"best week ever!"

so there is one perk of stilllllllllll being in school: a little thing i like to call spring break. i mean, i didn't go get crazy in PCB or anything, but i still had some good times. so here's a quick rundown of d-rap's SB2K8: whoo.

i started off the week with a trip back to good ole furman university. i hadn't really been back since graduation, so it was both weird and wonderful to be there. i loved seeing everyone, and eating at my favorite spots, and just being in a city i grew to love and now miss a lot. however, it was a bit odd being back. i guess sometimes when i leave a place, the way i deal with not being there anymore is to think that it doesn't exist anymore, like things don't keep happening when i'm not there. but they do. and so it's weird.

3 of my favorite things from the g-vegas trip:
1. izzy totally got my YL girls to ambush me, that little stinker. they all came and jumped on me saturday morning and i was completely confused. once i found my glasses and figured out who these twelve people were in bed with me, though, i loved it. we all ate breakfast together and just caught up on life. i miss them so much--i can't believe they're almost old enough to go to college!


2. needtobreathe at mcalister auditorium. if you haven't discovered this band yet, do so immediately. the show was awesome, and the encore was incredible.

3. monday morning i dropped izzy at her internship, and then proceeded to have one fabulous morning. first, i breakfast at greenfield's with my girl alex and got caught up sice she was out of town that weekend. then i had about two and a half hours to kill and it was too early for anything to be open so
i headed downtown and i walked. just walked. for blocks and blocks. and took pictures. it was a perfectly beautiful day........ the most relaxed i've felt in a long long time.



i was sad to leave but i headed home for a few days. nothing terribly exciting, it was just nice to be home and hang out with mom and alpal for a few days. shoutouts to:
1. emmy mathews, whose 21st birthday i helped celebrate on tuesday.
2. my hairdresser tracy who got engaged!

my tour of the south brought me back to chattanooga on wednesday night, when i was introduced to my new favorite activity: geocaching. it's like a treasure hunt in your backyard that no on else knows about. seriously, i felt like freakin' nick cage in national treasure or something. here's the website: they describe it way better than i can.

after hanging out and watching basketball for a few days, we celebrated saint patrick's day in grand fashion at murphy's on our last night of freedom. hilarious. here's a few snapshots, but see facebook for way too many more.

on a beautiful sunday, we ate lunch downtown at mudpie and sat on the deck enjoying the day. then, after almost eight months of living in chattanooga, i finally got to go hiking! we took a trail from snooper's rock, did some climbing, got saved by brandon and josh from certain death, and took some incredible jumping pictures.

it was a great week.

i saw so many people i love, and it was so incredible to relex and find rest and comfort in those relationships. i feel so incredibly blessed to have all of you in my life, so thank you for being such a source of strength in my life.

and for those i didn't see, i miss you a lot. expect a road trip soon. unless you've decided to live really far away, like say, i don't know, mexico. or california. you jerks are SOL. i'll have to love you from afar.