Trip #1- Helen's Lake House

So, we've taken our first trip of PMTBSYWERA (Friday, June 20, 2011)!! Rockingham Lake got a little taste of this crazy group of chicas. We had to attend graduation practice, and a few people got caught behind some school buses, but we eventually got on the road! Everyone brought delicious food to the lake, with the exception of Brittany's delicious-looking strawberry shortcake concoction... we accidentally left it in Helen's refrigerator at home. Anyways, our caravan got on it's way, very fast, thanks to Helen and Sydney's excessive speeding!!! We were so hungry when we finally arrived around 2. We put on our bathing suits and then enjoyed our lunch together. Of course, we had to take some pre-look-nasty-from-the-lake pictures before we went outside. We all spotted an animal making it's way across the lake towards our house. Everyone thought it was a huge beaver except me, I thought it was a dog. What do you know... it was a chocolate lab. He immediately climbed onshore and ran up to the back door. We went out to see him and someone checked his tag. It said, Brandon Powell, so we called him Brandon all day. We laid for out a little while but it quickly got wayyyy too hot for us to stay out of the water. Brandon ran around putting his muddy feet all over everyone's towels. After someone jumped in the water, the dog immediately took up residence on the empty towel. Helen has this really cool board that we used all day. It was kinda like a surf board but really big and reallllly heavy. That thing was sooo fun but a lot of people now have bruises haha. We noticed, a lot later on in the day, that "Brandon Powell" was actually the name of the dog's owner... and that the dog is in fact a "she". Of course, we couldn't stop calling him Brandon, the name had already stuck with us by then. All in all, this trip was really chill and we had lots of crazy fun... I hope that we keep making cool plans and that we will make a lot of sweeeet memories throughout PMTBSYWERA!