Kara's Annual Birthday Weekend

Wooo! This was the GREATEST weekend! It was my friend Kara's birthday on Sunday, and Julie decided to have a party for her, so eleven people came into town, seven of whom stayed at my apartment! I love having guests, so that was exciting! Saturday night, eight people actually stayed over because Chris was hanging out with us and he didn't feel like walking home. It's great having so many overnight guests because it's like slumber PARTY fun the whole time. Anne, Tim, Joe, Clark, Jenny, Kelly, Schuster, Becky, Kara, Dan, and Chris were all in town! Friday night we all went to the Union, where the Party of Helicopters was playing. After the bands, Charlie (my friend, not my cat!) was running his dance event, Danceable Solution, which is always a fun time. After that we all hung out at my house then went to sleep. Saturday was a cool day. It was sunny and warm!

T-shirts in February! So a bunch of us walked uptown and at lunch on the college green. Then we went to the record store, and visited some uptown shops. Then we went back and hung around at my place doing nothing for awhile. Then Kara, Anne, Jenny and I went to buy beer for Kara's party, and we went to the mall. For dinner, Dirty cooked for EVERYBODY over at his house, and it was AMAZING!! He made meat lasagna, vegetarian lasagna, meatballs, garlic bread and salad. And it was all absolutely fantastic. Everybody had seconds. After dinner we all went to Zachary's for fancy drinks. I got a grasshopper, and it was DELICIOUS!

Then it was about time to go to the party. It was a fun party. I will have pictures soon. The most exciting event of the night involved Jenny Wray's disgusting orange drink. She had a bottle of that orange crap called "Orange Dream." It comes in a big plastic bottle, has alcohol already mixed into it, and is supposed to taste like a creamsicle. Jenny insists that this is a delicious drink, but all the rest of us agree that it is revolting. So Anne and I ran back to my house and grabbed a permanent marker (I live about 6 houses down from Julie) and went back to the party and wrote "Nightmare" over "Dream" in big black letters. I thought that was pretty funny ha ha ha! So it was "Orange Nightmare!" HA HA!

Anyway, Jenny kept saying that this drink was soooooo great, and in an effort to prove it, announced that she would, in fact, drink the entire bottle that night all by herself. So our next mission was to ensure that this happened. We failed. We did get her to drink at least one though! You're supposed to mix it with crushed ice. There was no blender to be found, so Clark made do with a meat tenderizer and a paper towel. Jenny successfully avoided drinking much at all. But she got a lot of random people to taste it. Several of them actually LIKED it, too! Yeah... maybe this story will make more sense when I get the pictures developed.

We stayed at Julie's party until about four, when we ordered a bunch of calzones and walked back to my apartment to wait for them. It was a fun party. This morning, we all went to Union Street Cafe, a little diner that ROCKS. There were 13 of us, so it was a little difficult for them to seat us. They ended up splitting us into three different booths. Breakfast was delicious. Afterward, everyone packed back up into their cars and departed. Sigh.