Well I'll get to that in a bit. But for now I'll start from the beginning of the weekend. On Friday night I went with E to Buffalo Wild Wings. There we met up with other people from E's class. Although I met and talked to a lot of people, we spent most of the night talking to someone who was also from Minnesota! It was fun comparing notes and learning that he grew up really close to me.
As it started getting late, we had a couple of people asking E or I to be a DD for them to get to a bar & grill not to far from where we were. We ran into a little problem because I don't know how to drive manual very well, as I've only had one lesson and that's the car that E and I have. But I also was really nervous about driving a bunch of people that I didn't know at all, in the dark, and they were intoxicated on top of it. So Captain W (the fellow Minnesotan we were talking to all night) could see the hesitation on my face and volunteered to drive them. We followed in our truck and the plan was to bring him back to his vehicle after he'd dropped off the group going to the next bar. As we were following we kept getting further and further away from anything that looked like a restaurant. Eventually we turned around. Watching them drive in front of us switching lanes at the last minute made me really glad I wasn't driving, because I would have been a wreck. We did eventually find the place (they totally could have just walked from BWW) and then went home for the night.
Then comes Saturday!! After running to pick up some uniforms for E we met up to go tubing down the river that was not too far away from post. We arrived at 1130 like everyone said we should do and only a few people were on time. We didn't even leave the parking lot until 1200. Then we drove and drove and drove and kept thinking we were lost. We eventually found the place and rented tubes. We turn around and realize that we've lost two people. They had to drive back because one of them realized they had forgotten their wallet (but didn't think to ask anyone to pay for them). They arrived and then we had to wait for more people. And then once they arrived, we had to wait for more people. The theme of the day was waiting.
Eventually we were off. The float was slow to begin with but we weren't in a big hurry. We knew that it was only 4 miles and didn't expect it to take too long...little did we know it was going to take us until about 1845. Along the river we encountered mini rapids, snakes, and spiders. We had many laughs from good embarassing story telling, grown men shrieking and running across tubes of people to get away from snakes and spiders, and simply being in good company. I got to know a lot of people and still have to really think to try to remember everybody's names (because I have to know both first and last names! and there were 19 people there). Eventually the float came to an end and we sat around waiting for the bus to come pick us up. It was taking a long time, so someone called to see what the hold up was. We found out that we were waiting in the wrong spot. We were supposed to walk up a ways to meet the bus. The bus ride back to our cars was an adventure in itself. We almost got stuck going up a hill, and almost got crashed into by a fast car. We were all thankful to arrive back in one piece.
At this point I was hot and a little bit burnt. I had a headache and it had been a long day. We decided to go out for dinner with a few people on our way back home. So there we sat, in our wet clothes, eating dinner listening to mediocre live music. Overall it was a very full, very fun day.
I met another wife, who didn't seem to have any problem with the extra time. Apparently grocery shopping and preparing meals for the week kept her busy enough. But maybe we will get together and go do stuff in the future. It was fun to meet people this weekend.
Now to the best part. Despite my mom-like efforts to convince E to wear sunscreen and to keep applying, he now looks like a bright tomato. You can see the spots where he sprayed on sunscreen and refused to rub it in (despite my begging him to rub it in). Now he is sitting covered in cooling aloe gel.
This morning we went to church and got a homemade pie! It was nice to come back and have so many people remember us. After church we went out to lunch with E's friend from NDSU just like old times. Now I have to find something to occupy me for the rest of the day because E has so much homework.
This weekend was well worth all of the sitting around though. I was nervous about feeling out of place with E and all of his classmates, but I felt really welcomed. Most of the time I could follow what they talked about, and there were plenty of girls that showed up anyway.
I can't wait to see what next weekend holds!
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