It was a cold and stormy night. Actually that's false, in reality it was really hot and humid but it was actually stormy--there was some wickedly cool and beautiful lightning in the sky. Anyway, that doesn't have much to do with this, except for the very end. So I'll get to the actual part that is like important you know?

Childhood memories fill our minds whether we want them to or not. We have some good, some bad, and a lot of just random junk that seems useless to us most of the time. For me, my memory is very sparse and sporadic throughout my life. I can remember my sixth birthday party, and one random day that I hung out with my neighbor but ask me what I ate for dinner last night--I'll have no clue. As I've grown, I've realized that the "random" things I remember are really just the moments that impacted my life so greatly that it made an impression on me forever.

One childhood memory I have that I will hold onto forever, is my abundance of family trips to a local water park called Splish Splash. This water park and I kinda grew up together. I never remembered the rides being as extravagant as they are today. Just like I'm sure I was not as extravagant as I am now back then.

As a last hoorah of the summer, my friends and I decided to go there so that we could relive these childhood memories (and create them for one because it turned out that she had never gone before). Now I have to say, this was easily one of the best decisions of my summer because I had never felt like such a kid again. Granted I was pretending to be the 'mom' because I had a waterproof camera and kept taking pictures of us and the park but at heart, it was like I was still 11 years old running around the park with my cousins.

This experience had made me realized that its important to hold onto your childhood memories and try to relive them or revisit them to keep the kid inside of you alive. The world is such a crazy messed up place now that it's important to go back to the times where life wasn't all about student loans or bills but just about enjoying the moment and doing whatever made you happy.

Now for the connection to the stormy night. After we went to Splish Splash, we all went back to my friends house to eat dinner and hang out since it was the last time we would all see each other until Thanksgiving most likely. We had gotten pizza from PizzaRev (which I highly recommend 10/10 super delicious) and I had some left over. When I was leaving my friends house we were walking down the stairs and it was really dark. I had thought to myself, "Wow, it's really dark I hope I don't trip and fall," which then led me to tripping and falling. But, the important part of that story was even though I twisted my ankle and cut my arm a little bit (no worries I'm all good just a little sore) I saved the pizza that I was holding.

I may have grown older but my heart, coordination and love for pizza haven't changed a bit.