The Great Beach Trip

Sometime early in the week during the great rainstorm of March, my twin (who had been studying with Audrey) randomly calls me and says “We’re gonna spend the night on the beach this weekend”! Of course I tell her that is a terrible idea because I am not the kind of person who enjoys sleeping outside in 50 degree weather and I had already spent three recent and cold days in the great outdoors. They convince me with their brilliant plan: we will go to Jr/Soph and dance the night away until 10 o’clock, then Audrey, Joey, Han, Autumn and me will drive Audrey’s mom’s car down to Gulf Shores, we will stay up all night and watch the sunrise, eat at waffle house and return to Judson to finish homework. What an awesome plan! We will drive 5 hours to and from the beach and stay there maybe 3 or 4 hours. We leave and our first bright idea is to take the long, scenic route to the beach because “we’ve never gone that way before” and a 3 hour trip became a five hour trip.
Audrey—gets about an hour of sleep because she was keeping Joey awake, and then drove the rest of the way while the rest of us sleep
Autumn—vehemently insists that she is NOT sleeping just because she lying on her pillow with her eyes closed. And then she sleeps for 4 and ½ hours, and giggles uncontrollably at the most un-funny and random things during the ½ hour she was awake
Joey—drives for about an hour and 1/2 , and makes us laugh [a lot] when he isn’t sleeping
Hannah—also sleeps for about four and ½ hours, and doesn’t understand any of the jokes the rest of us think are hilarious. Quote: “I didn’t know blind people could drive” (ask her about it)
I—sleep for about two hours and didn’t do anything very exciting
On the way back: we get a flat tire only a few minutes after leaving, discover the spare tire is actually a donut, and the tire that blew was completely worn on the inside and all the other tires might be just as worn out. Did you know that wal-mart does not carry 18 inch tires and no tire store in the world is open on Sunday mornings?? We didn’t but were quickly educated. Thanks to Audrey’s prayers the donut miraculously lasted all the way to Judson, but the 3 hr. trip once again turned into five hrs. because we didn’t go above 50 MPH the whole way back. We also saw an entire herd of cows (that had gotten loose from the fence) cross the road, Hannah was terrorized by a perverted demon-possessed bug, we drove (on a donut) through the most isolated parts of Alabama and Audrey’s parents do not know when or where her car got a flat. All in all it is one of the best weekends I’ve ever had.

No more floods in Kirtley!

So how does a whole town run out of water?

As sent in a group email from Mrs. Fowler:

Jodi and Sarah called to tell me that the water is out in Kirtley. It is out at our house, too, so I called around to find out why. I just spoke with someone from the Water Plant. They were already aware of the problem and said that the water should be back on in about 30 minutes. They believe, however, that the water pressure will be low for the rest of the night.

The reason for this is that they have someone coming to do maintenance first thing in the morning. The pipes have to be empty, so they decreased the amount running through the system. They didn't think the water would run out until late into the night.

I'm so sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience!

*sigh* Takeshi didn't believe me when I told her, but if the pressure backs up in the toilet and bursts the pipes she'll believe me.....

NOLA TRIP and I just wanted to blog :D

So this weekend was pretty much amazing!!!!! and for all those people that did not attend I will catch you up quickly....


Friday
- we did not leave till late bc of the Whisenhunts
- Travis's family killed a cow so we could eat (kind of weird but they were delicious) (and like I mean they really did kill a cow..they had them in their backyard)
-we met some Marion townies on the way..they wanted us to flash them but we didnt and then they got pulled over haha karma what can you say
-when a house has not been used in a while brown water comes out...for future reference...DO NOT WASH YOUR FACE IN THIS!!!

Saturday
-aquarium=cool
-cafe du monde (or however you spell it) is really good but messy and crowded but you have cool ppl entertaining you so all is well
-I saw the best balloon animal maker I have ever seen...he was amazing
-in New Orleans when you get married you get to be led down the street by a band and wave hankies and drink champagne...Im thinking this is where I'm getting married at :d
-BOURBON STREET....we were almost pushed into a bar...it was rather funny and drunk people are very entertaining..but this was my highlight of that. On a sign was

1000 beautiful women and ugly ones too!!!

Yes I did giggle at this..o sex houses or w/e they are now called crack me up!

-you have to pay to use nasty bathrooms...I do not quite understand this but w/e

Sunday

-we went to church and it was fun :D

-we went to travis's house where we ate more of the cow slaughtered for us hehe!!!!

- we drove back to wonderful Marion

So these were the highlights and the next time we go everyone should join...gah!

Well I always say better late than never...

I am utterly and despicably disturbed by the fact that my latent blogging is not for a lack of time and effort but an inability to find the frigging NEW POST button! Ashamed, yes I am but it can't be much worse than being at school every weekend (with the exception of the one just passed) and being cancelled on on several occasions :) Any way my biggest spat is with the BIG MAN up stairs. I think HE is punishing me for going out my freshman year (as much as I did)... OK this is what happened, I asked God at the end the semester to help me make better grades and in exchange I would ease up on some of the habits I'd been keeping throughout my declining GPA. OK, so how about I didn't know HE was gonna make it possible that I stay in ALL of the time. Well all I can say is be careful what you ask for because you just might get it to the 25th power! I was getting majorly depressed at one time until I had the most random posting of a TD Jakes sermon outside my door...it was creepy at first, now I don't know what I would do without it...Smiles and giggles to whoever put it up! Love, peace, and Harmony my fellow bloggers!

Re: Movies, tornadoes....

IT SNOWED!

Don't worry, Laura is our 'special friend.'

And since we're not seniors yet, thanks to Susie for picking our foliage for his gimp arms ;)