So if you happen to be walking around campus and see this poster or driving down the street and see this on the side of the bus,YES the left foot is mine. Obviously you guys could tell its my foot because you're my best friends. Provo? um its pretty cool. I mine I'd rather be here then in waltzing in Lexington Garden or jumping out of an airplane. But I guess thats just my personality.To be honest I miss you terrible. I feel kinda lost without our late night Phatom performances and 7/11 fat girl runs. But I guess we will meet up soon enough. I don't even think I'm suppose to write on these things like this but who cares! It the 5 we do what we want!!! Love ya and miss you. call me or text me thank you very much. I have a phone just like Jacks. :)

Another Week (or so) in the Life... of a rockstar... what?

So the past two weeks have been busy to say the least. I'll give you a quick list of the high lights and a few pictures (of this week only) so maybe you can appreciate England as much as I do:)
We: visited Windsor Castle (where the Queen and Princes live sometimes), Stoke Poges (where Thomas Gray wrote an Elegy in a Country Churchyard), Runnymede (where the Magna Carta was signed), Oxford (the town, and the University), Blenheim Palace, and Middle Temple.


Windsor Castle!

Stoke Poges


Kira was a little excited

So this is Blenheim Palace... just one of the Dukes lives here. It's really not very popular or anything... but really... how beautiful? And the grounds in the next two pictures. Just lovely. So Jane Austen-esque.

We spent a few hours in Oxford and at the university. This is the door which inspired Lewis Carrol's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass". So presh.

Um, yes this is real, WE HAD TEA AND CRUMPETS IN THE GREAT HALL OF HARRY POTTER!!! It was SO much fun.

*note: our tea and crumpets were Hot Chocolate and sandwiches, and delicious cakes:)

This is Christ's Church College at Oxford.

Belle's Library? Yes.

Kira with Honest Abe in London, he loves to visit it's one of his favorite towns. We're having tea next week:)

The second great hall we ate in this week... Middle Temple, a posh place for posh people, with quite a history as well.

The Templar Church, I LOVE the lighting.

Kensington Gardens, just up the street from us:)

The Peter Pan statue!!! We finally found it. I can now cross that off my list of things I want to do with my life I made when I was ten.
(Live in London, and see Peter Pan were both on there:)

Picture Perfect...not!

Alright so I finally have a lot of pictures thatI want to post, but that is prrbably all you're going to get, pictures. peace.

NZ Necessaries

Alright. I have done some pretty sweet things the past few days. No joke. Me and Rachel (my roomate and saving grace) have created our "NZ Necessaries" list of all the things we have to do while we are out here. Some of the things I have checked off are as follows
1) Bungee jump
2) Flip off a cliff
3) find transportation
4) SURF
5) Hitch Hike
6) kiss a Kiwi

HA! Best week ever. I will now elaborate on each of these items crossed off.

1) BUNGEE
Sheesh I was soooo nervous! I had to dive, head first, off of a platform 440 feet in the air! Who would know I would actually do it...... and I did it right away on the count of three! Rachel and Holly said that as I was walking up to the platform I was like an innocent little girl and kept saying"I have to jump?". I dont remember any of this, as I was trying not to freak out, but dont even worry, the song that was playing when I jumped was "shake your tail feathers" ;) hahahaha. Here is the wonderful proof of my jump. HILARIOUS. After I jump you see my face, I look terrified out of my mind. Just go ahead and have a good laugh with it.

2) Unfortunetaly for the moment I do not have any picture proof of this. I have friends who took a picture for me and I have yet to get it from them. But yes, while on my kayaking trip we went cliff diving and I, Tressa Lynn Tenney, front flipped off of a 20 foot cliff! AND I didn't even face plant or anything, justgracefull (ha yea right) flipped into the water. I've been wanting to be brave enough to do this for so long!

3) Find Transportation. As I have told you, and as you can see from the picture, I am on that freaking bike all day everyday trying to get around town! So gay! And, while I have hitch hiked, word traveled pretty fast about it and we found out we can get into HUGE trouble if we ever do it again (lame I know), so we decided we needed to find a way to travel outside of town, without having to put a whole in our pockets taking the bus or renting a car. Solution= free car competition. Listen to this,. Last night I was in a competition to win a car. HOW? We had to keep an elbow, the same elbow, on the car, and whoever kept it on the longest won it! So, 5 of us BYU students got together and decided we were going to win it. At first it was easy peasy just sitting on the ground with our elbows against the car, but then they started making it a little harder for us. RULES= Every 3 hours we got a 5 minute break (easy I know). Must keep elbow on at all times. At 8 am those who are left will be put in a drawing and then whoever is drawn gets the car. For some reason there were only 8! People competing for the car, 5 of us being a team. And we CRUSHED them. By midnight we had a game plan, and guess what, it worked! We bribed them all off of the car and WON A CAR! I HAVE A CAR! Now I can do whatever I want……its fun to do bad things ;) so yea, now I will have oh so many adventures to add to this list of mine J I can’t wait!

4) SURF. So not even an hour ago I finished class. Class for the day was simply going to the beach and SURFING for three hours. This is the life. I love it! Surfing is amazing I don’t know why I never do it at home. I will for sure be at the beach surfing everyday all day when I get back. Can’t wait!

