Senior Prom

1. Yeah, so prom was May 3, it was super amazing!
   I took Rachel (my fall roommate)! Nicole took Taylor, who fit into our group like beef on a cattle farm! The four of us went to the Barn restaurant to eat before hand and had plenty of people staring and complimenting. One lady actually came up to our table and asked Taylor how he managed to get 3 ladies to dress up for him....I'm not gonna lie, we all thought it was a bit awkward, especially since none of us actually understood what she said for about 30 seconds. Rachel hid my purse while I was in the restroom..darn woman, what kind of date is she ;-) just kidding, I am SO GLAD SHE came with me! haha, her off the wall stuff really cracked us all up. For example, While we were eating Rachel stops and stairs at the wall, which is covered with antique tools, and after a bit declares "I have a random question.." Taylor and I looked at the wall, then at each other wondering what kind of question she had. Then she stated "Why did we choose to eat at the Barn instead of some place closer?" Haha, well, maybe you had to be there Taylor and I were quite confused for a second. Then I realized what was going on and pointed out that if we wanted to eat at a place between our house and prom we'd have to eat at the Country Dip, which is a small ice cream shop with picnic tables.
   Prom was at the Valleywood Country Club in Swanton. A very nice place, except someone felt compelled to make sure that there were enough chairs around tables so that everybody could sit down at the same time. Which was silly because, well, we did not eat at prom therefore the table and chairs were basically irrelevant. Wait, they did hold our party favor gift bags (which could have just as easily been put somwhere else). This year one person at every table received a garder in their gift bag, if you look at the picture with Josh you can see he was the lucky winner at his table. I really thought it was a weird thing to give out a prom....but whatever. : ) Our DJ was great! While he did play a lot of rap songs; however, he was the most diverse DJ I have heard at an Evergreen dance. He played some rock, country, and of corse Techno! Nicole, Taylor, Rachel, and I squeezed onto the super small dance floor (which was made bigger after the first song because several people decided to push some of the tables away from the floor) and partied all night! The small dance floor filled with thousands of crazy dance moves that made the place crazy hot! Every 4-5 songs we would squeeze our way off the floor and head for the porch to get some cool and refreshing air. Man, I do not think I have ever danced that much, or that crazy, before! None of us are fans of the grose "all over eachother" dancing, so we started our own crew, and dropped our own moves with the rythm! Haha, we all busted some great moves!
   Rachel had to get to work at Subway by 11 the next day, so she and I got up for 1st service which starts at 9:00am. That was brutal! After prom we all headed to the high school for after prom (imagine that). After doing their inflatable obstacle course, money machine, and a few other games we headed to the media center and played Would You Rather for.....a long time. By 2:30am none of us had enough energy (all that dancing) to remember our first option so each card had to be read 3-4 times before we all could make a choice. I became slap happy and was unable to stop laughing for more that 45seconds. We tried to play Battle of the Sexes, but none of us wanted to read the directions. Whatever we did kinda worked because we had a grand time. A few other people dropped in to find out what the excitement was (there was a hypnotist in the gym and 2 other people were not interested, so they joined us and had WAY MORE FUN), still the boys were unable to tell the girls what a colander was...According to the guys a colander is some article of clothing/accessory that girls wear. After after prom was over (at 3:30am), we went got into Taylor's spiffy BMW (okay, so he borrowed the car) only to discover that the battery was dead! We did not leave the lights on, or do anything that would cause the battery to die, Taylor was later informed that the car just didn't have a good battery (Hey, thanks for the heads up)! I got out of the car and headed back into the school to find someone with jumper cables who could jump us (it may have had cables in it, but none of us knew where). Bethal jumped us and we got back home sometime after 4...morning came too soon! But it was an awesome sermon by Ron about the simplicity of being saved, seriously it was good. Sunday I got home picked up a blanket and went for a walk., my destination was my favorite place and a good nap! Haha, what I wanted--and needed--was sleep, but I could NOT waste the beautiful day God made, so I enjoyed them both! I only slept an hour though, I was awakened by a cold that my date gave me (thanks Rachel)! Haha, I should have known better than to take a sip of her mountain Dew when she said that it tasted a little weird....oh well, I am pretty much over the cold now. Basically, prom was great, and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT!