in virginia

Hello! I have a moment and I wanted to share pictures from things we've done this weekend... I have loads of pictures!!!! (but unfortunately, they won't upload... I'm rather upset)

Okay... so first of all, it took Brooke and I nine hours to drive up to Purcellville, VA (to Patrick Henry College). We made really good time, considering we made lots of random stops on the drive.

The first night, we met up with Jonathan and Chris, two of Brooke's off-campus friends, for dinner. We went to their house and watched a movie. It was a rather late night (we got back to PHC at around midnight).

Saturday we left for DC at 8:30 am... lots of fun but also quite cold. We saw lots of stuff :) Library of Congress, Capitol, White House, National Archives, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, WWII Memorial... and more... I'll put pics up like I said so you can see everything. That was a super long day and we were exhausted from all the walking. Good though.

When we got back to campus (around 6:30 pm) we changed quickly and met up with a guy named Brian, another Brooke, and Jonathan. We rode in Jonathan's (big, huge, very loud) truck to a mini-golf place. I kept score as everyone else played in the FREEZING weather. We went to IHOP for dinner (yum!). I think I've taken a bite of college life because we got back super late.

Sunday we went to church near Leesburg I think, to Cornerstone Chapel. Good sermon. We returned to school and waited with a girl named Emily for a guy to return from the airport and went to lunch at Quiznos in Leesburg. It was cold so that was our only stop. We picked Erin up from the airport later that afternoon, and then went to the Urbina's house (my mom was really good friends with them when they lived here when I was little, they live in Purcellville, and wanted to have us over)... we had really good chili, talked, and played Rummikub for awhile. Brooke has decided to adopt them as her surrogate family.

We went to the grocery store and picked up some things to eat (nice thing, food). Meredith, Brooke's roommate, was back by that time so she slept in her bunk and Brooke and I took the top. My, that was cozy.

Got up at 7:30 to go running here. Horrible idea because I've been sick, so after a little while my lung decided it didn't want to continue helping me breathe. We went with a guy named Jarod, so he and Brooke ran ahead while I pretended to be a chainsmoker, coughing up my lung. Okay, so that's a little dramatic, but what can I say? it was cold, wet, and I couldn't breathe. (edit: YES just one of them... the other one felt just fine )

Today Brooke will have class and I'll write my paper. I'm supposed to go to Western Civ with her at 1pm but until then am by myself :) At around 4, we will dress up and go to DC for this supposedly really awesome Italian food, and maybe see the monuments at night. I think it will be a big group: Brooke and I (obviously), Brian, Jonathan (again), Erin, Cilla, Molly... and the list goes on. So I'm looking forward to that. My plane leaves from Dullas at 8pm on Tuesday and I'll get back late that night (I have a fun layover in Charlotte and I need to figure out how to navigate an airport so I'd love prayers for travel-ish things).

Good for you if you read that. It was long, I know (I wrote all that here because I didn't feel like writing in my journal). I'll put pictures up in another post soon. For now, I'll see y'all later :)