the frozen north

So I had an excellent weekend. Two of my old roomies live in the twin cities, so a bunch of people with 709/champaign connections road tripped up to visit them. There were 17 of us plus a fly-in... it was a great group. I kind of miss people already. I'm pretty pathetic, I know.

We went snow tubing, and played games, and saw Amanda's apartment, and visited a conservatory and zoo, and went ice skating, and had a wonderfully random supper, and pretty much had a blast. I like Minnesota. I like how they don't hide in their houses when it's cold.

Some of my highlights:

• driving and discussing "A grief observed"
  
• Gab's iPod
• the flowers at the conservatory
• ice skating and playing tag under the stars even though it was 20 below zero.
• piling 14 people into a 7 passenger van on the way to church
• playing who, what, WHEN, where, why
• Seeing Bovee
  
• supper- I shared a picnic basket with Marcos... others weren't so lucky and ate from baby plates, flowerpots, camping cook kits, sand pails, and with marshmallow toasters... funny stuff.
  
• Boo-boo Blakey's car... which I may or may not have had anything to do with.
• Chilling with some super cool girls
• talking WOT with Sprout
• Listening to some random music lecture d.j. nicalicious found in the van
• having Natalie ride shotgun and Sarah explaining things
• the "Send Help" sign
  

Lowlights (few and far between):

• almost hitting Steffen's van
  
• my van not starting before church
  
• my van still not starting after church
• a completely frozen van
  

Although, even though thawing out the van was a hassle and annoying I think some of the guys were enjoying being mechanics for an hour. :) Props to boo-boo for taking one for the team and losing some hearing finally getting it started with ether.

My alarm went off way too early this morning. And it was a very busy day.
Blessings.