Asking to Prom

Well, in recent days (ok, not so recent, but I started this post about a month ago) I asked Emily Randall (not the Valentines one) to Prom! I asked her though a scavenger hunt. It was great! (It was a little pathetic too. My friends and I had problems writing poems... we were a little lightheaded or something)

Well, I had been trying to find a good night to ask her for quite a while and couldn't find a really good night. Well, I realized that she was leaving for New York soon and I had to ask her before she left so I just kind of picked that night. (The night I realized I had little time)

Well, my friends had all gotten back from taking down the Millie set (I wasn't there I had all my hours and I needed to get the rest of the hunt ready.) Well, when they got back, I asked them if they would be willing to help and of course they all said, "Heck, ya!!!"

Well, I only had an hour until I had to be home and ready for my Eagle Board of Review. (side note: Too ALL of my nephews, get your Eagle as soon as you possibly can! It will be so much easier!) So we had to work quickly. I sent people to different places to place the clues and I went to give Emily the first clue (doorbell ditch style of course).

Here's the scavenger hunt layed out for ya:

Emily,
So there's this guy and he wants to ask you to prom. Well here's what you have to do to find out who it is:

Follow the clues and out. Easy, right?
Not Quite...

If you get stuck anywhere you can always text 801-808-0712 for help.

Clue #1(attached to the letter)

(I don't have the poems anymore. They were pretty awful, but it hinted toward a movie called "Noises Off")

Clue #2
A Poem about Beth and Death and stuff... And a picture of a tombstone of Beth Porter in the Centerville cemetary.

Clue #3
A Poem telling her to go to Centerville Library and look for a book. This picture was a hint:

Clue #4
A poem about wicked and bountiful music. This picture was the hint (I decided to make it easier):



Clue#5
A poem about her house and it being full of gnomes. This was the hint (pretty straight forward... it's her house)

Then I decorated her room with gnomes (on the back were the letters of my name) and left cookies on her bed.

Well, since the time crunch after I gave her the first clue I realized I only had ten minutes to be at my board of review. I had to delegate pretty much the rest of the asking. My friends were great and did a wonderful job.

When Emily got to 3D, however, she couldn't figure out which movie to look for so she texted me while I was in the board of review. Since I wasn't able to answer it she started to get "mad" (she didn't really get mad but she really wanted me to answer the phone) Well when I got out I quickly texted her the name of the movie and she was off to the cemetary.

Well, since it took so long in 3D it was dark when she got there and it was Emily, her mom, and her dad with flashlights combing the cemetery looking for Beth Porter's Tombstone. I had to text her eventually and let her know exactly where the tombstone was.

The Library had closed by then and I had to give her clue over texts.

Bountiful Music had closed long ago but Josh had taped the clue to the outside so it was ok.

When she got home she just lauged at the sixteen gnomes around her room.

So there were a few problems but it was great! :D

Here was her answer:

Growth

Ok, so I was surfing the internet today and I thought, "Hey! I'll go to Sarah Maughan's website!" So I went and got on. Well, on her website are some audio clips of a recital I was in long ago. It was the Broadway Recital from 2006. So I thought, "Hey! Let's listen to my song, Man of La Mancha, I remember I loved performing that song!" So I opened it up and well.... here it is....

Yeah! Wow... I have gotten much better than that... It's a little embarrassing even... Ok, it's a lot embarrassing (I know it isn't proper english but I decided to go for the parallelism) I am very flat for most of the song. If I had just a bit of vowel modulation or would just lift it would have fixed a lot of problems... I have a few good notes but yeah... wow.... But it's nice to see how far you've come, right?

P.S. I will post my Prom stuff, Graduation, All-Night Party, and Las Vegas stuff when dad gets back from Florida. He took MY cord to load the pictures from my camera.

P.P.S. I think you may have to "log-in" to hear the clip. The user name is "sarah" and the password is "sarah"

Morp

Wow! I know it's super late but I've been a little busy, as I'm sure many of you have been as well.

Ok, so first, I was in my fit for life class (I know, I put it off until the last minute, but whatever) and we were rollerblading. (By the way, I'm awful at rollerblading! I have no balance whatsoever and so my progress was really slow. It was great to watch all the sophomores pass me by as I struggled to go in a straight line.) Well, there were actually a few of us that were struggling... I was just the worst. One of the other ones was Karlei Clement. She's a senior as well who decided to put this class off until the last minute. (Actually there were a bunch of seniors in there with me.) We decided to stick together (which was probably not a good idea since our instincts both told us that if we fall we should grab on to the person next to us, well the closest thing we had was eachother and all we did was drag eachother down, but that's ok, whatever right?). Anyway, we got separated because she fell down and didn't grab on to me and I didn't really know how to stop... Well she called out my name so the next chance I could I latched myself to a wall and waited for her to come around the corner. When she came into view she said, "Hey! Wanna go to morp with me?" So I said, "Of course!" Yeah it was a pretty simple, very relaxing way to ask. Very easy to think of a way to answer her.

So morp rolled around and the theme was "Around the World" we decided to dress up as- drumroll please- *drumroll* Americans! Very easy!

She picked me up at sometime (Sorry I don't remember every detail at this point...) And we crammed into Aimee's tiny little- I don't know what kind of car it was but trust me... it was small. We headed off to Lazer Quest! Yay! When we got there we had to think up aliases for ourselves. I was Dr. Jekyll (The girl at the counter couldn't spell so I was actually Dr. Jackel but whatever) Karlei was Hotstuff. So we went in with intent to kill and twenty seconds into the game we got separated. Oh well. I found two people from our group on a tower and formed an alliance with them. We held our tower well. It was great! We were in a very nice spot to snipe many, many people and could ambush people below us. The walk way up to our tower was a long winding path so it wasn't easy to get up there. Anyway I ended up fifth out of twenty and so I felt pretty good. Karlei was around sixteen but she was pumped that she didn't get last. So that was good! :D

We went to eat at Empire! I love that place! It has great food! We got Chicken Lo Mein and cream cheese wontons which I had never had! It was really good. The wontons left the best aftertaste ever! YUM!

Well, the actual dance was awesome! Each section of the gym had a different part of the world. We went and got group pictures and headed back to the dance. It was super fun! We pretty much danced and danced and we saw our friends, said hi, you know the usual stuff you do at dances.

Well after the dance we were all pretty tired so we went home! It was super fun!