Lauren’s Fall Blog

Ahoy Mateys!! It’s Captain Lauren here and this week’s blog is a sample for the Beacon Fall Contest that the social media team created to get everyone in the fall spirit. A fall moment I can never forget took place on October 16th 2012 (I’m great with dates especially if there is picture proof) it was also a day that was the start of a tradition and a new experience. It was a Friday afternoon that I spent on my front lawn using my phone to stare at my face but we’ll get to why I was doing that as it wasn’t a normal hobby of mine. My dad walked outside and asked if I was ready to head over. I made plans with my best friend, Michelle to visit the local pumpkin patch. I took one last photo of me smiling before it was transformed. We drove over to the orthodontist’s office and it was time. You see before I could go to the pumpkin patch I had an appointment to get my braces put on. I walked in ready as I could have been since I was a little afraid from the advice and warnings some of my friends with braces gave me for the occasion. For this occasion I went back to some old photos of that time and yikes. Back to the story they put my braces on and I felt very weird having tracks of wire connecting to wire brackets on both rows of my teeth. My favorite local pizza spot was next door at the time so my dad and I went and I could take little nibbles while spreading the news that the deed had been done to my friends. After pizza it was time to head out to the pumpkin patch. My dad dropped me off and very conveniently the pain began in my mouth as I found Michelle by the food vendors. The coolest part of being there besides the corn maze was that Michelle invited me to come because the group was her older brother who was a senior at the time when we were freshmen so we were hanging out with his friends of mostly theatre based seniors. I felt so cool and grown up. I smelled the delicious smell of funnel cake so i bought one and fell in love with the smell and the whipped cream and chocolate drizzle on top. My mouth vetoed the idea of eating it by sending sharp pains every time I attempted a bite. I ended up throwing it away with the sadness of when the necklace fell into the bottom of the ocean in Titanic. The rest of the night was very fun getting lost in the dark corn maze and seeing all the various pumpkins in the patch. At the end of the night Michelle’s brother and his friends climbed on top of the tire of tires and had a moment that my dramatic self still to this day believes was about how this was the beginning to the chapter of high school ending for them and to make these last months count. Michelle and I took that sentiment even if we misread the moment and from below we decided we would go to the pumpkin patch every year and try for that day if we could. We did just that and included our old friends Carlos and Patrick and the next year we went on the same date and I still was a braceface. 

I really look forward to reading your blog posts and if you have any inspiration to write any other blogs that you would like to be posted on the Beacon website I would love to read and have them posted for your peers to read. 

Thank yer for reading Beacon Crew and I will see you soon.