My mom gave me a perm on Thursday July 16, 1987 when we were thru and she took the curlers out of my hair I had little tiny ringlets, it reminded me of the Lion on the Wizard of Oz. Saturday July 18, we left to go down to the Manti Pageant. Dad and Mr. Byington were fixing the car and we couldn't go until the car was fixed. About 3:00 we were finally ready to leave we got all the way to Spanish Fork when all the boys went into McDonald's to go to the bathroom and we did some necessary shopping at K-Mart, we kept driving till we got to Manti.
There was already tons of people, we parked the car and was standing around the car deciding if we should eat our hoagie sandwiches or not. No one was very hungry so we packed up and found us a spot on the lawn. Me and Brett was playing Blackjack speed 2 and card tricks. Mom had to take the boys to the bathroom again and after a long time Brett went to go look for them. He came back and said he couldn't find them so we went to look for them together, there was a mile long line at the bathrooms so we decided to check the car and sure enough they were there eating a hoagie sandwich. We ate ours than too, By the time we started heading back and got back to our spot on the lawn the pageant had just started. The pageant was about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, the Nephites and the Lamanites.
We had already decided to stay and find a place to sleep down there instead of trying to drive back late at night, we drove around for a long time and finally went to a park. The three boys got beds made up in the car, we put plastic out on the grass with some quilts to go underneath us. Brett slept in a sleeping bag, I had just my quilt, and mom and dad had thin blankets over them. I was trying to sleep but I was shivering so bad and I felt nauseated (the joys of being a girl every month). My mom told me to go sleep in the car, I tried to sleep sitting up on the floor with my head on the seat. It had been a long night and when it was finally morning I was still cold even after sleeping in the car, Tim needed to go to the bathroom first thing and he asked if someone could go with him, but mom just said he would be fine to just go by himself. He got disoriented and went looking in the wrong direction when he was trying to find our car . Mom had to go chase him down and bring him back, Nathan was bawling because he wanted to go home and he was freezing. I was becoming a mad irritated sister as well, Finally after a long slow moving process we finally was all packed up and ready to go. We stopped at a park in Spanish Fork and mom cooked eggs, bacon, hash browns and we ate on the picnic tables. We sat under the crab apple trees and layed under the trees on our quilts and swung on the swings.
This story seems like the message here is my family always disappears when they wander away to go to the bathroom, (ha-ha) but this was always the kind of fun that I always had with my family and the things that we did while I was growing up. Summers to me are sleeping out in the tent in the backyard, eating dinner outside on the picnic table, we always did that with the whole family in the shade of our huge trees mainly because the house was always hot and we didn't have air conditioning except for box fans in the windows. Eating lots of watermelon and corn on the cob, I always associate those with summer. We always had a lot from our own garden besides corn we had peas, zucchini,and tomatoes and various vegetables too. Apricots, cherries, and plums from our own fruit trees, lots and lots of homemade apricot jam, and canned tomatoes, and peaches. I remember our kitchen floor was always sticky from all the canning my mom and dad did even though my mom mopped the floor, it was so sticky it could rip your shoe off of your foot.
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