Last week was EFY and it was so much fun! My cousins Erin, Krisie, Landon, Dallon, Joe, and Tory all came up with me and we stayed at our Aunt Mary's. On the first day of EFY we all showed up at the institute building in Sandy, UT and signed in. Then we got in our groups and went to go meet our counselor. Erin, Kristie, and I were all in the same group! It was way fun.
Our counselors name was Brandi and she was so cool! Once we met all the other girls in our group we went to go meet the boys! It was really funny on our way to go meet them because of course we were all looking to see who was cute. Once we met with them their counselor Jon gave everyone a piece of paper with questions on it and we all had to go around and talk to everyone to get the answers to the questions. By the end of the game, which was like 30 minutes, everyone already knew everyone else and we were all way close. It was way cool! Everyone was so friendly and outgoing, we had the best group for sure! Once we got in our company, which is the boys and girls combined, we went inside the building to go meet our director and all that good stuff. By the end of the first day our company had already made up our cheer and we were all good friends with nick-names. Mine was C.Seay. Tuesday was a fun day although I don't remember very much haha. There was a dance though and it was really fun. All of the counselors got on the stage and taught us dances to some songs. It was really fun all of the counselors were way cool! Wednesday we had classes were you just go in a room and a speaker talks to you about a specific subject. There was this one lady who was teaching us scripture mastery songs and she was hilarious! I don't even know how to describe her! She was this petite girl with short blonde hair and she sang with a mexican accent! She was awesome. Another good thing about wednesday is I met Thatcher.
He was an employee with the catering company that fed us. He was a total stud! That day Erin, Kristie, and I also auditioned for the variety show. It was really intimidating! We went in and did our dance, but when we got done the judges just kind of looked at us and were like okay thanks. Then we just left. It was so scary! But we ended up making it :). It was also game day! We went to a park near the institure building and played a ton of games and had our cheer off. Our company made it to the final three and then we took first place!! Our group was amazing! The next day was thursday which was the variety show, music program and testimony meeting. It was one of the best days! The variety show went very well, there were a lot of great acts! After that we had dinner and stuff and then it was the testimony meeting. I cried like a baby the whole time! Especially when people in our group went up. After testimony meeting we all just went outside and hung out. That night Kristie, Erin, and I went and hung out with some of Kristie's friends that lived near us. It was pretty fun we just went to a park and played cops and robbers. Before we left Aunt Mary's house she told us our curfew was 2am! We ended up coming home at 12 but still it was really cool how she gave us that late of a curfew! Friday was a good day but it was a bummer because it was the last day. We took a ton of pictures and did an awesome service project! We colored houses for kids! Haha it was really fun.
Then we had another dance. We were taught the fox trot and tripple step earlier in the week so we had a dance off. I took best female dancer in the fox trot and a girl and a guy from our company took best couple in the triple step! Our company really was the best! :) After the dance we watched a slide show made by the awesome Ryan, who was a counselor. He was so cool! Every time I danced with this one kid in our company he would always sing directly to us! We even tried going out in the hall so he couldn't see us...that didn't work...he just followed us out there haha it was so funny! After the slide show our director Sister Shupe gave us some final words and then we did an address exchange with everyone! Then we said good-bye to everyone which was really sad. But it was one of the best weeks ever! It was so much fun and I learned a lot! I met some really cool people and bonded with my cousins!
There were all kinds of animals and photographs. It was really cool. 
After we went there we just walked around and went to all the little shops in Balboa park. We met some cool people in the stores that told us really cool stories about the stuff they sold in their stores. They were all way nice. 
After we finished that we decided to go to the Aerospace museum. On our way over there though we saw the History of Man museum which looked a whole lot cooler, so we went there instead. I am so glad we did. It was really cool! They had this whole ancient mayan section which I loved! 
They also had an egypt section with mummies and everything. There was even this room where you could go in and live in the life of a child during those times, it was cool. 
There was also a fossil digging section, the beginning of man section- which showed the evolution of man - and a whole lot more. It was really exciting! There was also a book sale going on outside that we went and checked out. Turns out the books were only like a dollar each so I bought a couple of books that looked good. All in all it was a really funny day, and educational. :) 
