Mint Julep

I made this today. It was delicious and I want to drink it every day of my life


Ingredients
5 lemons
1 bunch fresh peppermint
1-1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
3 qts. ginger ale
ice
Method
Squeeze juice from lemons and strain to remove any seeds or pulp. Add lightly crushed mint leaves, sugar, and water and let stand 30 minutes. (Use a large stainless steel or glass bowl. Don’t use aluminum.) Pour over a large piece of ice in a glass punch bowl and add ginger ale. Serve in small glasses. This is a recipe from the early 1900s.

 

Birthday :D

Today has been AWESOME. For those of you who didn't know, today was my birthday!! I am now officially an adult! But before I talk about that, lets go over last night details. The night started with a huge group of boys and some of their dates coming over to our apartment. Then we kind of awkwardly met our dates because three out of six couples were blind dates. Me being one of them. My dates name was Braden and he was awesome. After we all met each other we got into our respective cars (door being opened for me by said date) and headed to the civil defense caves. These caves are out in the middle of no where but they were formed underground with lava. I figured we were driving to some hills or something to find caves but these were all underground, which I was not expecting! We explored through the caves for a little while until we got to a pretty good spot and then turned off all of the lights and broke glow sticks all over ourselves, the ground and the ceiling. It was super rad. You couldn't see anything past where we had splashed the glow sticks so if someone was hiding in the "dark" you could completely see them because they were covered in glow stuff. Once we were sufficiently covered we played hide and seek. It was probably the most fun I have ever had playing hide and seek in my life! Multiple times I almost stepped on people or hands or hair because its so dark and all you see are thousands of little glowing dots that could potentially be on someones coat or shoes or hair, which I found out after stepping in Haleigh's hair :D I think the coolest part was that we decided to play on this giant pile of boulders so there were quite a few crevasses and zillions of places to slide between or under rocks so you were hidden. It was AWESOME. So we played that a few times and then headed home. Another aspect that made this date amazing was the ride to and from the caves on a crazy Alaskan-like dirt road. My date was all about speeding through the puddles and getting his car as dirty as possible. On the way back we also had a fun time quoting fabulous people such as Jim Gaffigan and Bryan Regan. It was a blast. We also learned that Wendy's in Rexburg closes at 11 on week nights. We were desiring some frosty-deliciousness but they were closed, so we headed to McDonalds instead to get vanilla cones. Then we headed back to my apartment where my date gave me a hug and we said good bye. I had such a fun time and next time I want to go to the ice caves!! Here are some of the things we were quoting :D

Bryan Regan

Jim Gaffigan

So about today, I got up at like 10:45 which was glorious and saw that I had voice mails from my grandma and my mother. I am terrible at responding right away to phone messages but I loved hearing them wish me a happy birthday foist thing! The I saw on the back of my door was an adorable sign that said, "Happy Birthday Linnea!" It instantly made me happy :D Then when I opened the door I saw a thing of raspberries with a cute little note from my room mate waiting for me on the floor. It was precious and the berries were delicious. Then I headed downstairs where most of my roomies were and they all wished me happy birthday! My good friend Micah called as asked if she could bring me lunch which I gratefully accepted and she came over and we had pizza for lunch! It as great to see Micah and to be able to spend time with her on my birthday, she means so much to me and I love her so much!

The next part of my day was kinda random, I got ready and then biked to Walmart

I then finally biked home, but not before making one last stop at Snoasis for a coconut pomegranate snow cone. Just in case you didn't know Snoasis makes the best snow cones in the entire world. Then I played with my room mates for a little and then got sexy for the nights adventures. For my birthday my friends took me to Big Juds. This place is home of the 1 pound burger. It is huge and delicious and have I mentioned huge? Erika and Mary got one to split and I decided to get a Hawaiian burger that had pineapple, ham and teriyaki sauce on it. I'm not sure what everyone else got but they were so good! Then after we were all stuffed with hamburger we decided to get the Hungry Heifer to finish off our meal which my favorite room mate Mary decided to get us. :D The Hungry Heifer is a huge dish of ice cream that consists of 15 different scoops of ice cream and 5 different toppings, both of your choice. We tried almost ever single kind of ice cream with hot fudge, strawberries, blueberries, marshmallow and carmel. It was the most disgusting/beautiful thing I have ever seen. We didn't even eat half of it and now the rest of it is sitting in my freezer. I'm pretty sure I never want to eat ice cream again, but it was so good! Pictures will be coming later because we took some pretty amazing ones :D

After Bug Juds, Kevin, Jordan, Kelly, Stewart and I went to the haunted straw maze. I had been before but on a Friday when it was super busy, tonight was Thursday so we were basically the only people in there, which I think made it more scary/more fun. I decided to take up the lead (because I have no brain) and we ended up making friends with some of the spooks. It was all a blast and then we eventually found our way out. I had a blast getting lost multiple times and I really am glad I decided to go in the front, even though there were three very capable, strong men that could have gone first.

After I got home we were just sitting around and I was starting the write this blog so I could get it up before it turned into Friday but then my FHE brothers came over with a card for me for my birthday. They are so awesome and I love that they thought of my on my birthday. When they walked in they said they were gonna sing for me but then I had to coax it out of them because I think that was an empty offer. I don't think they realized I love singing. It was probably the most entertaining rendition of Happy Birthday I have ever heard, and I'm a choir nerd. To sum that up, my FHE brothers are he bomb.

This is the excellent card

So to summarize, today was stupendous and I only wish you all could have shared it with me. I am so happy that I am 20 now and not real a child anymore. Mary and I were talking about how in the next few months we will probably start telling people we are 21. That's what has been happening since were like 17. People think I'm older, I don't want to disappoint them! Have a fabulous evening and rest of your day, I know I will.  

Also, this is what I am wearing right now, just getting ready for Halloween, AKA, best costume year EVER