friday night kaylan and i went and got a little sushi at fuji followed by going to see SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE!
omg. it was incredible. it's just one of those movies that makes you feel good, and believe me i'm a sucker for those. i went into the movie expecting it to be a drama based on a young man from the slums of india who wins a million dollars...this premise alone would have made for an AWESOME movie, but the surprise to me was the love story. in fact, the love story is the overlying factor throughout the entire film. i ate it up. the film takes you through the main character's, jamal, life and the experiences that taught him the answers to the questions on 'who wants to be a millionaire'. he isn't a genius and he isn't lucky, but every question in the show could be related to an impacting moment in his life. apparently the director is a pretty young guy and most of the actors were really from the slums of india. the main characters are portrayed at several different ages, so it was hard to believe that the actor playing 7 year old jamal is actually from the slums. pretty low budget, amazing performances. it just goes to show (in fact, i'm pretty sure this is a theme in the movie as well) that no matter where you are from or how you grow up you have as much potential as anyone.on the the next thing!
saturday i rode with caitlin down down to montgomery! it was deb ball day! of the 8 debs, i knew lindsey and caroline (roomies), and allison. the queen deb was miss liz wiatt! but before i go into talking about the ball, there are quite a few occurences that need discussing that happened long before the ball...
once me and caitlin got to montgomery she went straight to get her hair chopped. i mean CHOPPED. 8 inches! you go girl, she gave it all to locks for love. we then had a delicious meal at Schlotzsky's. not nearly enought people have discovered this little peice of heaven that is a sandwhich restaurant. mmmm. after lunch caitlin dropped me off with lindsey and mrs. goodwyn at the shoe store. we were on the prowl for a pair of shoes for mrs. goodwyn. i knew this was going to be good...lindsey's mom has the sweetest southern accent i have ever heard, and the sweetest southern demeener i have ever seen. as you may guess, watching her pick out a pair of shoes was entertaining (for both linds and myself). "i just can't be showin' my toes at my age!" was said countless times along with other comments while me and lindsey exchanged looks. LOVE mrs. goodwyn!
later kathryn and caitlin came over to lindsey's and we all got ready for the ball together. here is where the fun began. kathryn caitlin and i needed to eat dinner before the ball (lindsey left early to go for pics), and caitlin was craving olive garden...girl was running half marathon the next day and needed her carbs! keep in mind this is VALENTINE'S DAY, so every restaurant within a 50 mile radius was gonna be packed. we took our chances and decided to call in an order and pick it up. 45 minutes later, the three of us were dressed and ready for the ball, all we needed was a little food in our tummy. as we pull into olive garden to pick up our food, the three of us begin panicking, realizing that we are 3 girls...ON VALENTINE'S DAY (why do i keep capitalizing this?) in formal attire at olive garden with no dates. ha! so we decided one of us should go in and get the food, that would look less stupid. yeah, right. i lost the paper-rock-scissors and ended up going in. by myself. got a couple of looks along the way. the food wasn't ready so i sat in the bar alone for about 20 minutes waiting. FINALLY i carried the food back out to the car (more looks) and we headed back to lindsey's to eat it.
WELL..
when we got to lindsey's house no one was there. john (her bro) had left for the ball. so we were all dressed up, had armfuls of food, and nowhere to eat it. did i mention we only had about 20 minutes till we had to be at the ball? we were planning on picking up emily on the way, but decided to go ahead to her house and eat the olive garden there. whew!
finally we made it to the montgomery country club (we had to run a few blocks in heals due to shortage of parking i might add) before the doors closed! it was a blast. all of the debs looked gorgeous (especially my faves lindsey, caroline, allison, and liz). there was dancing, socializing, and lots of meeting new people. as the night progressed people loosened up, side effect of an open bar, and the dance floor became PACKED! me and emily tore up the dance floor while lindsey and caro cut a rug with their dates. got a little electric slide injury however...didn't wear shoes and was victim to a foot smashing into my ankle. ouch. totally worth it, i kept going (it became the crippled electric slide however). we were all delirious by the time they served breakfast in the country club at 11pm, so tired! but a great end to a great night.
moving on to SUNDAY!
so we've had this tri-delta chapter bonding/i love my ddd sisters/gag me retreat planned for the past few weeks for today. the ENTIRE chapter was required to go, unless you wanted a $100 fine. we were going to la grange, ga to go on a WILD ANIMAL SAFARI...what? i don't know if you have ever heard of la grange, ga, but there are wild animals there. ummm...?
kathryn picked me up from lindsey's at 7AM. wow. def went to bed at 1am. moving on. as soon as we got to auburn we had to be at the chapter room for role call. ahhhh. it was a 45 minute drive to la grange. as we entered the 'wild animal safari' parking lot we noticed some white buses that had zebra stripes spray painted on them...we thought they were a joke but we soon found out this would be our mode of transportation through the safari. awesome. our "tour guide" was a man named william who may have had 8 teeth total. even more awesome.
as we entered the bus, which had no windows to enhance our experience, they gave us pellets to feed the animals. as soon as we drove into the safari about 45 different species of animal bombarded the bus. it was so ridiculous no one could stop laughing!
the picture on the right is just a small representation of what we encountered. yep, that is a bull with its tongue about 3 inches from my face. there were goats, emu, yaks, deer, buffalo, llamas, pigs, you name it...they had one. and they all lived together in the massive...african safari land? the only caged animals were the giraffe, the camel, the lions, tigers, oh...and the LIGER. you heard me: they had a liger, lion mixed with tiger. things couldn't have gotten more ridiculous once we saw this, but they did. the tour just kept going and going and going and meanwhile the animals just kept appearing, sticking their faces into the bus, mouths open, tongues flapping...when the tour finally ended we ate lunch and hit the road. part of the fun was wondering what made the non-tridelts who were there wake up that morning and decide to go for a redneck safari...why? lets just say we saw quite an array of people and felt severely out of place in our sorority sweatshirts and pearl earrings.
made it back to auburn around 1ish, went for my run (2 miles today), took a nice long nap (not to mention my shower was about an hour to wash off the smell of animal), and have been hanging out with the roomies tonight. it was a wild weekend (no pun intended, ha ha ha...) but i feel it was a good representation of my life as a college kid. unpredictable, friends all around, and so much fun!
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