Fine Arts Trip Recap Day 2

Friday : College Visit

wake up super early
shower
get dressed
do hair and makeup
hopefully try not to forget anything
kind of sort of make some food before hitting the road
leaving
driving
traffic
make mom a bagel for breakfast (yes...while in the car...it was interesting...)
traffic
driving
traffic
sitting in traffic for way too long
realize I forgot to put the camera in my purse
driving
traffic
driving
take wrong turn
I once again point out my lack of navigation skills
driving
make it to college just in time

chapel - the college gets some EPIC point for definitely comfortable chairs in the chapel, no pews here people, oh yah

campus tour - it was all around small, green and had THE most lovely trees EVER (I adore trees ^_^) loved it! and the student store? ah I just love books and pajamas! lol

dorm tour - only part of the college I didn't like...it was like a MAZE...and I don't think I could survive communal bathrooms for two years *shudder* (freshmen and sophomore's have to live in-dorm...juniors and seniors can live off campus)

lunch break!
get lost looking for caf
realize that its the building labeled DINING HALL on the map
feel rather incompetent

eat lunch - great food! we're talkin' they had a salad bar, a sandwich bar, a taco bar, a pizza bar, a juice tea and soda bar, a dessert bar, a fruit bar, they even had a place where you could wait in line and have a guy make some asian stir fry right there!

visited a ministry internship class was really interesting, enjoyed it...MORE comfy chairs

decide to go to the pentecostal spirituality class while mom goes to the parent Q & A

really interesting class...good thing it was otherwise I would have fallen asleep (remember the lack of sleep the night before?) MORE comfy chairs

stay in the same room waiting to meet mom for financial aid meeting

turns out mum actually fell (snoring) asleep in parent Q & A...and isn't feeling well

too tired to stay for rest of visit
leave college
drive
realize that I didn't print directions FROM the college BACK to the place we were staying
once again point out my lack of navigation skills
drive
decide to go to the mall
drive
take wrong turns looking for the mall
finally find the mall...it got easier once we realized it had its own road and highway off ramp...seriously...
end up deciding to go to the movies
see Soul Surfer (BTW IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!)
movie ends
its getting dark
try to find our way back to where we were staying
drive
get lost
drive
wrong turn
drive
drive
traffic
drive
wrong turn
drive
I once again point out my lack of navigation skills
get back tot the house we're staying at
ssslllleeeepppppp

Fine Arts Trip Recap Day 1

So, I'm sure at least some of you are wondering what all went down during the epic district Fine Arts Journey (for more about FA click here!) a few weeks ago (wow...has it really only been a few weeks??) and I realized I needed to post...so here we are!

Basically the trip was lots of driving...and traffic...and tiredness.
So during the whole thing I was really tired, but pretty stoked at the same time (quite the combination, eh?) and in all truthfulness, didn't really have enough rest to process everything as it happened.
So if you asked me what I thought of things and if I was excited during the trip my answer would have been along the lines of "shhhh. I'm sleeping..." whereas after I had some good sleep and time to process everything that happened (twas a seriously fast paced trip) my answer its "IT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME!".

When I say the trip was fast paced, I mean there wasn't much time when we weren't doing something!

Here's how everything went down trip, day 1...

Thursday:

get up
get dressed
eat
load car
leave
lunch
spend 2 - 3 hours looking for things I need (art board for my t-shirt design, prints of my photography etc. etc.)
back on the road
drive
see this oddity driving on the highway...

drive
drive
stop for gas
drive
drive
drive through a snow storm?!





drive
drive through a rain storm...





still driving, sun comes out...beautiful despite the highway!






and it gets even prettier as we go!!!








drive
get lost looking for the house we're staying at
I again point out my lack of navigation skills
drive
find the house we're staying at
meet the lovely people we were staying with for the weekend
share a meal
unpack
get ready for bed
try to sleep
try to sleep
try to sleep
roughly 2am realize haven't slept and sometime thereafter finally, actually fall asleep