Road Trip

I went on another crazy college trip, this time to Lawrence, Kansas. One of the seniors wanted to visit KU, so I went with her, Cris, and one of the boys. Cris drove there and back. Here's the trip by numbers:

8 (pm)- time we left the house on Friday night to start driving to Missouri.
11- number hours it took to get from Chicago, IL to Lawrence, MO.
4- number of Starbucks we passed on the way there that were closed.
3- number of gas stations we went to that turned out to be closed.
4- approx. hours of sleep I got on the drive up (and the drive back, for that matter).
3- total times I got mistaken for a prospective college student.
1- hour was how long it took for our college tour (outdoors in 15 degree weather).
2- times I got lost driving (both times I was looking for the Kansas boys' house)
11- number of hours it took to drive back to Chicago.
7- approx. number of total hours Cris and I talked while in the car.
5- number of entire CD's from my personal collection that we listened to.
10- number of hours the kids slept in the car (on both the way there and the way back).
7 (am)- time we got back to Chicago.

So yeah I'm pretty exhausted and still catching up on sleep. But all in all it was a lot of fun, and the senior is really excited about KU. She's positive she wants to go there next year. So I'm glad we went.


Tonight Lucas and I went to a new Thai restaurant. We got Thai iced coffee and I got Pad Thai. Then we went bowling in a bowling alley that has been open since 1918. It looked, though, like the last time it got re-decorated was in the 1970's--lots of wood paneling and such. It was the first bowling alley I've been to where you had to keep track of your own score with pencil and paper. Then we walked home in the rain. It was a fun date night.

Right now, I'm in a really good place in my job and my life. Now all I have to do is prepare for next year...


--Rebecca