I'm a Pokemon trainer.

At the beginning of June I flew back to San Ramon so I could visit my family a little and work at Camp Summit (the camp I work at for a week every summer). I had a few days to get my things in order, relax, and pack for camp before I went off to the Marin Headlands for a week. 

Right when I got to camp, we had to get our CPR certifications renewed, which is always a fun time. This year we went through a different company and they had some super fancy dummies. And we all got our own, instead of having to share two of them like we used to. 

Here's mine. I named him Roger. I also kept breathing so hard that his chest (the blue part) kept flying off and hitting other people. I'm totally qualified to save people, I promise. 

Camp was super fun and exhausting as per usual. One of my jobs at camp is to run the camp blog throughout the week to update parents so I'm pretty blogged out regarding camp. And I don't think I'm supposed to share photos of campers, which really limits my options on pictures for my personal blog. 

One of the sessions that we had was stamp carving, which was really cool. We had this special pink rubber that it meant for stamps (it's not an eraser guys) and these tools that helped you carve out the space around your shape so that there was a stamp remaining. I decided to make a pizza stamp and I put pepperoni on it even though I hate pepperoni because otherwise I thought it would just look like a weird triangle. 

We also made some pretty sick tie-dye shirts this year. Ellie (one of the other counselors) ordered a new kind of tie-dye which took roughly two hours to mix, since we had to make it in small batches. But it was worth it since the shirts came out so vibrantly! Unfortunately my shirt got other colors bled onto it when it was hanging on the clothesline to dry, since it was super windy and shirts were flying everywhere. 

On Thursday night we always have a "theme night". We can't call it a dance because that puts too much pressure on the evening haha. This year's theme was superheroes. Naturally I wore my superman underwear over my pants. It's kind of hard to see in the picture though and this was the only real picture of me haha. I'm also the camp photographer, so I'm not usually in many photos. 

After camp I went back home and rested for a few days. We decided to take Charlotte to the vet since she had been losing a lot of weight and drinking a lot of water. My mom thought she either had diabetes or kidney failure, and we were hoping for diabetes. So she went in to get her blood drawn and all that good stuff. When we got home from the vet, Dewey was freaking out that she had been in his carrier so he jumped in it and ended up taking a nap in it forever. We thought since he liked it so much, we would take his old crate out of the garage and leave it in the kitchen with the door off. So far he has been in it basically every day. 

One of the things I was most excited about doing in San Ramon was trying a new restaurant right next to my house called Poke Don. It was SO GOOD. It was a make your own poke bowl and I can't wait to go back fifty more times. Tucson, step up your poke game please. 

Here's a great picture I took of Dewey. 

I was only in town for a little while, and the Slavens family was in and out of town as well. Luckily, I managed to go out with Kristi and some children for Kristi's birthday lunch. We all went to Benihana, which never disappoints. I found out recently that some people have never been to Benihana. I'm sorry. Apparently other people just go to other teppanyaki restaurants, but Benihana is like THE teppanyaki place to go. We used to go to the Benihana right next to Disney World when I was little and it was the best thing of life. 

My parents and I drove up to Napa for the day one weekend to go to one of their new favorite restaurants, Mustard's Grill. It was so good! First we walked around Oxbow Market, as per usual, then we went to the winery my dad is a member at to pick up his monthly wine subscription, then we went to dinner. Everything was delicious! 

Ahi tartare crackers. 

Mushroom tamales 

Steak and mac&cheese 

After Mustard's, we made our way over to Bouchon bakery to stand in line forever. It was worth it though! I got an eclair and a brownie bite, and we got some doggie treats too. 

On the fourth of July it was Charlotte's 14th birthday! Earlier in the week we had gotten her bloodwork back, which showed that she did indeed have kidney disease. So we had to bring her back into the vet so they could take a urine sample to make sure she didn't also have a UTI. Of course when we took her in, she didn't have enough pee in her bladder, so we went back the next day. She still didn't have enough pee, so we left her at the vet for a few hours and came back right before closing. They tried to collect the pee one more time and finally succeeded! It was so frustrating - we wished we could just tell her to pee and get it over with. She's got some new medicine and supplements to add to her food so hopefully she'll put some of her weight back on! Right now she only weighs 7 pounds and she looks like a kitten. She better hang in there for a while because I don't know what I'd do without her. 

Also on the fourth, my mom was cleaning out her dresser and found some great things. She found an American flag do-rag and this cute dog shirt which I naturally put on Wilbur. He didn't really appreciate it. 

This past Wednesday I flew back to Tucson. Since then I have been bumming around town running errands, relaxing, and hanging out with my roommates. On Thursday night I discovered Pokemon Go and downloaded it out of curiosity. I was never into Pokemon as a child, but I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. It's like geocaching but better. I made my roommates go on a quick walk with me around the neighborhood so we could figure the app out. Then on Friday, Sydney and I went on campus to check out the Pokemon there. Seriously everyone we saw was playing this game. It was hilarious! We hung out catching Pokemon at the Old Main fountain for a bit, then went home. 

On Saturday we went back to campus and even though it was approximately 130 degrees out, we caught Pokemon with Jenny for almost two hours. We were so hot afterwards and were desperate to go swimming. We weren't too keen on the rec center pool, since there are always a lot of people and we would have had to walk to it. So instead we went to Mountain Plaza and swam in their pool. Hey if they didn't want non-residents to use their pool they should lock the fences. No one tell our secret. It was sooooooo nice and I bet we'll be back later in the summer. 

Fun times - there were many Pokemon Go players at church today and people kept making the church building into a lure (where Pokemon gather at that spot for 30 minutes and everyone in the vicinity can catch them). We made some friends and figured out who was setting the lures. This app is so crazy how it has caught on so quickly. People are getting outside so much more and socializing a lot more too. We talked to a lot of people on campus when I normally just would have walked past them. I also would not have chosen to walk around in this heat without another motive. 

I'm flying to Houston tomorrow morning to stay with my grandparents for the week so hopefully I catch some cool Texan Pokemon while I'm there.