HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Another year has passed. On New Years Eve, Erik and I went with some friends out to the west desert. Normally, we don't do anything exciting because we always have to work at the laundromats being that it is the last day of the month (every month we work on the last day so we can get end of month "figures"). Andrew and Jessica invited us to hangout with them, Preston, Ledah, Annie, Johnny and all of his friends. We pulled up to our meeting spot and after a few minutes, four or five trucks had appeared; all filled will palats. One truck even had a trailer full of wood.

When we got out there, Johnny built an enormous bonfire and we sure did need it. It must have been close to 0 degrees that night. As it approached midnight, the guys would throw small propane tanks into the fire and shoot them to create huge explosions. We also lit fireworks and shot guns. I had never shot a gun before and I was pretty bad. I could barely hear anything afterwards.

Everytime we tell people about our exciting night, they talk about how scary it must have been and how there could have been a lot of injuries. For some reason, it never even crossed my mind while we were out there. Johnny and his friends had done this many times growing up and I felt pretty safe.

I had never been to a huge bonfire, shot a gun, or had a personal firework show before so it was a really exciting way to start the new year.