I have this friend named Benjamin Laud. He has really dark brown hair but he dyed the front of it cotton-candy colored blue and pink, and in case anyone was wondering, he is not gay. He’s also a little short, he’s only a few inches taller than me.
The best time I had with Ben was when we went to Silverwood, a roller coaster park in Idaho.I remember how when we were first walking to the park, me and Ben decided we were going to try to clothesline this guy we know named Danny, which seemed like a good idea for a minute, only we forgot somehow that Danny is about 2 feet taller than both of us. Me and Ben got ready to clothesline him, so we both stopped and stuck our arms out in front of Danny... we both ended up falling down and Danny walked right through us. We both decided not to do that again, and Danny laughed.
What that says about Ben and I is that, sometimes, we don’t come up with the best plans ever, but it usually ends up funny somehow, like the time we tried to play dodge ball downstairs in the church with basketballs, and we ended up getting kicked out of the basement for a week for almost knocking over a bookshelf and throwing dodge balls (basketballs) at people who weren’t playing (on accident).
We went to Silverwood with a bunch of people from our church and Benji and I were in the same group (we stayed in groups so no one would get lost). Ben and I were the only ones who stayed in the group and we ended up going on almost every roller coaster there together (other than the little kids rides, they wouldn’t let us go on those ones), we ended up going on
about 30 rides.I met Ben at church when we were both 12, he is a few months older than me and we’ve been friends since about the end of 2010. So we obviously haven’t know each other very long, but we are still really good friends. I don't’ get to see him very much anymore, the last time I did was at a thing in Mission (the town I lived in) called Good Old Days which is just where everyone in town hangs out at an amphitheater and listens to country music, dances and eats not-so-healthy food.