Of Dares and Dinosaurs

I just finished writing my first letter to our dear missionaries. I didn't cry as much as I thought I would. Like at all actually.  Sister Merrill's letter was longer than Hermana Lloyd's but that makes sense considering she has been gone 10 days where as the other has been gone just 3.  I told them one thing that I have been told never, ever to tell a missionary, that I miss them.  Heck, I missed them before they had even left.  I pray that it doesn't make them super home sick. Although I did finish it with, "I know you are supposed to be doing this and me saying these things is completely selfish so don't let it get you down." I hope that helps...
But I also told them that we have been working really hard on something, and I know they will love it, but that's all I'm going to say. I hope it drives them nuts. and trust me, I know my friends, it will. Muwahahahaha.
But for you, dear readers, I will tell you what it is we are doing.  Kylie and I have been working on some scrapbook type things full of pictures, quotes, scriptures, testimonies, etc.  We have been doing this in the hope that when they are having hard days they can pull it out, remember us, and their families, and find inspiration and love in its pages.  But life keeps happening and we are only half way done. We plan to mail it to them, and force them to take it with them. One kink in this is that Amanda had the same idea(well technically we stole it from her Pinterest, but still) she made us all picture books of our last big day together at the Dinosaur museum. She left us a letter telling us to fill it with the same things that Kylie and I are putting in theirs.  It's weird how much we think alike sometimes.
P.S. no one is allowed to tell them until after they get them, because it's supposed to be a secret.  Or Kylie will back me up and help me hide the bodies and help me be angry at the injustice. But seriously, don't contact them about it.

Simultaneously while I was writing said letters, Kylie was talking to me about dinosaurs. Get comfy kids, this story will take some explanation. You see, there is this show on BBC called Primeval. It's amazing watch it, plus Andrew Lee Potts. Anyway, its about how there are these gateways between the era's of the dino's and our modern day world and how dinosaurs escape and wreck London. Now America has started a spin off on Syfy called Primeval: New World.  At first I was worried that this was American television taking British TV and calling it original and ruining it. (trust me, they've done it before) I was wrong, its and actual spin off and I am really excited to watch it.  Kylie was watching and episode today with Elephant Birds. At least that's what the museum at Thanksgiving Point called them. She was telling me how scary they were because she watched them eat a guy.  well if you know us at all this turned into a discussion on whether or not as giant bird could eat someone.

Kylie maintains that birds should not be able to eat people, while I counter by saying that bigger birds need more than worms, etc. Then she catches me off guard by saying that it almost killed Zane

Okay, now Zane needs an explanation.  Zane is a character on another Syfy show called Eureka, currently over. Watch it to, its on Netflix. Do it, cause its totally worth it.   Zane is amazing and super attractive. And a bad boy. (I really hope no boys are reading this, cause it makes me seem shallow. I'M NOT SHALLOW, I just know how to appreciate beauty, my father is a photographer) Any-who, we call him Zane because we have never bothered to remember the actors name and we have both seen the show. 

Anyway, the dinosaurs almost kills him (honestly our lives aren't filled with dinosaurs, I promise, it just seems like a theme.) and I tell Kylie that Zane is "invincible with his super abs." Seriously, he should be a super hero, cause...yeah... She says his legs are vulnerable, I assume that's what the dino attacked. I maintain that he is invincible and that if they killed him I would never forgive them.

Now this comes back to my letter writing. She was distracting me with the conversation as I am trying to be Spiritual as I write my best friends.  I tell her so and she immediately tells me to write to them about it.  I didn't think it appropriate to write about super abs to our to girl missionaries so I tell her no.  Then I say I could put it on the blog since the whole point of this is to write what we can't, or shouldn't put in our letters down. So Kylie replies and tells me, and I quote, "BLOG ABOUT IT, DO IT" Yes, it was in caps.  Therefore, she basically dared me to write this elaborate explanation down of our conversation, hence the title.

I know this was long and kind of everywhere, but I dare you to make a conversation with my friends coherent. Any of them. We talk about how we are going to take over the world with llamas for crying out loud. We talk about how dinosaurs should have salvation in the eternities so that we can ride them around. We talk about Starkid. That should be explanation enough. 

-Korrin