Freshman Retreat

So, once upon a time, I went to SOAR and therein received a scholarship to Brigham Young University (Provo edition). However, the scholarship was kind of like a pact with the mafia: they give you the money and lie in wait to see what you do with it and how effectively "it" is done. Luckily, they're all brown and KNOW how to party.

We went up to the lodge at Spring Haven in Springville Canyon. There's an incredibly interesting story about the "Mansion of Spring Haven," and said story goes as follows:

The Mansion of Spring Haven
Once upon a time, in a far away mansion, located in the foothills of the mountainous range of Rocky, and in the Canyon what lay just east of the Ville of Spring, there lived a man and a woman. Said man and woman had passed their years of youth, and "racked up the dough" in their elderly state. Needing a change in life's humdrums, the once-young couple migrated to the location what I said at the beginning...which means they weren't there before, but you get the point. Anythou, they decided to build a large and spacious mansion of a pleasing quality, not to be connotated with any such building in any scriptural reference at all. The couple moved in, but left shortly after to serve a wonderful, whole-hearted mission to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in a third-world country. Upon returning, they realized that they could not stand to live within such a marvelous home, not after the tragedies they had beheld whilst on their mission. So they donated said mansion to the Church, who in turn gave it to Brigham Young and the University thereof, to use as it pleased.
Das Ende

Regardless of whether the story is true or not, BYU owns the mansion, and I slept there. So.

It was so much fun to see all of my SOAR buddies and to meet new people from other sessions. That night, we ate Panda Express (ya, for free. Jealous?) and had a dance-off. There was a clever little name they gave it, making a reference to some popular MTV show where groups of dancers get up and strut their stuff and get voted off the island or something like that. Anywho, our group chose "I Got a Feelin'" by the Black Eyed Peas, whose name makes absolutely no sense to me, and we got second place for the equal use of our group members. But that was a given.