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I'm so sorry guys, I don't have time to post Tacit Tuesdays tonight!  I will try my very hardest to get it up by tomorrow!

Thanks, and sorry!

~Jess

Guest Post! {Micaiah}

Hiya! Welcome to (Almost) Perfectly Pink! How are you today? =)

Hi! Thanks you so much for having me! I am doing great, thank you!

How old are you currently?

I just turned fourteen years old in July! So far I’m loving it, and I’m looking forward to starting high school soon.

Do you have any siblings?

I do! I have two sisters (both older than me), and two older brothers and a younger brother. Although, it doesn’t feel like I have this many all the time, because only two of my siblings still live under the same roof as I do – one of my older sisters and my younger brother.

If you could live in the world of any book you've read, which one would it be? (Bible Books included.)

Whoa! This is a really great question! It’s also hard... Well, this may sound cheesy, but I think it’d be really cool to live in Narnia for a while, especially if all the characters from the movies and books were there too. If not in Narnia, I think it would be kind of cool to live in the world of one of Martha Finley’s series – probably the Millie Keith series. Millie lived in a dusty frontier town in America in the 1830s. To be able to live there with her and tag along on all her adventures and be around her family and friends would be really fun to me.

Do you like bananas? Humus?

Who doesn’t like bananas?! Okay, probably a lot of people – but, yes, I do occasionally eat bananas, although, they aren’t exactly my favorite fruit. I love pineapple! And humus? Haha! We actually have a case of humus in the fridge right now... I like eating it with vegetables such as carrots, snap peas, and fresh, uncooked broccoli.

Have you ever had a penpal?

A month and a half ago I would have answered ‘no.’ But, as of late July this year, I got a penpal! We have a bunch of fun emailing each other. It’s great!

Favorite genre of music? (example: country, classical, rock, etc)

Christian pop and worship. I love The City Harmonic and Danny Gokey. If you haven’t heard any songs from either of the bands/musicians I just mentioned, go check them out! They’re fantastic! Oh, I also sometimes enjoy classical music, such as Mozart and Beethoven or Bach. 

Do you live in the city, in the country, or somewhere else?

I live in the middle of the two – if you drive less than five miles one way you’d run into a big city, but if you drive five miles the other way, you’ll be running into rolling hills and farmland!

What do you like best about the place you live? What do you like the least?

Well, I live in a really nice apartment complex, so there is a theater room with a huge screen you can go to basically anytime you want to watch movies and a huge pool that is deserted most of the time, so I love it – especially the TV room! It’s like having your own theater. But living in an apartment also means there are other people around – making noise! Either way, I  totally love it here!

What is one thing that you would like to do someday, and what is something you can do to reach that goal?

I want to be a published author someday – sooner rather than later! So, today, I can continue to write – in my journal, on my blog, or in my Word document to get better at what I love to do. Oh, reading also helps! I’ll never stop reading.  

What is your favorite season?

I love Fall – it’s cool, but it’s not too cold, the leaves are turning different colors, and Starbucks bring back Pumpkin Spice lattes.

Do you share a bedroom with a sibling, or do you have your own room?

I do share a room with my older sister. It’s lots of fun!

How long have you had your blog?

I have only had my blog about three to four months now. I started it in June of this year.

What inspired the name?

Easy question, not so easy question – it was probably multiple things. But most of all it was likely my love of adventure novels and traveling, or just the idea and hope to have adventures of my own, that inspired the name. I was using a temporary name for my blog before I actually started it, but it still had the word ‘adventure’ in it. Either way, I think my blog’s name would’ve ended up having something to do with adventure if it wasn’t what it is now – Adventures Beyond the Horizon.

What do you like writing about the most on your blog?

The books and authors I love for one thing. I can go on and ON about my favorite books and authors. But I also enjoy talking about my own writing and reading experiences.

What do you like best about having a blog?

Hmm...I’m not really sure, actually! I like giving people information about the books I read, and it’s also just fun reading comments from others and replying to them! I also really enjoy putting together the posts. 

New England Trip: Day 4

Day 4:

  On Day 4 I didn't drive at all! ;)  We were able to sleep in a cute little cabin, below:

As a little backstory, my grandparents were working at this summer camp; cutting the grass, painting, repairing minor things, etc.  Well, camp was already over for the year, so we had the camp to ourselves.  Awesome!  We stayed in the Spruce Bunkhouse:

The inside of the cabin walls had been decorated with different writings of girls that had stayed in this cabin during camps, some even dated back to the 1970's!  (Dated back makes it sound so old...lol Sorry. ;)  I didn't take many pictures of them, but some of them were... *ahem* a little to interesting to show.  Let's just say that some girls had major crushes, obviously didn't mind telling everyone.

