maiden I am

Read Nica's blog first so I don't feel like I'm stealing her thunder.

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Awesome. I hope you read it, BECAUSE....

I am now the only Castle girl who is Single! AND, I'm going to bask in this new found glory.

I am the only "maid in the Castle"

All the 'others' are matrons. (blah. blah. boring!)

Matrons..

maid...

in a foregin land

Here's a little taste of Minnesotan culture:

Language

so, what'cha know? (kinda like "hows it going")

Don't cha know? (translates: "you idiot, weren't you paying attention?!?")

yooouu betcha! ("totally!")

Food

mostly like here.

Except I had venison whenever meat was consumed. There are roughly 200,000 deers hunted in Minnesota during hunting season! see here for more info

But deer is yummy, and a bit gamey, and I can't think of what I'm eating while I chew (jerky is the hardest). Regardless, I feel like a modern cave-woman when I eat it (is that something to be desired?)

Weather

It actually felt warmer in Minnesota than at home. There was zero snow and no frost! When I drove into SLC, I was astounded at the white stuff on the roads.

People

My favorite part about the trip! Elias and I played a TON {eric told me that Elias and Honey both had a new best friend--ME!). Heidi and I talked a lot on our 18 hour drive back! and we also listened to the first part of "The Life of Pi", Heidi and I agreed the one good thing we got out of the book was the line "tom foolery" that was our road trip joke. Eric took me on a little bike ride to UMC where I attended one of his classes, and I was given an assignment!

also, (rachel is going to roll her eyes when I say this)

Heidi and I saw New Moon, the day it came out (without previous reservation), at 7 O'clock in the evening, AND

in the oldest running movie theater in the United States of America.

Here is a taste of the inside, with these booths were just chillin there, but the "Prepayers" (bunch a rich snobs!) got to sit up there.

Just kidding, there wasn't anybody in those booths.

AND i went shooting with Eric. I got to shoot his deer rifle and his Muzzle loader aka the "smoke pole"

Here is a video of the smoke pole

Me and Heidi saw this on the side of the interstate in North Dakota. It was cool

OH one last thing, Minnesotans know how to spell....