{"id":9412,"date":"2018-06-25T19:58:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T01:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=9412"},"modified":"2018-06-25T20:09:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T02:09:53","slug":"my-first-fortnite-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/my-first-fortnite-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Fortnite Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite. I had heard there was a lot of hype about the video game, but I had never actually seen or played this game\u2026until this weekend\u2026<\/p>\n<p>My family traveled down in our RV to Bryce Canyon Utah (where our daughter-in-law is from) to support her family as they welcomed back her brother who was returning home after serving a two year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Massachusetts.\u00a0 We had a great weekend with her family, taking out our ATVs and going for a hike (&#8230;okay the hike was a little on the \u2018super difficult\u2019, \u2018way longer than I thought\u2019, and \u2018I seriously could have had a heart attack\u2019, side for me\u2026but I\u2019m dang proud that I not only survived it, but that I carried my grandbaby on my hip for at least \u00bc of the hike as well!).\u00a0 We also went to the hot air balloon festival in the nearby town and enjoyed all the food trucks with their corn dogs, freshly squeezed Texas twister lemonade, and their funnel cakes covered in strawberries and chocolate sauce\u2026.mmmmm\u2026..so so good\u2026. But my favorite part of the trip was hearing her brother give his homecoming talk in church about the incredible experiences he had on his mission. It was a great weekend and Bryce Canyon is a truly gorgeous place to visit.<\/p>\n<p>On the five hour drive back we were trying to entertain ourselves when my son-in-law said, \u201cthat\u2019s it\u2026we are teaching you to play Fortnite!\u201d\u00a0 What the heck\u2026may as well\u2026there wasn\u2019t much else I could do on the long drive back.\u00a0 And so he setup the game on his Nintendo Switch and handed it to me to start playing.\u00a0 You cannot imagine my excitement when on my very first try I came in 20<sup>th<\/sup> place out of 96 people playing the game! \u00a0I mean that had to mean I was pretty good, right??!!\u00a0 I immediately wanted to play another round (&#8230;I had to get more loot and build more walls!&#8230;). Sure enough this time I was able to come in 19<sup>th<\/sup> place out of 96 playing! I was on my way to the top!!!\u00a0\u00a0 I was feeling incredibly good about my obviously inherent Fortnite skillz\u2026right up to the point my daughter said, \u201cYa, so you know you are playing against a bunch of little middle school age kids, right?\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2026No\u2026no I did not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9418\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9418\" class=\"wp-image-9418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2677-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2677-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2677-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2677-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rollin and Amy Rees Anderson<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9417\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9417\" class=\"wp-image-9417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2688-e1529978627102-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2688-e1529978627102-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2688-e1529978627102-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMG_2688-e1529978627102-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Rees Anderson and family at top of Powell Point<\/p><\/div>\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite. I had heard there was a lot of hype about the video game, but I had never actually seen or played this game\u2026until this weekend\u2026 My family traveled down in our RV to Bryce Canyon Utah (where our daughter-in-law is from) to support her family as they welcomed back her brother who was returning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17743,6867,395,501,500,101,18093,179,7059,18108,18101,7156,18092,13952,18099,18091,18102,18100,18105,14707,55,180,5118,1566,357,18094,629,18103,18096,18098,18106,18104,7155,264,18095,27,112,149,18097,915,18107,17926],"class_list":["post-9412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alex","tag-alexis","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-ashley","tag-bryce-canyon-utah","tag-dalton","tag-daughter-in-law","tag-drake","tag-drive-home","tag-family-vacation","tag-first-time-playing-fortnite","tag-flynn","tag-food-trucks","tag-fortnite","tag-fortnite-video-game","tag-funnel-cakes","tag-funny-story","tag-grandson","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-heart-attack","tag-hiking","tag-hilarious","tag-hot-air-balloon-festival","tag-inspiration","tag-middle-school-kids","tag-mormon-missionary","tag-panguitch","tag-powell-point","tag-pretty-good","tag-road-trip","tag-rollin","tag-rv-trip","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-improvement","tag-success","tag-texas-twister-lemonade","tag-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints","tag-tyler-ninja-blevins","tag-video-game-addiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9420,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions\/9420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}