DITCH THE WORKOUT, JOIN THE PARTY!Rachel and I are members of the Lifestyle gym in Apex. We usually just go a few times a week, on the treadmills, zoning off with our iPods blasting. There's a big studio room in the gym with half the wall covered in windows, so you can easily see inside at all the sweaty old ladies taking a class. Not the best sight, but they do always seem to be having fun. So Rachel and I decided one day that we would take a class. Not just any class....but ZUMBA! We read this little pamphlet thingy about it at the gym and it looked pretty fun, yet extremely hard. It's basically Latin dance incorporated with hip-hop music, and super energetic and fast. Hah yeah...imagine US doing that. :P
So we showed up to the class one night at exactly 5:30, not sure what to expect. We inched into the studio, full of mirrors and older women, and took a spot near the back where we were hoping not to draw attention to ourselves. We were the youngest ones in there, too. The instructor stood on this little stage in the front and started blasting Shakira and shaking her hips. Rachel and I looked at each other, shrugged, and started copying what everyone else was doing. We were pretty lost, but eventually got the hang of it - or at least pretended to. It was kind of strange being the youngest in the class; there were old women there really getting into it, which Rachel and I were laughing about later. Zumba was so much fun, though! So much better than just walking on a treadmill. It was full of fast cardio, hip shaking, foot work, twirls, and chest popping. We even lasted a full 45 minutes! (Believe me, that may not sound like much, but I was sweating like a mad person afterwards). We plan to go to the Zumba class on Tuesday nights throughout the summer.
Yep, the picture to the left that your eyes are currently resting on is indeed a satellite image of Apex High. And it's where Rachel and I were standing at midnight - well, on the roof that is. X marks the spot!
Rachel had been to 
I really wish I had brought a ton of money with me; I would have spent it all on the awesome records that were on display. I actually have a record player sitting beside my computer right now, but the only time we use it is during Christmas time - playing all those old classic Christmas songs like the Little Drummer Boy. But oh man, how amazing it would be to have Modest Mouse or MGMT playing from the speakers! I really want to go back to SchoolKids Records another time. 
There's this little stage set up against the wall where I guess local bands play? It would be really neat to go back there once someone is playing. :) So if you're bored and in Raleigh, my advice is to check the place out. There's a little something in there for everyone. Oh geeze...I sound like a commercial now.
I'm a sucker for photography...especially ones taken in a field. There's something about the endless grassy, peaceful, enclosed area that I love. Every time I drive past the field across from the grocery store, Food Lion, it seems to call my name. Rachel and I had been wanting to go there to take pictures for a pretty long time. So yesterday evening, we finally made our wish come true. 
It was pretty spontaneous. Rachel called me asking if we wanted to have a photography session in the field where some construction was taking place and I said sure! An hour later, around sunset, we were parking my car in a tiny, empty parking lot behind some building. And from there we produced tons of awesome pictures. I chose a couple to put up here for proof. :) We came home with many cuts all over our legs from the stupid sharp grass and weeds, but it was definitely worth it. We had a lot of fun and found some great spots to take pictures.
We got there an hour early haha, and waited outside the doors where a line was forming. After finally getting in, Rachel and I picked a spot in the very front of the lawn, right behind the pit in front of the stage, to put down our blanket. We saw a couple of other people we knew there, too.
Around 8:30 is when the hilarious stuff began to happen. First, a shirtless drunk guy started dancing in our section, and was all up dancing on one of the security guards. Then, we got some random guy to take a picture of us. But then he said, "Now let's take one of all three of us so you can remember me." He wrapped his arm around Rachel, took a picture, and then ran off with his girlfriend. There was a waist-high fence that separated the lawn section from the pit in front of the stage. Well, apparently someone wasn't happy just chillin in the lawn, because he climbed under the little fence and joined the mob in the pit. Soon after that, like every five minutes someone else would climb under the fence. Eventually, huge groups of people were just taking turns climbing under/jumping over the fence right behind the security guards' backs! Haha it was a pretty funny sight.
So today at approximately 10:28, the bell rang releasing us from prison! Err I mean school! Rachel and I walked to my house, grabbed a few dollar bills, and drove to Burger King. We each bought some fries and a BK Icee; which by the way, for $1 it's definitely worth it minus the bright red tongue afterwards.
We went to Rachel's house for a few hours and proceeded to start on our to-do list. Today we scratched off #19 - Have a brownie batter fight! I was just innocently minding my own business, stirring the brownie batter when Rachel comes out of nowhere with a huge spoon full of it! She threw it on my leg (I was sitting on the counter), and the battle began. Soon we were covered with brownie batter and dying of laughter. We still had some leftover to actually make some brownies, too. A pretty good day? YES; summer watch out, here we come!