weekend at the V pt. 1

Crazy weekend! :) Here is my stream-of-consciousness post about this weekend...
Friday was busy. Josh was at work and I was busy w/ things at home. We randomly decided to go visit Verity and surprise our friends there over the weekend. We heard that several of our friends were going to be there for the super bowl. It was going to be a 9ish hr. drive. We needed to leave in the middle of the night Sat morning so we could be there by brunch Sat. We were going to eat dinner Fri night and take a nap before getting up to drive. Josh is assistant coach of the basketball team and we had a game Fri night.

Around dinner time, Josh called me and said that we were going to leave right after dinner, head to the game, and get on the road to Indy right after that. So I scurried around packing our stuff and getting a good supply of snacks. Josh came home and we ate and ran to the game.
The game went really well in the first 1/2. But the other team dominated the second 1/2. :/

After the game we ran back to school, tied up some loose ends, and hit the road to Indy around 10:30. I drove the first few hours while Josh slept. It was rainy/snowy and very foggy. The mountain roads I was driving on were very curvy and windy. It was definitely an experience. :) Josh took over around 2am and drove the rest of the way.
The trip took way longer than it was supposed to because of the weather. After Cincinnati we got on to highway 74 and the roads were terrible. We were going 30mph and even stopped dead and turned the car off and sat for 20 min on the road!

We finally pulled into the V around 11:45 - 13 hours later. We were really tired, but stopped by a McDonald's and freshened up before getting to the V. We were excited about seeing our friends and surprising them. The timing was perfect. We called Darren to wish him happy birthday and he put Josh on speakerphone so he could say hi to everyone. Josh acted like it was no fair that Darren was at the V and Darren said "you guys should be here right now!" Then we walked in the door. It was priceless. It was so worth the long drive the night before. They were all shocked to see us. They said the weekend just got that much more amazing when we walked in :)

It was SUCH a good weekend. Josh and I hung out w/ Rhett and Sarah and had a blast w/ them. We did all the Verity things. Ultimate frisbee, rook, Dutch Blitz, and foosball. It was awesome. Josh and I owned at foosball ;)
After brunch we hung around greeting all our old friends and chatting. Josh played a few rounds of ping-pong then we headed out in the snow and played Ultimate. Then we came in and relaxed w/ some hot chocolate and a game of rook.

For Darren's birthday Saturday night we went to a Mongolian restaurant. It was awesome.We experimented with different foods and I had duck for the first time (tastes like chicken). I also ate little octopus legs. It was kind of gross. Too chewy! lol :P It was an awesome time. Great food and great friends! We played rook while waiting to get our food, and SamJo came and hung out w/ us too. :)
We got back to the V around 10 and wanted to hang out, but Josh and I were exhausted from the night before. So we went to bed and got 11 hrs of much needed sleep. I got to stay w/ my awesome roommate Bethany and Josh stayed w/ our good friend SamJo. :) It was a great day!