Weekend Fun

Hello!
Well, this weekend has been a blast. It started off really slowly, because both Krista and Julie went home to Idaho... :(

Krista's sister got married yesterday, which is pretty exciting! So she went home for the wedding, and Julie hitched a ride with Jackson back home to see her family, since she's seen them literally twice in the last five months (because she was working in New Mexico all summer). Julie invited me to come up with her and stay at her house for the weekend, which would have been a lot of fun, but I felt bad leaving Somers and Mallory by themselves. Somers couldn't go because she had to take an exam yesterday, and Mallory had a lot of work she needed to get done, so they both opted to stay home.

And so Somers and I took Krista to the shuttle that would take her to Idaho on Thursday and said goodbye, and then saw Julie and Jackson off on Friday. It was really quiet in the apartment once they were both gone, and we thought the weekend was never going to end.

Somers, Mallory, and I went out to dinner to Bombay House on Friday night, because I'd been whining so much about how much I missed Indian food :] They were daring enough to come with me and try it, and surprisingly enough, they liked it. They've even said they would like to go back again soon (but with a bigger group this time, since it can get a little pricey). I ordered one of my favorites--Saag Paneer, which is basically homemade cheese in a curry-like sauce. And both Somers and Mallory ordered Coconut Lamb Kurma, which is basically lamb in a coconut milk curry. The waiters there were all very funny and amiable, and liked to talk to us. All in all, it was a lot of fun.

Scott asked us earlier if we would like to go play broom hockey with him and his roommates, because they needed more team members. Unfortunately, they were leaving for the ice rink just as we got our check, and we were too late to go. :(

Saturday morning I woke up to the sound of my phone at 11:20 :) Since Julie was in Idaho, that left Scott with no one to go with to the football game. So we hurried to get ready in ten minutes and Scott came over and then we headed to Legends Grille, where they have the BEST chocolate mousse pie ever, and they have a million different tv screens to watch the game on. The game was definitely frustrating, so there was a lot of yelling coming from Scott, Mallory, and I. :) Somers showed up for the last five minutes of the game becasue she'd gone to the library for four hours (blech!) and then taken her exam.

Later, McKenzie came and picked us up to take us to play sock hockey with some of her friends and siblings in Payton. We stopped at Dustin's house first, and it was so weird being back in an actual HOME. Somers, Mallory, and I were having a bit of a culture shock from being inside a house and being surrounded by little kids. McKenzie's and Dustin's little siblings are so cute! Dustin made some homemade rootbeer for us, and McKenzie made peanut butter popcorn (which was surprisingly addicting), and then Dustin made this candy called Divinity that was REALLY good. We decided to have a pumpkin carving contest, because one of McKenzie's friends had given her 14 pumpkins, and so we picked names out of a hat for our partners, and I got paired up with Riley, Dustin's 10 year old brother.

Afterwards we all drove over to their church building and played sock hockey in the gym (basically just hockey, but you wear socks so that you slip all over the place).

It was a lot of fun playing, and we had several wipeouts. I collided with Dustin and his twin brother, Dallen, many times and we'd all go flying. McKenzie's little brother (who is absolutely adorable!) was always slipping and getting knocked over, so he was almost always on the ground, and usually right where the puck was too, so there'd be hockey sticks trying to get the ball away from him while he practically sat on it. :]

We went back to Dustin's afterwards and he showed us the preschool he, his brother, and his dad built above their house for their mom to teach in. It was so amazing! They'd built a little wooden fort in there, and it was one of the most awesome preschools I have ever seen! I'm amazed that just the three of them built the entire thing.

We then went to McKenzie's house to drop off her siblings, since it was WAY past their bedtime (1:20). We met her mom, who is really nice, and we got a little tour of the area where McKenzie and Dustin grew up. It's such a cute little town. It's not very big, and there's not too many roads, but there's hills that go on forever and the stars were really bright since there weren't too many lights around. McKenzie drove us along the road where they filmed the scene in Footloose where they play chicken, and she showed us their high school, where they also filmed Footloose.

All in all, it was a lot of fun. McKenzie told us that she did this kind of stuff practically every weekend and then this weekend she was thinking and was like, I should invite my roommates to come with me! They never get to be in a normal house and they can come hang out with us. We've already made plans to go camping in Payton not this weekend, but the next.

We took a lot of pictures, but alas, I did not take any on my camera since there were already so many being used. :] So once I get the pictures from Somers and McKenzie, I'll put them up.

-Cate