The week before Thanksgiving I actually had a social life. On Tuesday and Thursday I had a movie night with Amber, Emily and their friends. We watched The Phantom of the Opera on Tuesday and then watched the sequel that Amber has the was a professionally recorded play in Australia. I was really excited about seeing the sequel, and it was really good.
On Friday Amber, Dianne, and I went over to my friend Anna's apartment and played some group games with her and her roommates. It was super fun and I learned a new group game that I am going to have to play a lot more. It is called Number Ninja. It sounds way complicated when I try to explain it so I am not going to, just know that it is really fun.
On Saturday Dianne invited me to go to a dance performance that her friend was in. It was a bunch of her friends that went with us. The picture below is of me, Dianne, and Sam. It was put on by the dance majors, and there were some amazing dances. There was this one waltz that was practically all lifts and it blew my mind to pieces.
Then came Thanksgiving week. I only had classes on Monday, so I decided to leave on Tuesday. I posted on the ride board that I need four people. Literally three hours before I was going to leave two people dropped out. So I only had two people come with me, Corby and Ashley. Ashley sat in the back and listened to music totally ignoring us. Corby sat in the front and drifted between sleep, awkward silence, and then awkward conversation (I liked it when he was asleep the most). We made great time, I left around 3 and then got to Brian and Krissy's house around 7:30.
I had a lot of fun hanging out with all of the family. On Thanksgiving day I went over to the condo and spent the day with Grandma, Grandpa, Rob, Jodi, and Trey (and ellie... elly... idk how to spell her name). I was expecting to go out to eat, but Jodi and Grandma made a homemade meal. It was really good. Then I just sat around playing games with Grandma, Grandpa, and Trey... and I also got Rob to play pinnacle with us.
On the day after Thanksgiving Grandma made another meal for the Terrys, Thurstons, Jodie, and me. It was really good too. Before and after dinner I entertained the kiddies. I got a little break when Krissy broke out the gingerbread stuff that the Terrys left her... though it wasn't a break for my hand... darn the frosting.
I also got to play some hand and foot with grandma, grandpa, and Krissy. It was a blast.
Clay was excited to show me some of the new games that he got. One of my favorites was the game called escape. It is a team game and super fun. Beckham didn't like that actually game, but he played the game that Kres made up in the house.
We had to crawl through Kres's tape trap... in the dark...
Finally Krissy, Ky, Grandma, Jodie, Trey, and I went to go see..... CATCHING FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!! It was super good and I am in love with the new behind the scenes people (they fired all of the people from the first film because it didn't do as good as they hoped, and it was much better). I cannot wait till I get to see the last two.
And of course one of my favorite parts is just socializing with Ky, Krissy, and Grandma.
On the way home I only had to take Corby back because Ashley had been dropped off by her parents (her famliy went to Island Park or something by Yellowstone.... which is on the other side of BYU-I... so she drove to Boise, and then drove back past BYU-I...) and so I only had to take back some of her stuff. The ride back was basically the same as the ride up, only Corby sat in the back and there was less awkward conversation.
And finally that brings me to tonight. Tonight was the Jane Austen Ball. Me and Amber decided to go way back in November. Krissy was a nice aunt and took me to Good Will and Wal-mart while I was with her. I found a good suit jacket and pants at Good Will and a scarf/necktie at Wal-mart. She then took me to my favorite restaurant, Olive Garden, which was amazing as usual. I then had her set up the sewing machine so that I could shorten the jacket so it looked like it was from the Jane Austen time period.
These are the before and after pics. I was pretty proud of my first time sewing job. It turned out great in my opinion.
So as I was saying tonight was the ball and I got all fancy and picked up Amber. We had a blast, there were tables with cards on them so we played cards when we were too tired to dance. My favorite dance is the waltz, and most of the songs were in 3/4 so it was a perfect place to just waltz (we had learned some of the dances from the time period, but we wanted to waltz instead). Towards the end they had some judges go around and pick the top three male costumes, female costumes, couple costumes, and their favorite costumes. Guess what... I won best male costume... I was really surprised. There were these three amazing guy costumes that I thought were for sure going to win, but they won the top three couple costumes. I got an amazing feather quill, that you actually have to dip in an ink jar.... its freakin amazing, and the feather is red which is an added bonus. Below are some pics... I'm to lazy to put them where they belong in this paragraph so deal.
So ya tonight was super fun.
