Big Weekend

Mike and I went to the St. Louis area for a nice, unexpectedly long weekend. It was so much fun! We stayed with my bestest bestie Jennie, her husband Ben, and their psychotic cat.

Friday
Mike picked me up from school after I got out early due to weather. We packed like maniacs and hit the road at 12:40. We then made a trip from our house to Jenjamin's. Normally this takes 4 hours door to door, planning in two stops. Friday night, the trip took over 7 hours. We had to stop several times just to relax for a few minutes. The weather was horrible. I know that I am prone to exaggeration, BUT without any exaggeration, I would bet we passed between 100 and 150 cars that had slid off the road or otherwise wrecked on the ice.

After we arrived, Jennie made us a lovely dinner. Then we played Wii, told stories, and watched Firefly. Then we went to bed.

Saturday
Mike and Ben went to the Blues game with some of the Truman crew. Jennie and I went shopping. Then the Truman gang came over for a good ole spaghetti night. We got to see Anne and Jeremy and Nick and Lisa. We played Apples to Apples and Nick finally won, so he can't ever complain again that nobody picks his cards. After everybody left, Mike and Ben killed zombies, and Jennie and I sang Karaoke Revolution. We kick ass.

Sunday
Sunday we met up with everyone from the night before, plus Erik, and played Demolition Ball. I suck at it, but that has never kept me from having a good time. Erik drove around making tank noises the whole time. He also spent most of the playing time driving his bumper car in reverse. When we finished, we all went to Nick and Lisa's house for some kick-ass beef stew that Lisa cooked. We watched movies, and I played with Deuce. He's a good dog.

After we left, Jennie and Ben and Mike and I went to dinner at the Chinese food place with the bullshit fortune cookie. SUCK IT CHINA! Then we watched Nacho Libre. Nipple twist!

Monday
I got up on Monday to see what road conditions were and get ready to leave. Turns out roads were shitty all over the state. The highway patrol, Goldie, and my principal all told me not to try to drive back on Monday. So my principal called in a sub for my class on Tuesday (which I turned out not to need due to snow days) and Mike and I stayed another day. There was much rejoicing. Jennie and I got haircuts together and went shopping again. Mike and Ben did boy stuff, probably killing more zombies or something.

Later, we had dinner. Then Jennie and I made cookies. Turns out they were poison. Only Jennie and I could eat them. They would have been toxic for Ben ;)

That was the weekend. Tuesday, we packed up, met Ben for lunch, and made the drive back in just under 4 hours. It was such a good weekend. It's always so much fun to hang out with Jennie and Ben. We really need to move next door to each other. Jennie just needs to convince her dad that the practice needs a young lawyer who happens to be an expert in Missouri law.

Oh, and it never did anything but rain on us all weekend. Until Tuesday morning when I looked out the window to check the weather. It was sunny. And snowing.