Hey everybody!
This is kind of a random post, but I just wanted to let everyone know that today, on top of it being Collinsfest (which I tell tell you more about later if you don't already know...) there was also a Renaissance Fair going on! It was so cool! Jess and I went over to Dunn Meadow (where it was being held) and checked it out. Here is the website where you can see all of the really cool pictures that I took today. Unfortunately, it is not the same place as the site where I posted my Indianapolis and Chicago pictures, but that website wont let me post any more without paying to join it. So, I found one that would! Just click on the album titles "The Renaissance Fair," and click on the images to make them bigger. Then, you can navigate forward or backward through the pictures- you know how to do it :) Hope you like 'em! Ciao
http://my.opera.com/Allikat319/albums/
-a
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Friday, April 14, 2006
A Visit From The Leslies!!
Bonjour!
The past few days have been some of the best ones yet for me this freshman year. As they continued their massive "college-visit tour" around the midwest, the Leslie family came to IU to do a college visit and to see me! (of course! :)
I had such a great time with them and their friends the Lucia's. They came yesterday (Thursday) at about noon and we grabbed something to eat in the student union (something that, according to Uncle Bob, that do NOT have at Boston College... Weird....) and then they were off to their walking tour of IU campus. The weather was beautiful- that really made the days enjoyable too. Meanwhile, I cleaned up my room (yes, it was messy before- but that is just one more perk of having people come to visit me: it movitates me to clean up my room!). Afterwards, we walked up to the student rec center and watched some amazing divers dive off of the biggest boards I have ever seen! The most amazing part is that they were little kids! Auntie Donna said that I had to jump off the highest one before I graduate. We will have to see about that...
We walked all around the town and saw many cute little shops. We ended up walking around the square (the roads surrounding the Bloomington Courthouse) and ate at the Malibu Grill. We all had VERY good food (I had swordfish for the first time- YUM!) and all cheered on Marko as he tried to finish his dinner. Our waiter had told him that, if he ate all of his twelve wings, he would buy him dessert. Well, even though Mark was mighty cocky about his wing-eating ability, twelve was just too many. They were pretty big wings and SO SPICY- I don't see how he even did one. Mark- I'LL buy you dessert- how's that? Can't go wrong with a cone from DQ, I swear.
For the evening Kara, Kevin, and Kevin's friend, Jeffrey came back to the dorm with me and enjoyed some s'mores that were being cooked out on a bonfire in the quartyard. While Kara and I sipped on "Banana Split Frozen Mochas" from my cafe in the basement, the boys entertained themselves with a 2-hour frisbee game. Kara spent the night and, I felt so bad, experienced the worst night that even I have had this year. Number one- it was hot, but we couldn't open the windows to cool it off because, Number two- it was raining. And we allll know what thunderstorms in Indiana mean- yes, that's right! Tornado warnings! Yay- THAT was fun. The alarms went off and everything, but when the RA on my floor pounded on my door signaling to go to the basement, we decided to roll over and keep trying to sleep.
Overall, the visit was so great. I really appreciated that they stopped in, even after they were so tired and ready to go home after doing a crash-course visit to so many colleges. Although I only have a little over two weeks of school left, having them here really made me miss home and realize how excited and anxious I am to have this school year be over and be able to enjoy the summer.
Try not to get pulled into this nice weather (well, minus the tornados) TOO much- I know that many an afternoon has been spent on the grass, eating ice cream and listening to harmonicas, instead of doing work. Hmmm..... *Meh* You only live once: do what makes you happy, right? Hope that all is well with everyone- keep pushing towards that summer! I know I will. Ciao
-a
P.S. Also, Happy Easter, everyone! I wish that I could be there in Cinci and help y'all color eggs and everything, but I trust that someone else will find that darned silver egg without me there :) Have fun!
The past few days have been some of the best ones yet for me this freshman year. As they continued their massive "college-visit tour" around the midwest, the Leslie family came to IU to do a college visit and to see me! (of course! :)
I had such a great time with them and their friends the Lucia's. They came yesterday (Thursday) at about noon and we grabbed something to eat in the student union (something that, according to Uncle Bob, that do NOT have at Boston College... Weird....) and then they were off to their walking tour of IU campus. The weather was beautiful- that really made the days enjoyable too. Meanwhile, I cleaned up my room (yes, it was messy before- but that is just one more perk of having people come to visit me: it movitates me to clean up my room!). Afterwards, we walked up to the student rec center and watched some amazing divers dive off of the biggest boards I have ever seen! The most amazing part is that they were little kids! Auntie Donna said that I had to jump off the highest one before I graduate. We will have to see about that...
