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Hey Twilighters,

My posts have been short for a reason BESIDES laziness!
It's all been leading up to something unnecessarily long!
After three weeks of deep thought and organization *snort*, I now present:

Mrs. Cullen's Awesomespice Arizona Experience Part I

Since I am obviously not the same person I had been just two months ago, you'll have to catch up with my changes virtually, because I'm too anti-socially awkward to come out of my room right now.

1. I. ATE. A. CHIMICHANGA. At an authentic Mexican Restaurant. Life changing.
2. I watched Eclipse. Also life changing.
3. I didn't fall off the edge of the Grand Canyon.
4. My dad wore short-shorts, a straw cowboy hat, a sort-of-cowboy-ish mustache, a backpack, a canteen, binoculars, and a camera strapped to his chest every day FOR ONE WHOLE WEEK. Imagine what that did to my already horrible self-consciousness and shyness.
5. I'm... tanner. Ugh. There goes my already poor vampire-ness, and Picture Day.
6. I've gained 10 lbs. from eating Chinese and Mexican food almost every day when we went to Virginia to visit my uncle and aunt.
7. I cut my hair. Gasp.
8. I wore two dresses out in public.
9. I have a pet cactus named Fred. I'll tell you about him later in Part II-- he's so cool.
10. I've been listening to the audio books for the Twilight Series, so now my mental voice sounds annoyingly like Ilyana Kadushin. X(

With that established, let's begin.
P.S. This is ALL MY PHOTOGRAPHY. I feel so artsy!

The skies were so cool... (Canyon de Chelly-- pronounced Canyon D'SHAY. Pssshh, who cares!)

(Grand Canyon)

The dizziness was..... dizzying. (Grand Canyon)

The colors of the sunsets made me feel sorry for the range of Photoshop's color pallet and reminded me of the color of someone's eyes... *wink wink* We were driving to our hotel in Tombstone when I took this picture.

Also, when we were driving to the Grand Canyon's Southern Rim overlook, we passed this sign. You can just imagine the expression on my face...

This is the view we had from the balcony of our hotel in Monument Valley. Purty, no?

Another view from our hotel balcony...

We also woke up early to see the sunrise (after staying up until 10:00p.m. to watch the sunset because of my overexcited father) Here's what was running through my head at 6:30 a.m. (the italics are my thoughts in case you didn't already know...)

Mrs. Cullen: Nature's first green is gold, her *yawn* hardest hue to--
Overexcited Cowboy-dad: KEL! IT'S STARTING! Hee hee hee! Haw haw haw! CALL YOUR MOTHER!
Mrs. Cullen: --hold.
Mom: Snore

French narrator's voice: Half an hour later
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Mrs. Cullen: HER EARLY LEAF'S A FLOWER! BUT ONLY FREAKIN' SO AN HOUR! ZOMG TOPAZ! GOLD!!! HA HA HAAAA!!!!!
Overexcited Cowboy-dad: It's starting! Let's count down from 10! Ha ha HA! *looks through binoculars* Look at THAT!!!!!!
Mom: Yawn

Mrs. Cullen: THEN LEAF SUBSIDES TO LEAF, AND EDEN SANK TO GRIEF, SO DAWN GOES DOWN TO STAY! NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY!!! *bounces in seat*
Overexcited Cowboy-dad: TEN! NINE! EIGHT! SEVEN! *jumps up and down as well* Kelly, don't look at it for too long! It'll damage your eyes!
Mrs. Cullen: Sure. Whatever. OH MY FREAKIN' GOD THE COLOR OF EDWARD'S FREAKIN' EYES!!!
Mom: *peeks through window* Hmm. *goes back to sleep*

Mrs. Cullen: asld;kfja bawowpwoitprettiful!!!!qwytbklb am;sdlkgahhfasdfa'g
Overexcited Cowboy-dad: SIX, FIVE, FOUR, THREE!HA HA AH AHAAHAA HAH!!!!!

Mrs. Cullen: *eyes burning in sockets* GOLD!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Overexcited Cowboy-dad: TWO, ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOO!!!!
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Okay, you want to see my father in Overexcited Cowboy-dad Mode?
Fine.

We're standing near the edge of the Grand Canyon this time... so he's all giddy and awestruck. I'm just... standing there looking at it.