¿Donde Están Los Zapatos?

So I drove up today into 204 Blue St (which my GPS refuses to believe exists - turns out that my Magellan thinks it is a whole block and street away from where we actually are. Oh well, I'll actually have to use my sense of direction this year. UGH.) Khadijah and Noelle were there, and the house is actually quite nice. I'll try to upload some pictures soon enough - I already took like 70 pictures! We had a great day which entailed the following:

1. Unpacking MANIA (no Alice, it's not an acronym)- not very exciting, other than I got a good bedroom. Me + John squared.
2. Lunch at Richard's Restaurant. Yes, that's what it's called. They only serve a limited amount of drinks for lunch. These include (according to the sign): Tea, Coke, and Pepsi. Luckily, the tea was fine for me, but it was almost too sweet for me. Which is saying something, considering I'm probably the "most southern " (geographically) of all the other BNs. Richard's Restaurant is a very greasy, quaint diner, where the service is mediocre, but the food slides down just perfectly, if you know what I mean. Definitely going to be a regular for me. It's cheap and unhealthy :)
3. The Foxtrot Festival - A celebration of fried food, gospel music, and arts and crafts. Basically amazing. We watched a couple of gospel groups sing, enjoyed some smoothies, and then just walked around.
4. Dinner with Minda + Piggly Wiggly - Pizza Hut for dinner and we bought items for tomorrow's lunch of peanut butter and jelly + cold cut sandwiches. Piggly Wiggly was quaint, although some people were disillusioned with the amount of "pig parts" that were available to be purchased. Hahaaha. It's called Piggly Wiggly, what do you expect?
5. Chillout time with Lauren's Birthday, Catch Phrase, Cards, and Wii. This included an epic event of having the candles blown out (thanks to John Deans), delicious cake, and fellowship. We later had an intense game of Catch Phrase, epic hula-hooping and tennis-ing on the Wii, boxing matches (Lauren vs. Noelle: Winner - LAUREN) and (David Womble vs. Brandon: Winner - BRANDON), and finally, a HUGELY epic game of spoons, where the winner emerged as Charlotte, but the surprise runner-up was first-timer John Deans! Woot!

That's all we did today, but I can already tell that this is going to be an amazing summer. We're already bonding and having a great time, making decisions, buying cake.. the whole house thing might just work out.

Oh, and so we're working on a name for this house - maybe Betty Blue Bloom (Khadijah?) The Blue House (Jharlotte?)
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Memorable Quotes of the Day (until we get a quote board):
"¿Donde Están Los Zapatos?" (Rosetta Stone Spanish HATES US)
"What a fail day in heaven!" (Noelle?!)
"It is INTENSELY COLD IN HERE! " (John Deans - with feeling - about the coldness at Pizza Hut)

"What's the difference between Chocolate Cake and Lemon Cake?"
"One's chocolate....and one's lemon??" - Unknown

"I'm reading the Faerie Queen, which isn't as gay as it sounds" (David Womble about his reading habits)

"How do you start this timer?" (Charlotte)
"There's only one button..." (John, reprimanding Charlotte about the intricacies of the CatchPhrase buzzer)

"David, I thought I expelled you from this house!" (Khadijah expelling me)

"Is there a Y in Marion?" (Misc. People)

"Veggie Salad?" Uhh..

"Life gets better Noelle, alright?"