We walked all around the town and saw many cute little shops. We ended up walking around the square (the roads surrounding the Bloomington Courthouse) and ate at the Malibu Grill. We all had VERY good food (I had swordfish for the first time- YUM!) and all cheered on Marko as he tried to finish his dinner. Our waiter had told him that, if he ate all of his twelve wings, he would buy him dessert. Well, even though Mark was mighty cocky about his wing-eating ability, twelve was just too many. They were pretty big wings and SO SPICY- I don't see how he even did one. Mark- I'LL buy you dessert- how's that? Can't go wrong with a cone from DQ, I swear.
For the evening Kara, Kevin, and Kevin's friend, Jeffrey came back to the dorm with me and enjoyed some s'mores that were being cooked out on a bonfire in the quartyard. While Kara and I sipped on "Banana Split Frozen Mochas" from my cafe in the basement, the boys entertained themselves with a 2-hour frisbee game. Kara spent the night and, I felt so bad, experienced the worst night that even I have had this year. Number one- it was hot, but we couldn't open the windows to cool it off because, Number two- it was raining. And we allll know what thunderstorms in Indiana mean- yes, that's right! Tornado warnings! Yay- THAT was fun. The alarms went off and everything, but when the RA on my floor pounded on my door signaling to go to the basement, we decided to roll over and keep trying to sleep.
Overall, the visit was so great. I really appreciated that they stopped in, even after they were so tired and ready to go home after doing a crash-course visit to so many colleges. Although I only have a little over two weeks of school left, having them here really made me miss home and realize how excited and anxious I am to have this school year be over and be able to enjoy the summer.
Try not to get pulled into this nice weather (well, minus the tornados) TOO much- I know that many an afternoon has been spent on the grass, eating ice cream and listening to harmonicas, instead of doing work. Hmmm..... *Meh* You only live once: do what makes you happy, right? Hope that all is well with everyone- keep pushing towards that summer! I know I will. Ciao
-a
P.S. Also, Happy Easter, everyone! I wish that I could be there in Cinci and help y'all color eggs and everything, but I trust that someone else will find that darned silver egg without me there :) Have fun!
Sunday, April 09, 2006
My Day in Indy!
Hey y'all!
Well, I have had quite a weekend- how is everything going for everyone? (17 school days left for me! Woohoo!) Yesterday (Saturday, April 8th), my friend, Jess and I ventured up to Indianapolis for the day. I had never been there and since Jess lives right here in Bloomington, we could just use her family's car to go up there for the day. We had a great time! I really like Indy, overall. Especially the mall (Cirle Center Mall), what fun!
We first got there and parked and walked around the mall. I'm told that that is the biggest attraction in Indy. Then we walked outside a little bit and saw some great things on the street and in "The Circle," which, for anyone who doesn't know, is like the town square, except that it is round! That was cute.
We spent a lot of time at the HUGE Border's Books that they have there and just kind of hung out, read some books, grabbed some coffee, and did some people-watching (my favorite, hehe). It was nice and relaxing. Also, we didn't have that bad of weather- we lucked out. A few days before it was majorly storming here in Indiana (Friday night, I had to spend much time the basement of various dorms because of tornado warnings), but our weather was nice- a little chilly, but we enjoyed walking around nonetheless.
We had dinner at a fancy place called 14th Street Restaurant. We didn't really have any sort of specific restaurant in mind, and I saw that the neon outside of the place read "Jazz," so I suggested that we go there. It was VERY nice. We ate very well- very happy, mostly, that it was the weekend, we were in a big city in a nice restaurant, and, most importantly, NOT on-campus. :)
Even though we only stayed for the day, it was a really fun one- and it felt long too! I always like that...
Next up: Wednesday & Sunday nights: ushering for "Mamma Mia!!!" I am soooo excited for that one- I haven't seen it yet! Thursday night/Friday morning: the Leslies are coming! Ahhhhh! I can't wait! I hope that the weather hold out... Saturday: Collinsfest! For all of you who don't know, Collins is the dorm that I stay in. This Saturday is the biggest event of the year for us. We have this big celebration on the quartyard/veranda outside of our dorm all day long. We are going to have live bands all day (some are coming all the way from Indy), a Jupitor Jump (remember those??), a grill going all day along with cotton candy/snow cone stands, each organization on campus gets their own little booth or table where they will have nice food and raffles/other activites, an all-day water-balloon fight, face painting, other various games (such as: twister somehow including shaving cream. hmm.....), and, best of all: a 65-foot trough filled with a 65-foot long banana split! Whoa!! I am so excited for that.
