SPRING BREAK!

Okay, I'm finally posting a blog (SUSAN!). I know it's been a while so I'll try to say what's been up along with some fun pictures.
I had midterms last week and I think they went really well. I'm trying to make all A's this semester because Tim said he would get me an i-pod Nano if I did. (I feel like I'm in 5th grade but who cares! I want a Nano!!) The second half of the semester is going to be pretty hard though. I have a 12-15 page paper due and Latin is going to get harder because we're going to be doing a lot of translating. Hopefully, it will be do-able. I'll let you know if I get my nano. ;)
After midterms were finished I went for an interview at Handley Middle School and I got a job as a tutor starting on Monday! I'm really excited about it and will hopefully doing that this summer instead of my present job. I think it's going to be really neat and I'm looking forward to the experience as well as the MUCH better pay. :) I'll let you know how it goes but I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
After my interview on Friday (yes, I had a busy day!) we met our friends Chris and Katey at our apartment and we started the drive down to Houston. We stayed until Monday and we had SO much fun and were really busy. Friday night as soon as we got to the Woodlands we ate at a really nice and fun restaurant but I can't remember the name. Then we went to Katey's dad's house, where we were staying for the weekend, and met her parents and talked to them for a while. That night we enjoyed the hot tub for a while and tried to watch a movie but that didn't last. On Saturday we got up around 9 and went ice-skating at the Galleria and then to the rodeo that night. Chris was the only one who had ever gone ice-skating but the rest of us learned quickly and had a blast slipping and sliding around on the ice. There were a few misadventures, I fell once and Tim and Chris raced around and on the final turn Tim slid by me and took out a little kid who was quietly waiting on the side. After a few angry glares from the mother they quickly left and the boy wasn't too hard.
The rodeo was a blast; we ate sausages and funnel cakes and sampled all of the various toffee, candy, and garlic that the stands had to offer. Afterwards we went back to the house and had a really good conversation before calling it a night.
Sunday we went to Galveston and fed seagulls, flew a kite, and ate awesome seafood at Willie Gee’s. That night we grilled burgers and watched part of a movie before the night ended.
Monday morning Tim and I slept in and got everything together to leave. We stopped to eat at the Potato Patch in Houston (the food, once again, was awesome!) where they served fried okra and threw fresh and hot biscuits at us. We had fun on the drive back to Arlington and Fort Worth; so much fun in fact we decided to go watch a movie near their apartment complex. Those plans didn’t pan out because Katey’s bracelet got misplaced but Chris saved the day when he found in under the dishwasher in his apartment. We then watched 24 and finally they brought us home around 10:00 last night.
So our first weekend of spring break was fast and furious but a ton of fun. We got to do things that some of us hadn’t done (ice skate for Katey, Tim, and I and sit through a whole rodeo – Chris and Katey and feed a whole bag of Doritos to some sea gulls and I don’t think any of us had done that!) So here are some pictures to go along with this tremendously long post! Have a great rest of spring break!!