Day 26

I'd like to start by sending a special birthday shout-out to my dad and my Grandpa Tom- I love you guys and I hope that you have a great birthday!!!
So unfortunately today has been kind of boring. There is a 7 page research paper due Thursday, so I opted to spend my day getting through most of that. I know, I know, this is so uncharacteristic of me. Those of you who know me well are shocked that I would even start this paper before Wednesday afternoon. But I have turned a new leaf and I am determined to use this summer to get rid of my horrible procrastinating ways. I've finished 6 pages of the paper so far. Yay me! I also got through some of the endless list of Old Testament readings for this week.
The one thing that made my day not entirely monotonous was a picnic. We always pack sack lunches on free days since the Oasis is closed for lunch, so a few of us who were all diligently working in the library took a break to go out on the lawn and eat our lunches looking out over the city and the Dome of the Rock, which was shining really bright today in the sunlight. We learned that there was a Muslim prince who sold one of his palaces or something to put real gold on the Dome. It really is the most beautiful building in the city and you can see it from almost everywhere because it stands higher than any of the other buildings near to it.
For FHE tonight we are playing Disney Scene-It (yes, someone actually used their 60" of packing space to bring that game with them), and then I will be working on homework for the rest of the night. not very exciting, but hopefully all of my hard work will leave me lots of free time later on this week to go out on adventures.