The weekends are winding down- hope everyone else is looking forward to summer. I didn't think that the warm weather was going to affect me THAT much, but today all I did was sit outside and lay around while listening to someone playing the banjo... such nice weather! See you soon! Ciao
-a
p.s. I was going to try to post some pictures that we took while we were there, but this blog system is acting up again, so I am going to post them on the website that has my chicago pictures on it- here's the website to go to find them: http://ahendricks4.photosite.com Thanks!
Well, I have had quite a weekend- how is everything going for everyone? (17 school days left for me! Woohoo!) Yesterday (Saturday, April 8th), my friend, Jess and I ventured up to Indianapolis for the day. I had never been there and since Jess lives right here in Bloomington, we could just use her family's car to go up there for the day. We had a great time! I really like Indy, overall. Especially the mall (Cirle Center Mall), what fun!
We first got there and parked and walked around the mall. I'm told that that is the biggest attraction in Indy. Then we walked outside a little bit and saw some great things on the street and in "The Circle," which, for anyone who doesn't know, is like the town square, except that it is round! That was cute.
We spent a lot of time at the HUGE Border's Books that they have there and just kind of hung out, read some books, grabbed some coffee, and did some people-watching (my favorite, hehe). It was nice and relaxing. Also, we didn't have that bad of weather- we lucked out. A few days before it was majorly storming here in Indiana (Friday night, I had to spend much time the basement of various dorms because of tornado warnings), but our weather was nice- a little chilly, but we enjoyed walking around nonetheless.
We had dinner at a fancy place called 14th Street Restaurant. We didn't really have any sort of specific restaurant in mind, and I saw that the neon outside of the place read "Jazz," so I suggested that we go there. It was VERY nice. We ate very well- very happy, mostly, that it was the weekend, we were in a big city in a nice restaurant, and, most importantly, NOT on-campus. :)
Even though we only stayed for the day, it was a really fun one- and it felt long too! I always like that...
Next up: Wednesday & Sunday nights: ushering for "Mamma Mia!!!" I am soooo excited for that one- I haven't seen it yet! Thursday night/Friday morning: the Leslies are coming! Ahhhhh! I can't wait! I hope that the weather hold out... Saturday: Collinsfest! For all of you who don't know, Collins is the dorm that I stay in. This Saturday is the biggest event of the year for us. We have this big celebration on the quartyard/veranda outside of our dorm all day long. We are going to have live bands all day (some are coming all the way from Indy), a Jupitor Jump (remember those??), a grill going all day along with cotton candy/snow cone stands, each organization on campus gets their own little booth or table where they will have nice food and raffles/other activites, an all-day water-balloon fight, face painting, other various games (such as: twister somehow including shaving cream. hmm.....), and, best of all: a 65-foot trough filled with a 65-foot long banana split! Whoa!! I am so excited for that.
The weekends are winding down- hope everyone else is looking forward to summer. I didn't think that the warm weather was going to affect me THAT much, but today all I did was sit outside and lay around while listening to someone playing the banjo... such nice weather! See you soon! Ciao
-a
p.s. I was going to try to post some pictures that we took while we were there, but this blog system is acting up again, so I am going to post them on the website that has my chicago pictures on it- here's the website to go to find them: http://ahendricks4.photosite.com Thanks!
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Photos of Spring Break
OK
I finally did it- I made an online photo album that has all of Troph's and mine pictures from out trip to Chicago over Spring Break. Just go to the website below and it SHOULD work. I put captions for each picture. If you can't see the whole comment, just click on the picture to make it bigger and the whole comment will show up. Plus, that way, you can look at the pictures all bigger anyway! Enjoy! Hope you like 'em!
-a
http://ahendricks4.photosite.com
I finally did it- I made an online photo album that has all of Troph's and mine pictures from out trip to Chicago over Spring Break. Just go to the website below and it SHOULD work. I put captions for each picture. If you can't see the whole comment, just click on the picture to make it bigger and the whole comment will show up. Plus, that way, you can look at the pictures all bigger anyway! Enjoy! Hope you like 'em!
-a
http://ahendricks4.photosite.com
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