Bus 15, Red Thongs, Amy's Ice Cream

So last weekend was one of the best weekends ever. I went to Austin with the SFA Young Democrats for the Young Democrats State Convention. Needless to say, the only reason people went was because it was a free trip to Austin. So we left Nacogdoches around 1 on Friday, and the drive was alright. The weather was perfect for a roadtrip. We arrived in Austin around four, and somehow didn't get lost the whole way, which is pretty impressive, considering none of us had driven that way before. We checked into the hotel and everyone else from our group had gotten there right before us. A little bit later we went out to eat at TGIFriday's because Sarah Francis works there, and she would get 50 percent off on the whole ticket, which is pretty sweet. The restaurant overlooked the Congress Bridge, and it just so happened we were there right in time for the bats to fly out. That was cool, I have seen them before, but it was from farther away. Then we went back to the hotel to figure out which club we were going to go to. We decided to go to a gay club, which is funny cause only one person out of like the six of us that went was actually gay...lol. But anyways, we took the bus that night cause we didn't want to drive downtown, so we have to cross I-35 to get to the busstop on the edge of UT. We are sitting there waiting, and then we see the bus we need pull up on the other side of the street. We all just sit there for a second, and then peel out across MLK Bolevard and run for it. We made it, and a few stops later it drops us off at an HEB that Kip and I happened to go to on Spring Break. So we're like, OK, this is bus 15, but it's not going downtown? So the driver said another 15 comes here in a few minutes....so we sit there and then the bus did come!!! So we get downtown to the gay club finally. We walk in, and it was probably 95% gay men. The song playing was a Miley Cirus song, and all the guys were singing along to it. There was this platform for people to dance on, and there was this one guy who was wearing tighty whities over a red thong. Throughout the night the tighty whities kept getting lower and lower, and by the end of the night his red thong was all he was wearing. The whole thing was pretty entertaining nonetheless. We had to take the night owl bus back, and that was an experience in in of itself. Saw some veryyyy interesting people. lol. And you thought Austin was just weird during the day. :P But anyways, got up the next morning and went to do some convention stuff. Then we went to the Capitol and toured it. Then I went to UT and met up with Diane. I got to see her dorm and then she took me to Plucker's, where I got ranch flavored chicken!!!! Then we went to go see this play called Assassins on campus, and it was really really good. I really wish I could go to UT, since there is sooooo much to do in austin! But I know I would flunk out because I would be going out all the time. So I will jsut wait like only two years until i'm done with school to move there with the love of my life. :D But anyways, the next day we had to go vote for Arika for rural caucus chair, and then we hit the road by 12ish. I ended up driving the whole way back to Nac, but I did good. It was a great weekend!!!! I can't wait for this weekend though: I am getting to see Kip for the first time in a month, I get to go to Northpark, I get to eat yummy food, and I get to see a good movie!! totally stoked.

Being Gangsta.

So today I woke up at 11. Then I braced the weather to walk three whole minutes to get to the dining hall to eat with Jordan, Stevie, and Jared. I had a grilled cheese, cherry coke, and cake with chocolate chips and coconut on it. It was good. I wanted a patty melt instead of a grilled cheese though. Oh well. Well then we walked back to the dorm and Jordan and I built a fort in the lobby and we are on our computers being gangsters as usual. This weekend my mom and sister are coming to visit me! We are going to get to eat good food and go look at pretty flowers! I might go to the movies tonight, it just depends on who is going and if it's still raining, or how much more studying I have to do, because I have three tests next week, and I have to get all A's. Like really.