What a weekend.
It started on Friday night - Wesley has this thing called Friday Fellowship where people get together on Friday evenings for various activities. Last Friday was game night at Aldersgate. A group of people wanted to play this game called Bang - it's like a roleplaying card game. It was a lot of fun :D The group of us played 3 games before it got too late.
Saturday morning was the bike ride with Pastor Glen and Dale. That was a good ride. And it was a lot cooler than it would have been if we had gone out on Thursday, so that was nice :]
Then it was Football Time! I was standing with Andrew and Ben from the house and some of Andrew's friends, and we saw some other people across the aisle as well as Jake joining us after halftime. It was a fun game :D We were playing Middle Tennessee State University, and it was a pretty close game throughout the entire time. The fourth quarter was when most of the action happened. Our last touchdown was one of the best things I've ever seen - TerBush (our 5th different starting quarterback this calendar year, by the way) handed it off and Shavers just ran right through the mass o' people at the line of scrimmage and scores a touchdown. And then, when Middle Tennessee was going for the field goal to tie, we blocked it! It was so much fun. And it's nice to know that we can stick in there and come out on top of these close games - last year that didn't work out so well for us.
And it was so bloody hot! The high yesterday was supposed to be 95, but I think it was warmer than that. In the second half, there were some times when the students were cheering because a cloud had given us some shade. Just before halftime, I went to get a water bottle and I think I bought the last one in the stadium, for the time being. They got some more later, but they were going through them like mad. I really wonder how many ambulances and stretchers they went through - they had them all ready at the doors.
The band wasn't wearing their normal uniforms, which I thought an excellent decision on the part of the director - they would have been dropping like flies before they even go to do the halftime show.
The stadium wasn't very full, which was probably a combination of the heat and the fact that it's Labor Day Weekend. That meant that the student section wasn't very full either so all the sunlight was bouncing around the empty seats and I got fried. I also lost my sunglasses somewhere, but that's ok, the game was definitely worth it :]
After the game, Andrew invited us to join his parents tailgating. That was nice too, just relaxing after the game. His parents are really nice, they apologised for not having very much vegetarian things and promised to bring something if I joined them again.
It was around 7 once we got back to the house. Boise State and Georgia were playing at 8, as well as LSU and Oregon. Andrew, Ben and I were thinking about going over to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch them but Andrew went to see a friend and disappeared so Ben and I watched the games here with Kyle and ordered a pizza. That was entertaining, watching with them. The LSU/Oregon game started out pretty sloppy (and by 'pretty', I mean 'extremely') on both sides, so Kyle was saying that all the players should get penalties for being idiots and I was just laughing at what was going on in the game. There was one play where Oregon threw an interception, and then the next play was almost an interception in the other direction - I was cracking up. The Oregon almost interception was a play where the LSU QB threw it behind the receiver and the Oregon player caught it, rolled on the ground and got back up to run it into the endzone. They reviewed it and saw that the ball hit the ground before the guy caught it, but Kyle was saying that he should get pentalized because he would've been down anyway and yet he still got up and ran up the field.
So, yes, Saturday was a good day :D
Now, as a comparison, the high for Sunday was 75. Amazing what a difference 24 hours can make.
It was really nice on Sunday, and I got to play bass with the praise band for service. I haven't played bass since Grease, so it was nice to play again.
After service, Spike was showing the original Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. Kyle, Ben and I were watching and Catherine joined us for a bit. That was really fun - it's been a while since I watched them. We were talking about the changes that were made for the BluRay versions coming out. The only reason I have a Twitter is to follow Lord Voldemort and the Death Star PR department - and the DSPR team is bloody hilarious. See this link for more info on the changes (and some entertainment :D ). If you watch the video in that post, watch some of the others it links to - Ewoks blink now and Obi-Won makes a sound like Walrus Man barfing to scare off tuscan raiders.
Side note - the best insult ever: 'You stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking, nerf herder!' :D
Then it was 55 degrees outside when I woke up today for the canoe trip. I wore sweatpants, intending to take them off to canoe, but I wound up wishing I'd worn a long sleeve shirt as well. Once we got out in the canoes it wasn't too bad, but it was still kinda cool. By the last stop we made on our 3 mile canoe trip, it was actually pretty nice so people were swimming and playing frisbee in the water (there were people from UofI and EIU Wesley foundations, so we had like 50 canoes). After canoeing (and changing out of various wet clothes), we ate a snack and went for a hike. That was really cool - a group of 8 Purdue people (myself included) decided that we didn't want to wait in line to walk down the steps to the trail that everyone else was walking, so we went our own way. And that was cool - we were climbing on rocks and straying off the more beaten path. Eventually, four of them were walking faster so the other four of us made our own group so we could walk more slowly and enjoy looking around. And when we were walking back, we were walking with Pastor Glen and his son Isaiah retracing the path most of the group had taken out. And I liked our way out better - the way back was less rugged.
After hiking, we split up from the IL schools and we went to Crawfordsville (south of Lafayette) for dinner - to the home church of one of the Purdue group. It was nice to relax a bit, though I discovered that I somehow managed to cut my middle finger about a quarter of an inch above the bottom knuckle - like right next to where my finger meets my palm. I'm really curious how I managed to pull that off - whenever I needed to hold onto something, I used my palm or fingertips. It was stinging, and I think it's going to bruise, so I washed it out and put a bandaid on (by the way - definitely one of the more awkward places to put a bandaid, I had some trouble at first).
On the way back, we stopped for ice cream and there was a playground. That was exciting :D There was also a watertower that we wanted to climb, but it didn't look like the ladder would support us very well and someone thought it was against the law so we decided against that.
Such a fun day. What isn't fun is all the homework I'm going to have to do since I've been putting it off all weekend...
May the Force be with you.
-Carly
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