This weekend, Pat S. and Laura H. were getting married in Pensacola, FL. A large Christendom contingent was going there to celebrate with them. At the same time, Christendom College was having Homecoming weekend.
To be perfectly honest, I really wanted to go to both. I hadn't missed a Homecoming weekend yet, and I had wanted to keep that repetition. Now I had to choose: my options were either the wedding of two good friends at which I would sing and then play music at the reception when the live band wasn't playing, or a celebration involving a number of drunk alumni, a dance which, in previous years, was too packed to actually do much dancing, and a high-spirited football game, involving the original 13 states and every state touching the Atlantic (East) vs. everyone else (West).
I had hoped to leave work on Thursday by 3 PM to be beat traffic. I was so busy with reports that I couldn't leave until almost 7 PM. I had to make a stop at the apartment before we could go, because I had forgotten some stuff that was rather important for this trip. When I finally called it a day, I still had so much work to do it wasn't even funny, but if I didn't stop then, I would not have stopped until the wee hours of the morning.
Lizzie borrowed my car over the weekend, so on the way to Sarah's house where Ken, Alaina and Sarah were all waiting for me, I swung by Christendom for two reasons: #1 to give her the key to my apartment; John E. was coming down, and he wanted to stay there, and #2 to drive her to Sarah's house and then she would take the car from there.
I got to Sarah's about 9:30 PM, and we left shortly after that. I slept in the car until about 2 AM. Sometime in the middle of the night, when I couldn't sleep anymore (I think around 4 AM), Ken and Alaina got in the back seat, Sarah and I got in the front, and she drove while Ken and Alaina slept. After getting lost coming out of Atlanta, GA, we stopped for directions, and I took over after that.
We made it to Pensacola by about 11 AM, Central Time (yes, we switched from Eastern to Central)...
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Wow! That sounds like a really boring drive. I can't believe you were in a car with Ken, Alaina, and Sarah and nothing fun or noteworthy happened. They must be very boring people.
I can't believe that you didn't mention anything about the new heresy you discovered which is now known as "shibaelianism"!
You also left out the bit about new chapter in the Book of Revelation...you know, chapter 26? "And the Lord will smite the Smitha when he agrees with the Furlong"...I know, I know, that's a misquote, although I'd put money on the fact that you said it...
And what about the rude awakening that Ken had...twice!!!! "What the {hmmmm, must edit....) HECK is that!" in reaction to the highway barrier that I came across after the U-turn you told me to make in Atlanta...and yes YOU told me to make it where I did...and then there was the "Good Lord Woman! What did you do to the seat" when you tried to get into the drivers seat after I had been driving...poor Ken, he couldn't have slept very well...
And then there was the singing and dancing (also known as bouncing, head bobbing, or jamming) that took place over the last hour or so to songs that shall remain nameless...
And BTW, it was Ken's idea, not mine, for me to post all of these comments...you made the ride sound so boring!!!!!
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