Labor Day Weekend

It’s nearing the end of my visit, and so far it’s been great! Aside of my flight coming in 30 minutes late on Friday, Patrick and I had the perfect evening in, making spaghetti for a late dinner, angel food cake he had baked earlier for dessert, and cuddling up on the couch for a movie. I know some of you are probably rolling your eyes, thinking I’m getting too mushy, so I’ll spare ya. :)

Saturday was also fabulous as I was able to sleep in for a long time. Springfield seems so quiet in the morning, which makes it very easy to lie around doing nothing underneath the ceiling fan for hours. After yummy eggs and toast for breakfast, we made up for our laziness by getting a lot of shopping done. It seems like when we’re shopping together, we suddenly become experts at spending money.

So the 3 new main items in the house include stools to the tiny bar at the window connecting the kitchen to the dining room (which ended up being perfect height!), a chrome and glass shelf for the bathroom, and the start of a set of silverware (it’s so expensive we only bought about ½ the place settings we ultimately would like to have). For most of you reading this, you are probably aware that I am grossly in love with my dish set. That being said, I’ve sought out placemats and flatware to compliment it. Well, I found some placemats at Ikea just recently, but silverware has proven to be more difficult.

Patrick and I spent probably at least a half hour looking through silverware at Bed Bath & Beyond, left to look at other things in the store, and came back to look through it for another 15 minutes or so. We’ve looked at other places all throughout the last school year, and it’s like the longer we look, the pickier we get. I had no idea silverware would be that challenging, but when you’re paying $40 for just a service of 4, all the minor differences between them start to seem major, and there are a bazillion different kinds to go through. We finally decided though, and while still slightly unsure, we’ve committed to opening and washing one box for now. Oh, the drama!

That night we met up with our friend Kat, also from GVSU, to make dinner and watch some movies, and after another morning of sleeping in and being lazy, I met a few new friends during Sunday’s activities. Patrick, Kat, their friend Derek, and I all went disc golfing in a nearby park, which proved to be very humbling. I had never done it before, and not surprisingly, I threw the disc at crazy angles that only went a third the distance of my competitors (not that there was much competition with me). However, once I got used to the idea of being terrible and realized that nobody cared that I was, it really wasn’t too bad. I’d definitely be willing to go again.

Later, the 4 of us and their friend Dave all went to the cheap movie theatre hosting movies that just left the larger main theatres ($2.50 per ticket!). We arrived about 10 minutes late into the movie, and the theater was packed, so we had to split up, but afterwards we reunited and spent several hours chatting at Derek’s house over some ice cream bars.

Even though we were very tired, we dragged ourselves out of bed so we could enjoy as much of the last day of my visit as possible. So now that we’ve had breakfast and cleaned up the house a bit, we’re getting ready to leave to go check out more of the school and the Bass Pro shop than what I was able to see during my previous visits. That means I had better go- I’m not even showered or dressed in my day clothes yet and the day is fading away!