Update & I'm COMING HOME!!!!!

WOW, it has been an interesting week to say the least!!!!

I'm going to start wayyyy back to last Thursday! So being silly me, I woke up late and rushed off to class, leaving my nice warm n toasty winter coat behind figuring I would come and get it later. I get to class and halfway through, my classmates and I discover that school has been cancelled starting after that class due to an impending snow storm! I went and grabbed some lunch and was thinking, I just can't wait for this so called snow storm!!! Since I'm from Idaho, we always think we are going to have a great, big snow storm that never comes! I go to lunch with Dan and Corey and we come out and the world is winter wonderland and its snowing quickly without ceasing! So, an hour rolls by and I realize, maybe I should head home before it gets any worse! I go to wait for the bus and the bus takes an hour to come!! I was freezing and illy prepared for my first big RI snow storm! The bus finally comes and it takes us 1 hour to go 3 or so miles!!! After that, I hibernated like a bear in my room! Just to give you some examples, an average 20 minute commute for some took 9 hours! School buses that left elementary schools at 1pm still were not home by 11pm and had to have law enforcement come and remove the children off the bus! Come to find out, Providence got TEN INCHES of snow!!

Friday, nothing too terribly exciting happened, however a group of friends from my dorm, West Hall, went out around 2am in the morning (so this would make it Saturday) to go play in the snow. I should have known what I was getting myself into! Simple play in the snow?! Heck no! We were tackling each other and white washing each other like crazy!! White washing, for those that do not know, is the act of rubbing someone's face into the snow or bringing snow to someone's face and rubbing it into their face. It was so much fun though!

Saturday, I had huge plans of being like a bear hibernating in its cave all day since the snow still had not really melted and the weather was definitely frightful! My good friend Melissa invited me to our Church Ladies' Cookie Exchange. I did not have any cookies to share and was hesistant about going but things turned out fine and I had a great time hanging with all the awesome ladies from church! Melissa and I always manage to find adventure whenever we are together whether that means getting lost or just encountering funny things thus we make quite the pair!

Sunday, I awoke to a few disappointing text messages stating that church and our church Christmas party was cancelled. I was really disappointed especially since the weather outside did not look all that intimadating, however, none of us knew if we were supposed to get any more snow later in the day or not. I decided to take some chances and go do some much needed Christmas shopping. I convinced Melissa to come and join me (we originally were being bears in a cave for the day). We met up and felt like ducks playing in the snow and rain. Providence was being a little slow with clearing things up. After a couple of hours of shopping, we met up with 2 other friends (my roommate, Allison and a great girl, Kim) and went out to dinner. Melissa had to do a paper dealing with casual themed restaurants so we killed two birds with one stone. Overall, Sunday was great!

Monday was the typical, dull and boring kind of day. Tuesday was fun because I got to have lunch with a group of friends from church and then I had dinner with 2 of my good friends. I bet it gets all really confusing keeping track of all my friends that I have, one of these days, I'll post a blog telling all about them!

I can't wait to come home on Thursday!!!! I hope to get to see a lot of my fellow Boise people over my break!