Friend's House 9-23-07

*Names of friends have been changed for their safety and protection.

After church (1 PM), we went to Becky and Dean's house. Al had to install their monitor, and we were going to stay for the afternoon and eat dinner. For few hours, we were trying to cook chicken and pork. So, we decided to order pizza to hold us until the meat was done. At some point, Dean decided to dump kerosene all over the road because he was certain that it would evaporate. Becky, was boiling some water to wash dishes, and instead of waiting for it to cool, she (without thinking) put her right hand in it. Her skin melted a little bit, but she immediately put it under cold water. Then we kept ice on it. We finally ate dinner around 5:30. We took the table outside and ate under a tree. Becky had a box next to the table with her bowl of ice on it for her hand. She had to eat left handedly.

After dinner, I shot with bows and arrows for first time in my life. Then I rode bike with James up and down the hills. It was really fun till I fell down on the grass. Dean was afraid that I hurt my head. I scraped myself pretty badly.

Later we made homemade ice cream. We had to hand crank the chocolate. At some point, a friend of Becky and Dean's came by and told us that kerosene will not evaporate and that in the morning when there was dew on it, someone would hydroplane. So, we get in the truck and drive to the creek that runs through the road and dug up some sand. It was dark, and we were scared because we saw a stranger in a field with his truck lights on. He wasn't moving. We got alot of sand. Becky had her hand in a bucket of ice and water. We went back to the house, and dumped sand all over the road. Then we scraped it so it covered the kerosene. We wanted to wash the truck to remove all evidence. Cate said that we were stupid now because the water will wash all the sand away from the road. But we didn't stop for some reason. That was when we saw a car coming toward us around the hill. We started screaming and running and looking for Becky! She wasn't in the truck! So we couldn't move it out of the road. Dean got in and was trying to move the truck when Becky came running out of the house and started yelling at us about the sand washing away! The car drove by us and we don't think they recognized us. So, we covered the road one more time, ate some ice cream and went to their lake to hopefully see a bear that lives around them. That day finished in the wood silence near the lake.