The End of Summer

To my dearest Natalie, This blog is made for you. I am a procrastinator, and I guess I needed a little push. You are the best girl ever!!! Summer has come and gone. It always feels like the world wants all youth to suffer miserably in a prison cell. School isn't all bad, but it doesn't help that everyone only asks how long until school starts. I try to completely forget myself in the wonders of the sun. The end of summer was truly the best part for sure. It's like the end of vacation had to say,"If I'm going out, I'm going out with a BANG!!!" It all started with my bestie Aubrey. She and I had talked for a while about trying these wonderful cupcakes that are called French Toast. One of the options of toppings was bacon. To everyone else, it sounds disgusting, but we both wanted to try it very much. We spent a whole afternoon making them. They tasted totally FANTABULOUS!!!
The next week I had the wonderful experience of getting up at 3:20am, and flying to Portland to see Suzy for the first time in four months. We went to the huge Oregon zoo. I got to see elephants, giraffes, hippos, bears, cougars, leopards, cheetahs, and several boxes that supposedly held scorpions. We next visited, a rose garden, and a beautiful Japanese garden. They were both so beautiful and peaceful. After that we went to a ritzy part of Portland, and we went shopping. At an ice cream shop called the Salt & Straw we had ice cream waffle cones. After that, we each got a box of four truffles from a store called Moonstruck.
All this was so amazing and so fun. I took a lot of great pictures, but me being the genius I am, I accidentally erased all of them. I am super bummed about that. FYI: do NOT erase anything unless you have it saved elsewhere. All I know is that the end of summer couldn't be better.