilarious because I ended up talking to myself a lot of the night, because she was sick and was having trouble hearing me. I'd turn to her every once in a while and say something, and get absolutely no response. Ahahahahaha. I was just talking to myself. I also bonded with Gabrielle when we worked together to hide a bun thing from another guy who obviously doesn't CARE about the 10-second rule on food hitting the floor. Ahahahahaha. Oh man, good times.

Today was a good 7 hours of shopping at Fairview, Yorkdale, Orfus Road (HELLO good deals at ROOTS, SO much better than the Woodbridge one!) and Wal-mart. I'm so tired. But I got to hang out all day with my sister and my friend Dan, who now works in Cali, so I don't get to see him most of the time. He is SO funny, and so LOUD! AHahahaha. I kept seeing ppl I thought I knew, and he would keep yelling their names out SO loud. Everyone kept turning to look. Ahahahaha. Excellently fun times!

And finally, today, the most exciting news of all....there is a new version of Tontie!!!! Treasure chests....lasers, too, apparently! And bosses! So fun! And there's some new game, Pel Pet or something like that. It's a cute blob that moves. OH, AND there's an online DDR! It's called Flash FLash Revolution! AHahahahaha. It is SO funny. I have discovered that I have absolutely NO rhythm, and I remembered why I don't do DDR in public. AHahahaha.

Trivia question of the day: What Disney movie is Scrump in? (I know, I know, "WHO is SCRUMP?!" you say?)