I think this avoiding studying for finals thing has gone a little too far. It all started Wednesday afternoon when my adorable roommate and I took an adorable little boy to the Rexburg Spray Park. In all honesty, we were the ones who wanted to play, but be needed a one-and-a-half-year-old excuse to do so.


(See? Isn’t she adorable?)

I blame the spray park for the pesky sunburn that started there. Though I applied two liberal coats of my sun block and one coat of my friend’s, my chest, arms and head still turned bright red.

Then the next evening we went to fly kits—this has absolutely nothing to do with the story I am telling, but it was a lot of fun so I wanted to work it in somehow.

Then Friday afternoon I played with that adorable 18-month-old in his wading pool and taught him the finer art of shooting himself with a water gun. (Unfortunately, his little hands couldn’t reach the trigger unless he was holding it up-side-down and backwards. This gave my healing sunburn the chance to begin the unhealing process.

But yesterday was the end-all, be-all of all study distractions. My friend came up from Salt Lake City and we took a daytrip to Yellowstone National Park. I was the height of all tourist fashion, which really isn’t saying much, with my pink Sox hat and coordinating pink shorts. I made sure to put sun block on my arms, face and neck to avoid my previous blunders. Then I became distracted by sights such as this.



And this.



And even this.



And perhaps this as well.



The point being, not only did I forget all of the work I have to do for the last week of classes. Not only did I forget about the rising gas prices and the fact that I will be driving back to Chicago in two weeks. Not only did I forget the name of every single geyser the minute my friend told me the name. I also forgot to put sunscreen on my legs. I get so excited when my skin matches my ensemble exactly.

So now my legs are burning up, my homework is undone and my bathing suit is still wet from over-use this week. But I only have four more days until I am finished with school and never have to avoid studying again.