Kate waves at the president, chillz w/ strange new HP fans, hangz at libraries, gets high on swings

Yesterday was a great day. But first...

WOOT WOOT WOOTY WOOTY! The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie has been rated PG-13! I've been waiting for this for so long! OH how I ran and leaped and cheered and squealed and "BWA HA HA HA HA"-ed around my house when I found that out! 98 days, 10 hours, 12 minutes! Yay!
I guess I'm just eager for non-fans to understand that HP isn't for little kids. And... I can't say I'm too surprised with this one finally making PG-13, because Goblet of Fire is, like, The Scariest Book Ever. Wow. :-o Yes indeedy.


But anyway! On to yesterday!

In the morning while doing my customary peek outside my front window (to check on the weather, and just make sure the world is still out there... I mean if anything happened I'd probably sleep through it) I happened to see... three military helicopters flying single file across the sky. So I thought, "Hey, wait a minute... I've never seen a military helicopter flying before... let alone three of them in a row like that... I've never seen helicopters do that... Oh I bet it's someone famous! I BET IT'S THE PRESIDENT!!!!!" So I ran outside in my nightgown and fuzzy slippers and waved wildly at the helicopters as they flew by. I bet I was a sight, but I was excited.

And then later in the afternoon I was telling Beth about it and her mom said that the president had been in Aurora this morning, so it totally was him! So I called my mom right from Beth's house to tell her all about it. And then later at youth group Travis confirmed that it was supposed to be three military helicopters. So... dead exciting. :-D President of the UNITED STATES. Most powerful fellow in the world evidently. :) Whee. I wonder if he saw me.


After that my mom and I went to pick up Beth to go to a Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince book discussion at the Carol Stream Public Library. But first we had to get more gasoline for the car. Except we haven't actually done that before so it took a really long time haha.
We had to call my dad for help twice. The first time we called it was because we couldn't get the gas cap off. *facepalms* Whatever, it was hard.
The second time we called it was because the gas wouldn't actually come out of the pump. And then he couldn't help us with that one so my mom had to go get the lady working inside to help us. But she had trouble with it too so it wasn't all our fault! :-p :)


Then Beth and I went to that discussion thing. Which was fun. Katie Kanturek was there, I used to baby-sit her when I was her age and she was four. I did a horrible job with that, now she helps me baby-sit and is better at it than I am even now. But anyway, you had to have read book six and been at least 10 years old to be allowed to participate, so I figured it was going to be pretty good because age 10 is about the youngest you can be to appreciate a Harry Potter book properly at all. So there were seven 10, 11, and 12-year olds, me and Beth (age 18), and two 19-year-olds. (I think there may have been another chat in the evening for "adults" but I'm not sure.) And it was actually really cool. And I got a cookie and a sweet metal Hogwarts bookmark out of it. Yeah baby.


Then Beth and I hung out at the library there while we waited for my mom to pick us up. I'd never been to that library before, and it smells a lot different than the WPL and I was just astonished because you step inside the main book part there and you can see all four walls. At the WPL you not only can't see all four walls so easily like that, but there are three floors like that. But in spite of all this, it was strangely satisfying. I think I just adore libraries, no matter their scent, shape, or size.

Then we went to Beth's house and finished watching Kenneth Branaugh's amazing version of Hamlet that we started last Friday (we had been going for a "bad movie party" but after watching Alien vs. Predator (very bad haha), we didn't feel like watching The Core and started Hamlet instead, which is indeed not a bad movie at all but it's just very hard to find and when I found it I flipped out and we got it.
Then we returned the movies and then went and hung out at the Wheaton Public Library for half an hour or so. Which rocked. <3 the WPL. Oh my gosh my mom's taking me there today! YAY! TODAY WILL BE SUCH A GREAT DAY TOO! But I'll get to that tomorrow or something. :)


Then Amy joined us and we went to Chili's for dinner... Amy's mom's treat. Rock. Which is even better because I'm not sure I actually had any money with me haha. But even when I do bring money I never bring enough... :-/

Then we made a Chapstick Emergency run to Wal-Mart. Amy needed the chapstick. I personally had three tubes of it with me, and I know Beth had one too. But Wal-Mart is fun when you're with your friends, chillin'.

Then we went to my youth group and there was this bloke who talked about this program he's doing, bringing over Israeli and Palistinean kids and doing a reconciliation program. Having them make friends with each other and stop hating each other so much. And then each of them will have a group of 10 kids over there that they lead, and will bring them back here hopefully for a couple weeks next summer. The daughter of Jerusalem's mayor is coming. And the daughter of some other famous fellow in Jerusalem. It's pretty cool.


Then we went to Lowell and played on the swings. It was funny because at one point Amy and Beth were having some philosophical discussion about what about human intelligence separates us from other animals, and they had just come to some brainy-sounding conclusion when I, having wandered off to play on the slide, reached the bottom of the slide, which was very wet and grimy, and shouted, "AHH IT'S WET! MY BUTT IS SO WET!" And they laughed so much because they had that in context of their discussion. And at the end of all the laughing and re-counting of the event Beth is like, "And remember that Kate is smarter than either of us." And I'm all like woot yeah I am haha Kate the Great! Hee, naw. Well maybe hahaha. Actually... well.... anyway nevermind that. I don't reckon I'm that much smarter than Beth, really, she's just rather lazy and I'm a budding workaholic.

Then we went to Elm Street park and played there. There were some other kids there this time but they weren't cool like the ones last week who were all like, "Heyy ladies..." These ones just sort of swore at us a little bit heh. And made fun of us a bit. And talked among themselves about drugs and played with their lighters like they thought they were impressive or something. Such losers. They didn't laugh at all. We laughed hardcore. They're angry subdued druggies. We're cheerful "No, we're not on anything! Really! *rofl*" straight-edge-for-the-most-part people. Ah well.

Aw man but Beth came up with the coolest pun! "High on swings." Hahaha get it? Aw man.
And on the way home we passed a chiropractor's sign which said, "We've got your back." HAHAHA. I love puns.