Wicked Weekend

Another adventure, but this time a more.. fine arts kind of adventure.



I have been dying to see Wicked ever since freshman year because so many people have been talking about how great it is.

A few friends and I talked about it and decided that we must have a wicked weekend.

We bought the tickets a few weeks beforehand and since my roommate Tyler is someone who was giving and lives in Livermore, we decided that his house was more than perfect to house for the weekend.

Since our friends Nicole and Laura Jane are both R.A.'s, we had to wait for them to finish a 5k race put on by Residence Life before we could.



After stocking up on Sonic drinks for our 6 hour car ride to Livermore for the night (Soccer moms Amanda and Rebekah pictured). We all took turns driving in a huge suburban that had a broken driver's' door and no air conditioning, and we had a lot of fun singing to the top of our lungs and telling stories.

After staying the night and staying with Tyler's wonderful family. We went to his church where his dad is the pastor. It was fun because we were dressed in our formal outfits for Wicked and the sermon was about Acts and was very interesting.

We then hopped on to the Bart, heading towards San Francisco. Once we got to San Francisco we went to eat in a cool Indian food restaurant.

Walking the streets was a little rough. The past two times I had come to San Fran before this trip was to work with the homeless and work with various organizations around it. It was a little difficult to walk around in shiny black shoes and to try and justify spending so much money on a show. It makes me think whether a lifestyle like this is something I can really enjoy.


After eating, it was time to go to the show. Although we were sitting high up in the balcony, we could still see fine. The show was awesome. The costumes, the songs, the stage design. It was all so fascinating. Since we had listened to the soundtrack on the way up, it was great to put the stage number to the song and see it come to life.

We then headed home at 7am in the morning on Monday, ready to begin our school lives again after having a wonderful, Wicked weekend.

A Grand Ol' Adventure

This past weekend a few friends and I went and hiked down the grand canyon.

It was such a great experience. I had never been to the grand canyon before and so went with a few of my friends who were going to camping around there.

The interesting thing about camping there though was that we were camping in snow.

We got in around 1am into the national park so we didn't actually have to end up paying. Then we camped out for the night. Woke up, then hiked down into the canyon. It was beautiful!


One of the coolest things was that we hiked from snow into the desert. So as we hiked down, we had to shed layers. Also when we looked up from the canyon we were able to see the snow layer and then see it gradually become more desert like, it was great.

After we hiked out (which was very hard to climb up the snow/mud trail. There was a storm warning for the night, so we knew that in the middle of the night, if we heard rain or snow hit our tent. We needed to book it. So... we heard rain falling (which actually turned out to be snow) and packed the tent as soon as possible and we were on the road. Our plan was possibly just pitch a tent somewhere out of the storm but our friend Josiah who came actually had a house in Nevada and so went to...



We basically just took this picture then headed straight to the house and went to bed. But three of us made a pact that although we are in a house, that gives us no right to shower. So we continued to smell all the way until we got home to Azusa.

This type of adventure is what I am growing to enjoy so much. I never really camped much in my life and I greatly enjoy it. God had me stay this semester instead of studying abroad and I am so thankful I am getting to partake in things I never would have done with great people. I am becoming a great more adventurous.

The more adventure, the better.