Rainy Weekend

Saturday. Weekend. Time to sleep in and not do much else. Which is what I did. Actually, the team had “team-building” in the afternoon, so I guess that counts for something. I rolled out of bed at about 10:30 and Korey and I grabbed breakfast before the BBQ. I had a huge breakfast, including pancakes, eggs, a biscuit, and copious amounts of fruit. Then we walked over to the pool for the BBQ.

On a quick side note, I realize that my grammar hasn’t been shiny or polished, but I’m just writing how I think and talk. That may also explain why some things you read on my blog make absolutely no sense.

Anyways, after waddling over to the pool all plumped up from breakfast, we had the BBQ, which wasn’t really a BBQ but rather was an enormous order of pizzas. Even though I was entirely bloated, the pizza smelled SO good, so I had a piece. Actually two. And a ton of veggies. Then, Steve made a speech to get us jacked for the season before we did teambuildings.

For teambuilding, we first did a little icebreaker/fun fact type activity, and then we went outside to do a more challenging activity. All of the freshmen and transfers (which, I think the only transfer is Austin but I could be wrong) went to one side of the rope, and everyone else stood on the other. This rope, however, was about six feet off the ground. All of us noobies had to cross to the other side while touching each other. The older kids helped us bodysurf the first few people over, and then we continued doing that until there were three left. Actually, we failed two times by touching the rope, so this whole event took close to 30 minutes. I was one of the last four people, and I got surfed over, and then two people boosted over the third whilst touching feet with freshmen on the other side. The last two people required assistance from people on the crossed side, and then everyone was happy, yay.

That was the official end of team building, but then a bunch of people decided that we should play lap tag. I had never heard of this game, and I wish I had because it is actually really fun. Basically, everyone pairs up and one person sits in front of the other, except for one person who is alone. That person calls the names of two people who are in front of their partner. These people must race to get to the lone person, while their partner has to try to stop them. If these people are having great difficulty, the lone person may call others to try to race over. Then it starts all over again. It’s basically an excuse to wrestle. We played for like two hours! So we finished, grabbed some of the extra pizzas, then headed back.

Korey and I finally got our fridge right after that, and we also had gotten our couch the day before (did I already mention that?). However, we had to wait a day to plud in the fridge for some reason, so we let the pizza sit out for awhile and it got pretty stanky in our room. It’s okay now though, it’s in the fridge and it’s chilled.

To celebrate the previously mentioned event of getting a couch, we had a movie night with some people on Friday.

Saturday night, some of the swimmers though it would be fun to “do downtown”, which initially meant to go get dessert somewhere and check out some shops. What ended up happening was kind of similar.

About twelve of us freshmen piled into two different cars, and used Vegas’ iPhone directions to get us to this place called the Chocolate Apothecary, which was supposed to be the best dessert place in town. Also, nobody in the group was from the area, and Spokane is a big city.

We eventually found this place called the Flour Mill, which was this three story shopping center. From the outside though, it looked like some weird restaurant, because the top floor was at ground level and the other stories went downwards. Inside the Flour Mill was the Chocolate Apothecary, and guess what, it wasn’t open Saturdays and it was only open until like 7 most other nights. Riddle me this, what kind of dessert place is closed at what would be the most popular times?!?!!?!?!

Anywho, we googled the next popular dessert places, and discovered that Baskin Robbins and DQ were the next hottest locations. We decided to go ahead and pass on those options and instead, we attempted to navigate towards the mall area. We found a parking space, and walked down the sidewalk until we discovered this fancy pants restaurant that was actually too expensive for us, so we left. As we kept walking, we discovered this little coffee shop that we decided would be good enough. They had decent desserts I suppose; I got chocolate cake. It was okay.

When we left, we had no idea what we were doing, but we walked into this big six-story shopping mall. Actually, the top three stories were all dedicated to the movie theater. It was still pretty big though, with a lot of escalators. On a whim, we decided to watch a movie called The Town, which I wouldn’t recommend watching. Apparently it has good ratings, but not from this guy. The ending reminded me of the movie “Logan’s War”, if anybody has seen that, which I doubt anybody has except for James or Mitch. Or Teddy maybe?

After that, we ventured back home. However, we split off in a different direction from the lead vehicle because, apparently, we were going on an adventure at 12 o clock. Oh yeah, and I was sitting in the trunk because the car was overloaded. This adventure included flying over this huge construction bump in the road, which gave me like a foot of air and a concussion/spine fracture. After taking a few random turns and going straight on this one road for like fifteen minutes, during which the driver thought she should have turned on a couple of roads but whimsically decided not to, we somehow came to Whitworth. It was seriously the craziest thing ever. It was so surprising. We’re driving, and all of a sudden we were there without even trying to be. It was a miracle.

Yeah, then I went to bed.

The next day, I tried out this other church, and I really liked it. It smelled really good like candles and cinnamon and stuff. The style of it all was pretty comfortable too. I like!

Oh, going back, another thing that happened Saturday was that we had a small group meeting with our small group leader. I should explain. So, a few weeks ago, I filled out a sheet saying I wanted to do be in a bible study, and so did the other guys that I am now in a small group with. So we met up and decided we’re gonna go through Ephesians and maybe a C.S. Lewis book, meeting Sundays at 2. Cool beans.

Yeah but then Sunday, I can’t remember what else happened because nothing else really did. I lifted. My pec feels pretty good right now.

Quick shout out to Quinn Mason. She is going to produce and direct really famous movies one day. George Lucas and James Cameron will be inferior beings compared to the works that she will masterfully piece together. And she has brown hair, and uhhh she goes to USC. Shout out over.

This week might be boring, but some fun stuff might happen too. I’ll keep y’all posted.