eventful week

i had church's chicken for lunch last sunday, as it marked the end of my lent. it was sooo good you have no idea. then later that evening nicole and i went over to our classmate abby's house to celebrate her birthday. we had cake and played euchre. it was funny b/c i had just learned how to play earlier that day...at church. we had finished setting up for service really early and this guy happened to have a deck of cards on him so he taught me and kelly how to play euchre. it was weird playing cards at church, but i don't think citadel is legalistic about stuff like that.

then on tuesday it was free cone day at ben and jerry's so nicole, abby and i went downtown for it. i had to parallel park, but it wasn't awful, thankfully. we saw the long lineup and put an hour on the parking meter but we got our ice cream in under 15 minutes! so with 45 minutes still left on the meter, we lined up again...and again. so i had three ice cream cones for dinner that day. it was awesome.

wednesday one of the girls (well, women) on the setup team at citadel invited me and kelly over for dinner so we went and had good food and played rook and skip-bo. i brought carrot cake. over the past week i made two carrot cakes and 3 batches of banana chocolate chip muffins. i was definitely on a baking spree. plus i had to use up all the carrots and bananas we had.

thursday i had a meeting at church for the dance ministry. for easter service i joined the liturgical dance group thinking it was a one time thing, but now i think they expect me to keep doing it long term...i don't know how to break it to them that i only wanted to do it once! it was fun and i met some great people. the women are all really nice, but the best part was that i was this one little chinese girl in the midst of 8 or 9 african american women. i fit in surprisingly well; they're all really sweet.

friday i went to comerica park and saw the tigers play the white sox. the tigers lost, but it was a good day b/c we got free stuff: a replica championship ring (for the first 30,000 fans) and a tigers fleece blanket (for a credit card "application" that i know will get declined anyway).

today i stopped by london on the way back to toronto to see doreen :) i hadn't seen her for 8 whole months! we had a delicious barbecue and a good time catching up. now i'm home for two weeks before school starts again.