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Meet Ricky Rose Petal





Have a good day!!!!

most embarassing moment...ever.

Whilst living in downtown Philadelphia, I happen to use taxi cabs and upon sliding into the backseat of one particular cab on saturday night, i sat on a wallet! "oh my gosh a wallet!" i said to my friends. Being the awesome and responsible citizen that i am and also in part of being raised by one Gregory and Patrice Young, I took it upon myself to return the wallet to its' owner. Business card? yes...but no cell phone number, also a 21 yr old dorky looking student from U. of Penn with a student ID and a drivers license from none other than Beverly Hills 90210!! (Carly loved that) So, on the following morning, i dragged the bulging wallet with me to Baltimore following my plans of doggie sitting for mom and dad while they drove to Ohio. While driving, I got the bright idea to contact the number on the back of the U. of Penn ID (you know, if lost or found, please call so and so, that number.) I tell them the situation and about 2 hours later, call me back to tell me they contacted the dude and he'd like to call me. "sure!" i said. the dude calls and is willing to drive down to Baltimore to reunite with his wallet once and for all. One of my friends the night before says to me, "this must be fate! this is the man you'll marry!!" I was quick to tell her she was insane, plus he has two picture id's and he looked very....um...not my type in both. Also, Carly (who was also at mom and dad's) says, "you just watch, he'll be hot. and that'll be funny." again, i tell her, whatever, he's clearly a dork.


Finally, i get a phone call from him telling me he's here! without even hanging up the phone (cell phone, so without 'ending' the phone call) i run outside to meet him and give him his wallet. holy crap...he's hot. my armpits sweat perfusely. he tries to give me money (there was about 250 bucks in his wallet...still(because of me!). i told him no way would i take his money. I just told him to send me a present:) Then i say goodbye and run back in the house where carly (who was spying the whole time) meets me inside and we both GUSH over how hot he was and carly says something about how he looks better without a Jewfro and how he should ask me out to dinner. With my cell phone in hand, i said "i'm going to call my crazy friend Britt to tell her about this!" As i look down at my phone, which has been in my hand this whole time, I see that our phones never ended!!! We were still in a "conversation" !! he either just heard everything we just said about him (including his jewfro) or it's on his voicemail or something. Carly and i freak out and her eyes tear from shear embarassment and i had to calm her down, reminding her she'll never see him again, who cares. About an hour later, he sends me a text to say thank you again and suggests he takes me out to dinner to thank me.

he heard.

Canoeing and Camping in Maine!!!

This past weekend, a group of 5 girls (yes 5 girls) took a long, long, very long drive up to Saco River Maine for some canoeing and camping. It pretty much rained the whole weekend, so there was a lot less canoeing then anticipated and more time spent in the tents playing card games ands taking funny random pictures. Saturday morning, however, our prayers were answered when the sun finally came out and we got a good 3-4 hours of awesome weather. Then of course, the rain came back, then left, then came back...you get the picture. Along with the rain came the wonderful MOSQUITOS!!! They were so bad, you could barely open your mouth without a few of them flying in. Each of us 5 girls came home looking like we were covered in hives. It was torture!! Anyway, all in all, it was definitely an adventure. Lesson learned: always bring men camping with you. They do all the work and you just sit back and feed them!!!















My friends LOVED wrestling me to the ground and throwing me in the river. In their defense, I always started the fights...but always lost.














You can see my ripped arms in this picture as I'm bungee cording the canoes together. Consider this your ticket to the gunshow.







This guy was dubbed (by me of course) as the 40 year old virgin. I kindda gave him a hard time and when he asked me if I was registered to be staying at that campsite, I pretty much told him that he could "register me" anytime he wanted to. Lets just say the whole campsite was laughing at me as I was torturing him.

We Ate Pancreas/Chicago Trip

FINALLY!! I know you all have been biting your nails waiting for my pics to arrive from my roadtrip to Chicago...you can stop biting now.

SO here's my friend Britt and I (yes her name is also Brittany so we call her Britt and I'm Brittnie, got it) This is the beginning of the trip to baltimore to drop rusty off and then off to Chicago where Britt is originally from. It was quite the long drive. With Britt is her "amazing" dog Lily. And when I say amazing, i really mean awful. I've never disliked a dog like I dislike her. Untamed doesn't even describe her. Also these are the pics of Cameron's house from Ferris Bueler's Day Off!! I saw the backyard but it wouldn't have been a good picture since it's basically all woods. If only you know how bad I wanted to knock of those people's door so get a good picture of the backyard...but didn't. Britt's mom thought I was pretty weird for wanting to get a picture of a house. I don't care!













The next day after we arrive, Britt and I got get a "Foot Detox". Mainly for Britt because she had hives on her legs, but of course I HAD to do it. If you don't know what it is, it's positive ions coursed throughout your body to detoxify your body of negative ions, or some crap like that. I was quite skeptical, but then I saw the water after only 30 minutes. It looks like sewage...like a homeless man's bedpan. It's seriously gross. After the detox, I felt like A MILLION DOLLARS. You honestly feel insanely great! Like you just took 2 valium and are falling in love. ON the way home, I saw a grill called SPanky's Grill...so of course I had to take a picture!! Spanky's Grill! love it...
















Britt's brother had a 9mm gloc of some sort and thought he'd impress us by taking us shooting...it was freakin awesome though. On the way to the shooting ranch, the Dr. Pepper inbetween my legs spilled...of course. When will I learn my lesson?!?!?! After shooting we were exhausted so we went and got BBQ, i had the pulled bbq chicken which was really good but I tried britt's brother's brisket sandwich and coveted it...



















We went and saw UP! IN 3-D!!!










And of course the Sear's Tower (I wanted to put my forehead against the window so so so bad but there was a railing in the way and I thought I'd get into trouble so I chicken'd out) and other touristy stuff with details that I won't bore you with...























Chicago Subway!!!











Overall, fun trip...could've been better but at least I can say been there, done that. Sorry the pics are so small...not sure why. Throughout the whole week I was there, Twist N' Shout was played at least once a day and I was throwing around quotes from movies filmed in Chicago like I was getting paid for it. I even asked around for the whereabouts of where the parade was filmed, everyone said "I dunno, somewhere around here". Well, duh.

Anna and Clara's U.S. Embarkment

"I'M SO HAPPYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!" -mom




























I still can't tell what color his eyes are







Porter being a Grandma's boy and Penny sniffing Clara's butt






Professional Cup Stacker in training







Clara's "Trying to walk here!" face...gotta love the double chin






Clara and her new favorite spot to sit







Clara? Where are you going?






Nowhere...