5)Unfortunately, I do not have photographic proof of this YET either. However, it was still awesome! Dont worry I was with a boy.It was Rachel, Rusty and I. We decidedthat on our day off we wanted to get the heck out of Invercargill and explore.We had a total of 4 people pick us up. Allsuper chillpeople who offered us a ride anytime we need! The people out here are justso nice its crazy. We ended up making it to the most southern point of the island, a beautiful Curio BAy (where there is often dolphins people swim with), we got chased my an insane sealion (no joke I was scared haha), and made it home in time for dinner time (anyone know what movie thatis from??? haha ;). Apparently, we are not allowed to hitch hike and the next timewe do it we cxan get in major trouble, good thing I now have a car :)

6)Kiss a kiwi. HmmmmI'mnervous to add this one because I know my family looks atthis blog but I decided it not a big deal. The term KIWI refers to a "New Zealander" orsomeone fromNew Zealand. Theyare called that because it is their national bird. Yea kinda weird I know. Anyways, there was this free Reggae concert the other night. Itwas awesome. Of course all the Maouri or Islander people have amazing voices and a great feel for music so there was some first class performances. It was super chill and often people random people would end up going on stage and dancing with the people singing up there. I wantwed to dance,but not go on stage so I went over and started dancing with the guy who played forston stage (amazing voice, great guitarist and pretty cute). All of a sudden he took my hand and lead my onto the stage. Dont worry I unleashed allmy sweetmoves and looked likeI belonged up there :) And they evern handed me a tamborine while I was dancing.I think that was the most legit moment of my life haha. Well anyways after the song me and the guy (his name is Peti) danced and talked for a while and then he kissed me! Ah! YES. Checked thatone right off my list.Not only did I kiss a kiwi, but a Reggae genious who was super nice. Best night ever :) Here are the picturesof the 3 "stages" with Peti.And yes, I had some friends watching the WHOLE time ,pretty embarrassing, but everyone was jealous after :) I kissed a Kiwi and I liked it! hahahaha

stage 1

Stage 2Stage 3

I love all of you! I hope your life is whatyou want it to be, if it isn't,change it! Peace.

Love turns to Hate

Yes, my title means that everything I love in this world I now hate. London, meat, tulips, mushrooms, tomatoes, gelato, chocolate. Hate it all.

You didn't give me a chance to say psyche!!

Just my love for airports and the magicality (new word) of flying, has turned to hate. My past three flying experiences have been pure torture... when I have never had any problems before.

First, the whole standby-getting-to-London episode. Need I say more.

Second, flying to Edinburgh (this past Wednesday)... when we were running totally late, were forced to check bags that we should have needed to... had to deal with an idiot who couldn't scan a boarding pass and tried to make me go get back in another line (I was assertive and took it out of his hand and scanned it for him... ha I have never seen someone so angry...), and then were delayed a couple of hours.

Last but not least... this experience I am experiencing this moment. We wanted to be prompt and not rushed again at the airport so we got here two hours early (learned everything I know from my daddy). Checked in, ate dinner, were all set. Delayed two hours. Not so bad. Then another hour. Then another. Our leaving of Edinburgh is still unclear. AND at this point we'll be getting there after 1, meaning all free public transportation will be closed and we have to get a cab. Thanks a lot Bin Laden.

Losing Myself and Finding More

I can’t even begin to describe the purity and beauty of New Zealand. Just driving across the island and living in its wilderness has opened up my eyes. I love it here and I can’t even bring myself to think about returning home. I am about to attempt several blog entries that will describe all the different places I’ve visited and attached my heart to. I will warn you, I doubt these next couple entries will have any structure or rhythm for the main reason that I have no idea where to begin as I attempt to share my last month. I love all of you and hope you are safe! Enjoy J

Whatever

Ok so I am much too impatient to type up about every place I went to at this point in time. MAYBE over the weekend I will finish, but for now I just want to put up pictures. So here it goes. And like I promised, there will be no rhyme or reason to which pictures I put up. Pretty much whatever I feel like. Take it or leave it

We found this while hiking Tangariro ( a 6 hour hike!)
We had the LONGEST fireside one night so this girl did like a hundred mini braids in my hair and then fish tailed them together. SWEETAS! Looked like legit dreds.


These flowers are all over NZ/ Beautiful! This is in a park inChristchurch. The most beautiful place ever.

Kira and Britt these are for you. These are the colors I can imagine one of your guys' wedding to be.

On the ferry crossing from the North Island to the South. Probably one of my most favorite things. The winds onnthat boat were OUT OF CONTROL! Sooo fun.

Look like a movie anyone? This is again from our hike? i felt like a hobbit striaght out of Lord of the Rings. On our hike we summited a volcanoe, went through a desert, a rocky valley mountain thing, a grassy area like this, waterfalls, natuarl hot springs, and even a rainforest! All in just one hike! That is how NZ is, one minut your going through grassy feilds and then all of a sudden a lake area, and then a rain forest pops out of nowhere. It just unbelieveable.

Again from our hike. We were dying and had been going for about 4 hours and then we turned a corner and ran into this. These are stacked rocks. When hiking, if you walk past stacked ricks it means you are going the right way! The ultimate symbol of hope. My spirits were def lifted. I will never forget this sight. There were just millions of them! We even made our own :)

Hamilton temple!

Just hanging out at our campsite on the hammock ...

And looking up at this!

Here is the natural hot springs I was talking about!

Here is the top of the volcano. You can't tell, but on the right of me is aGIANT crater. The volcano is still active! As we hiked up it My feet were burning because the mountain was hot!

Me at the temple :)

the view from our tent at our campsite in Rotorua. Lovely place.

Another view from our campsite in Waitomo.

Sorry again I know this was a sucky post. Promise the best is yet to come.............say the word and I will follow you :)..... what movie/play?