Halloween

Happy Halloween sisters!

As you know, last weekend I went to visit Lindsey! It was so refreshing to see her/you and miss a day of school. I was so excited to meet her roommates and friends, and I loved them all. Friday I went with her to her Psychology class, but unfortunately, Lindsey got me a paper with a crossword puzzle and sudoku right before class, so I ended up not paying attention. This bodes well for my coming college experience. That night, we went out to eat at the Melting Pot with Taylor and his parents. Yum. Saturday we got up early and went with Lindsey to her crew practice. Cold. Tired. Wet. Lindsey's crazy. =]. That afternoon, we went to the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Incredible. We couldn't have gone on a prettier day, the autumn colors were at their peak. I went into it thinking, "This is really pretty, I bet I could take lots of pretty pictures," but by the time I left, I wanted to chuck my camera into a pond because I knew it could never truly capture the beauty of what I was seeing. It gave me a new appreciation of the subtle parts of nature, from every blade of grass to the last leaves on an autumn tree. That night, we went to this restaurant called Oishi, which was one of those Japanese restaurants where you watch them make the food, with Lindseys roommates/friends. It was very entertaining. And her friends were very fun. Sunday morning, we got up and watched Lindsey's regatta. It was really exciting, I'm glad I got to watch. After we had to say goodbye =[. I hope I can go back at some point.

Monday afternoon, I left for Knoxville. The bus drive took way longer than it should have, but what can you do? I roomed with Nikhita, Whitney, and my friend Melissa. A lot of us were still a little restless when we got there, so we decided to explore. We weren't technically supposed to, but our hotel was literally right next to the World's Fair Park so some of us walked around there. The next morning we had to have all our stuff ready to check out by 6:30, which was 5:30 for us. That sucked, our room ended up oversleeping and woke up at 6:26, so I looked awful for the rest of the day. We took the test around 8 which was relatively difficult. I only answered 13 of 25. We got the results later, and one girl from our school made it to the next test (they only took the top 50 out of the 600 or so people that took the first test), so we were happy for her. Our quiz bowl team did decently well (I got out of doing that, phew), but eventually got out. There were just so many genius kids there that it made me feel really inferior, but that always happens at math tournaments for me. Around lunch, I got see McCall! I called her and she stopped by for a few minutes on the way to her class. It made me really happy. Overall, it was pretty fun, lots of games of presidents, ers, and mafia.

I fail at Spanish.

Last night, some friends and I went to a haunted house. It really wasn't bad at all. Compared to the one we went to last year (and that one wasn't even too bad either), this one was pretty tame. But it was still really fun, I love my friends. The number of cheezy movie references we made were rather entertaining. Such as when these creepy black cloaked figures came up to us and I shouted "Expecto Patronum" at them.

Tonight is Halloween! We're being very low key this year. My friends and I are probably just going to stay home and watch Halloween movies. Most likely lots of Tim Burton stuff. I don't think most of us are dressing up, but I still want to. I don't know what to dress up as though. I was looking some ideas up online, and I found one that I might try if I don't get to lazy. It said to just wear all black, and then get glow sticks and make yourself a stick figure! So I'd just make a circle around my head, and straight down by legs/arms. That way in the dark I just look like a stick figure. I thought that was rather clever, but I don't know where to find glow sticks, so I'll see if I actually make the effort to do it. Are any of you dressing up?