All posts tagged summer

Soaring through the clouds

Published May 30, 2015 by GenYMission

today of as a fun day, more or less.

It was an adventure, I’ll give it that.

Last night I couldn’t sleep a wink. My nerves were too jittery or something and I ended up maybe sleeping for 30 minutes to an hour.

That tends to happen to me the night before a big important event (the first day of school, the last day of school, the day before a trip…)

Anyways, today happened to be the day I left on w trip. Not only that, it was my first time in an airplane ever!

I had very mixed emotions about this new realm of possibility.

I was obviously very nervy (my nerves were jittery, which seems to mean both nervous and excited) the night before. As we pulled into the airport I was still nervous+excited. We got through security easily enough and then had to wait for our flight.

It was somewhat torturous as I just wanted to be over with that already… Mostly because I hate feeling anxious and that feeling wasn’t going away.

Finally they called us onto the plane, (actually… It might have been a jet?) but we still had 20 minutes to wait and that dragged on along with my anxiety. 

And then we heard the announcer announce all of her flight announcements and the plane started growling, or purring or whatever (the engine started)

We started backing up, which of course was the perfect time for me to start giggling madly (do remember I was on minimal amount of sleep although I can’t promise I wouldn’t have done this anyways)

After backing up and turning around and a few more adjustments, the plane (jet) was on the runway and started moving quickly, which made me giggle even more madly realizing we were about to leave the ground (did I mention I’m kind of afraid of heights?)

It actually wasn’t too bad when the plane lurched into the air. I was still nervous for a few minutes after that, but then I just kept looking at the view and being happy.

At the first cloud we flew through, I appropriately exclaimed “we’re in a cloud!”

After a while I started taking a bunch of pictures, here are my favorites:


This was the first picture I took of a lovely cloud and some mountains. Also if you look closely at the jet planes wing, on the tip is a picture of a mountain goat thing 🙂

That lake is shaped like a seal. I had to take a picture of that!

This was the coolest moment of the entire flight because I looked down and saw the shadow of the airplane on a cloud surrounded by a circle of rainbow! It was at this point I got excited and started take ng a bunch of pictures (we were in a mass of puffy white clouds!)

There’s the plane in the rainbow circle again! I suppose it could represent my fears as the shadow of the plain and God making it okay by surrounding them in a circle of rainbows. Which is like, peace I guess. Basically, protection. I really liked that I saw that. It was the highlight of the flight.

This is pretty

We were descending  at this point, and see a big pretty lake! 🙂
Anyways, so that’s what happened to me today. That and a bunch of stuff that’s not nearly as cool as the flight. 

Thank you for reading, you’re awesome and beautiful! Bye!

Drive in movie, check!

Published May 25, 2015 by GenYMission

Considering this is the week that summer vacation starts, it was a totally fair thing to start my bucket list today!

(Not that it matters, I haven’t yet checked anything off the priority 25)

So today, I went with my mom to the drive in movies!

It was more comfortable than sitting in a movie theater.

Here’s the big screen (and our windshield was dirty)

We saw tomorrow land! Which was great, and inspiring. Not giving a way any spoilers.

Let’s see, did this make summer more awesome? Sure! Of course it did, it was a movie I could watch from the car.

Other than the fact that our car radio automatically shuts off about every 10 minutes, it was pretty great.

I noticed that it’s easier to sneak snacks into the drive in than the regular movie theater. Although, I don’t usually have many problems with that. 🙂

Anyways, I did take (over) 10 pictures today to, so here’s a few lovely pictures of… Trees


100+ awesome ideas for summer vacation

Published May 23, 2015 by GenYMission




Finish a story

Create characters to use in a story

Make a comic strip

Carve a watermelon (THIS SOUNDS AWESOME)



Leave encouraging notes for people to find in random places

Meet my sister at the park

Visit 3 colleges I’ve never considered before

Visit 3 colleges I have considered

Post on my blog regularly (Seriously)

Meet someone new

Do some random acts of kindness

Make people smile

Go to Philadelphia

Make a plan for writing club next year.

Go to the beach

Drive on the road with real cars

Straighten my hair

See “Inside Out” movie

Have a regular daily devotional

Pray more often

Dress up

As a fictional character

just to be fancy

Build a fairy garden!

Catch fireflies


Write a movie script (Or at least start one)

Build your wardrobe with a trip to the thrift store

Take 10 pictures per day

Write a letter to 5 famous people

Email 5 famous people.

Build an epic sandcastle

Make a smoothie.

Make some ice cream (Homemade)

Do yoga-ing

Make root beer floats!

Try a flavor of frappecino you’ve never had.

try a new pizza topping

Go horseback riding

Go into EVERY store at the polaris mall (Sarah)

Enter a writing contest

Paint your nails in a fancy way.

Write a short story

Try some origami

Learn 10 new (odd) words

Make a super ice cream sundae…deluxe

make a pizza flavor

Design a t-shirt

Eye Bombing

Go to every movie on our movie bucket list

Flower Chain

Squirt gun painting

play Laser tag

Go to a few Fairs

Build some Marshmallow Guns and have a marshmallow war


Spaghetti tacos (ICarly, anyone?)

Make a butterfly feeder (Awwwwww)

Drive in movie

Make pop tarts

Scuba diving

Time capsule

Learn magic tricks


Spa day

Volunteer at homeless shelter

Give 20 compliments in 1 day

Go to build-a-bear

Henna Tattoos

Watch a scary movie

Mackinac island


Start a journal to bring out your creative side

Sew a clothing item (This should have interesting results)

sew an accessory (As should his)

learn a new recipe and cook dinner

Try a new food

Collect seashells

see the Sunrise on the beach

Play twister

Eat breakfast for dinner

start a “blessings jar”

Do something DIFFERENT with hair

Try to surf

Flashlight tag


Lay under the stars and just STARE AT THEM

Observe men who are good looking

Watch people’s behavior

See how people act towards you if you try with your appearance

Tie dye stuff

Direct a few videos

Take a few random videos

Make a pie, and let it cool on a windowsill

Play a random beach game with strangers

Enter a sandcastle competition

Make frozen coffee ice-cubes

Invent a recipe

Make some rock candy

Make jolly rancher suckers

Invent a recipe

Join a “Big Buddy” program

Go on an alphabet picture hunt


Try and upcycle something (And laugh at the results)


Have a picnic with: A blanket, and a basket

Make a summer 2015 slideshow, to music!


Watch a chick flick

Draw with sidewalk chalk (having a theme)

Play mini-golf


Try to have a pet firefly XD

Make a volcano, just because

Come up with some AMAZING writing prompts

Then write short stories using said prompts

Have a fashion show at different stores

A thrift store


J.C. Penny’s


Buy something from Hot Topic



Spend an entire day in Barnes and noble and just read stuff

Learn some language things on duolingo

Do a wood, nail, string craft

Be 100% Vegetarian for 1 week

Be 100% VEGAN FOR A WEEK (Oh goodness gracious)

Interview someone

Learn a dance

Make up a dance

Make up a holiday, and celebrate it

Be able to jog the entirety of the reservoir once.

Go to a store, have a photo scavenger hunt contest

Nature photo scavenger hunt contest

Around the house photo scavenger hunt contest

Shelby photo scavenger hunt contest.


A regular scavenger hunt (Not a photo scavenger hunt)




Have a water fight


Glow in the dark ring toss

Make a scrapbook of the summer

Go to the zoo

Go rollerblading

Go bowling

Go garage saling

Play hide and seek in walmart AT NIGHT

Take photo booth pictures

Go frog hunting


Go on a hike

Get a pet

Paint a picture on canvas

Buy a polaroid camera and take some pictures with it

Tell a story as you make it up

Learn to play Euchre

Eat fondue

Cook over a campfire

Go on a boat ride

Send your friends postcards randomly

Complete a 500, 750 and 1000 piece puzzle

Plant a kitchen garden in mason jars


Go to a flea market

Do some workout exercises

Visit planet fitness

Make a bunch of lists

Plant a tree


Get on a chatroom

Make some papier mache craft

Play glow-in-the-dark bowling

Watch nature

Write letters to a soldier

Send some care-packages to soldiers

Make a blanket fort

Create a secret club with secret code names

Go on a secret spy mission

Create an obstacle course

Finger paint

Do some sudoku, crossword, word searches

Make a really hard maze (On Paper)

Volunteer at an animal shelter

Go on a google maps trip

Make up a secret code

Write a haiku

Write a limerick


Eat at a restaurant you’ve never tried

Have a sunrise picnic at lake Erie


Take a class to learn something new (Preferably free)

Learn some self defense

Doodle in a sketchbook

Try a different ice cream flavor

Go try something new

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