I did not tilt the camera, this was how it was written...I worried a bit about this person....

  So, we went up there the beginning of August, so summer, right?  I mean, I didn't expect southern weather, of course, but I didn't exactly expect cold enough I guess.  I woke up several times during that first night simply from being to cold!  I mean, we were in a cabin without heat or air, but I still had a sheet and my comforter.  I literally was freezing.  The next morning I got dressed in two pairs of socks, long jeans, and my big sweatshirt.  And that's what I wore for two days.  On  the third day I actually did adjust enough to take my sweatshirt off and just wear a tee-shirt.  I couldn't believe it!  This is summer, people!  I was a cold little southern girl.  I was spoiled by my nice 98 degree weather. ;)

I took some pictures from around the camp:

This was the mother of all zip lines.  It was HUGE!  I love zip lines and I don't think I would have been able to do this one.  I tried to get some angle shots for you to see how tall it was, but it still is taller than it looks.

This is from a 5-foot tall level.  It looks like I was on the ground, but I wasn't!

There was a mini golf course! Julia and I played it twice.  It was so fun. =)

 I actually hit the ball hard enough and got it to go all the way around!  I was so proud of myself. ^-^

I didn't edit this picture at all; I really like it. =)

My grandmother bought both Julia and I necklaces!  They are soo pretty! I love mine. =) <3

Isn't it beautiful?  And it matches my trusty sweatshirt. ;)

After breakfast, and a lot of procrastination, we all piled into my grandpa's truck and went to visit this university.  I don't know the specifics of it, but they made these replicas of each of the planets, and then they placed them correctly spaced apart how they are in real life, if they were really that small.  I don't know if that makes sense, but anyway, the sun is at the university.  So we went to see that.  We didn't go to any of the other planets, but from the sun to pluto, was about 60 miles, I think.

Here are a couple things at the university:

Here is the sun.  They could only do part of it, because otherwise it would have to be, like, 75 feet tall!

Uck, science ;)

Then, they had this cool chart on the wall of that had things from the smallest known thing to the largest known thing.  I got kinda sloppy taking the pictures at the end because I thought they weren't coming out, but they ended up being okay, so, yeah, please excuse my past self. =P  Also, I started at the smallest things, so read left to right:

The radius of a proton is the smallest thing, the atomic nucleus is the next smallest, etc.

Viruses look like little computers.

I'm not going to say what the amoeba looks like =P ;D

UMPI campus was where we were. =)

I kinda chopped it off, but they say North America, and the Diameter of the Earth

Furthest visible object in the universe...Wow. And Yahweh created it all!

Did you know that you could see the Northern Lights in Maine??  That is something that I probably will never see.  "Summer" ;) was cold enough for me! hehe

I wish I could say that I know what the significance of this thing is, but I can't.. Hmm. lol

There was this little garden, I guess you'd call it, filled with flags from all over the world...I made me realize how few flags I know lol

Maine is beautiful, peeps.  Just gorgeous!

 AHHH!!  So beautiful!  Those fields of grain were just...ah, oh....*happy sigh*

After the university we went to a discount store.  There were big signs saying things like, "Beat the heat with these great deals!"  And girls my age were walking around in short shorts and tank tops.  And they all looked at me really weird, all dressed up in my winter garb.  I mean, seriously, it was cold!  Summer is 100 degrees, not 60!  okay, sorry about ranting about that again....It was just so weird!

After lunch, we went to a nature preserve!  We took a nice little hike. =)

It was a running joke all weekend among Julia, my grandpa and I about what to do if you encounter a bear:  Always sneak up on it, pet it and feed it, walk alone through the woods, try to pet it's cubs, etc. ;) Haha

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This reminded me of the sun from Tangled. =)

And then we came across some old railroad tracks! It was so cool!!!

Julia held the flower for me. =)

The camera wouldn't focus, but it turned out to make them, like, glow, so I decided to show you guys anyway lol

 I thought wildlife condo was a cute name lol

This is still the "condo."  See the "rooms?"

And that was the end of the trail!  But don't let the "easy" deceive you.  I was tired by the end.  But maybe that was just me. ;)

Also, as an ending note, look at this amazing license plate.  Moon pie.  Ha ha. ;)

*Added note:  I'm SO sorry that I took forever to post this!  And that I missed Tacit Tuesdays.  And that I haven't posted.  And for anything else that you can think of that I did or caused.  I still love you all.  The end.*