March 19-25 Spring Break!



Spring break in Galveston with Lauren was quite an adventure! I had lots of fun on my first "real" college spring break experience. Although we didn't stay a full week, I am having a hard time weeding out all the awesome pictures we took this week so I decided to devote this weeks blog post to our trip :)

We started off at the Moody Gardens Aquarium which was pretty nifty. We spent quite a while watchign the seals swim around, they were being fed right as we got there and were willing to do some tricks and show off for some food.



On Tuesday we explored the rainforest pyramid in Moody Gardens. There were parrots, monkeys, sloths, and a ton of other awesome animals to check out as we made our way through the different levels of the rainforrest. My favorite part was being a few feet away from monkeys!

The weather was not cooperating for a lot of the weekend, but that didn't keep us from checking out the waves. There are these really cool stone walkways that extend into the ocean and give you awesome pictures like this one.

This is probably my favorite impulse purchase from Kroger ever. I love pandas so much, and it's been a long time since I've flown a kite, so what could possibly be more awesome than flying a panda kite? The wind was perfect and we mostly didn't have any trouble keeping the kite up in the air.



We found this nifty telephone booth while exploring a shopping area called "The Strand."



We barely made it out before the waves started crashing and the sun went down. Our timing was nearly perfect the whole trip.



Our last dinner was at the original Joe's Crab Shack. It had an awesome view and great food (even though I got kids macaroni and not seafood haha)



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March 12- 18 Springtime at TCU

Sorry for the delay! I seem to have misplaced my camera cord :( Luckily, I'm an idiot and my computer has had an SD card reader the whole time. Oops. This particular week I was super busy with tests and a few fun things and traveling for spring break so I spent some time wandering around looking at all the pretty flowers.

Monday

I LOVE tulips!

Tuesday

We went to the Library Bar to play Bingo! I got a Bingo but so did another person and I didn't want to do anything embbarrassing to compete (think like Minute-to-Win-It kind of games) so I just let them have it... But I still won! Emily was also having good luck and won the last round which came with a bunch of prizes :)

 

Wednesday

One of my favorite places on campus



                                                                          Thursday

We had a mixer with ADPi and although I didn't have a date this time around I still had a good time. We went to a nearby bar where we had the whole rooftop section to ourselves. I met some new guys and had fun catching up with some of my friends. The theme was "guys in ties girls in pearls" which was cute.

Friday

... even more tulips!



Saturday



This year is kind of interesting because it went from winter to spring so early that the winter flowers were still here when the tulips started growing. Some of the flower beds look really crazy and mismatched but this one still looks lovely in my opinion :) As a side note: Saturday was a wonderful day that included brunch with my family at Mimi's, a pedicure with my mom and sister, and an early graduation present of an iPhone! I have the most thoughtful and awesome parents :)

Sunday

Every time I think this one is done growing and flowering, the flowers get bigger and smell more delicious. Unfortunately it also attracts bees so I try to stay away haha. On sunday Lauren and I took off on our great spring break adventure to Galveston. The drive went pretty smoothly except for a little traffic near Houston, which was expected. More on that in the next post!

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Mar 5-11th

Monday: I mailed in my official acceptance to the University of Illinois in Chicago! I know I had mentioned earlier that I had been accepted, but it wasn't official until I mailed them back a form. I waited for a while to see if everything would fall into place, and it looks like for now it will work out, even though I haven't heard from a few other schools yet. I feel like UIC is a good fit for me!

Tuesday: APO has been playing intramural basketball for several weeks now, and to be honest we are really bad (I think I've posted about this before). Well today were the playoffs, and we were actually winning for a while. We even tied and took it to overtime, which is unheard of for us because we are usually getting slaughtered so bad that they end the game early in mercy haha. It was an awesome game to watch and a great way to spend a Tuesday evening.

Wednesday: Spring has sprung at TCU! I absolutely love my campus and all of the pretty flowers and trees that bloom when the weather gets warm. This particular tree is one I have to pass every day to get to class. It smells awesome but attracts a lot of bees so I try to keep my distance.

 Thursday: I had an anatomy test on Friday so unfortunately nothing awesome happened today other than studying :P

Friday was Samantha's birthday, so as is roommate tradition we attacked her room. It doesn't show up well in the picture but we used a bunch hof hot pink yarn to tie bows and wrap everything in the room :) Happy Birthday Samantha!

Saturday: This morning was my last LEAPS. LEAPS is a campus wide day of service and this Spring APO got a big group together and visited the Como community center. This was pretty cool because I had volunteered with them earlier for Martin Luther King day of service. This picture is of our APO group doing our signature hedgehog hand sign.

Sunday: I'm counting this picture as Sunday because it was a party that lasted well after midnight. It was a band party and we ran into a lot of color guard girls. I'm a little biased but I think we all look stunning if I do say so myself!

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February 27th - March 4th

Monday was very busy and pretty boring, so my picture for the day was a result of me realizing I never posted a picture of the final product of a craft I was working on a few weeks ago. All it took was some nails and string :)

Tuesday we saw a gorgeous sunset on our way to dinner

Wednesday Lauren and I stumbled upon a craft project happening in the union, you take little bits of glass and they melt it into a coaster for you. Here's what mine looked like...

On Thursday I was also struggling to think of a picture... so I decided to include a photo of out awesome paper snowflakes! My roommates and I used these to decorate our apartment in hopes of encouraging a snow day or two this winter. Well, I've been wearing shorts all week so I think it's safe to say there will be no snow in Texas this year, but it's still fun to look at.

Friday was the best day ever, I saw Rent for what I think is the sixth time! (woah). Luckily Emily was able to join me along with two of my lovely roommates. Neither Erika nor Lauren had seen the show before. It was a community theater production but it was wonderful! It had been a while since the last time I had seen the show, and they had actually changed a few things around which was really cool. It was the student preview night so tickets were only ten dollars! Not only that, but Emily snagged us some AWESOME seats only a few rows back from the stage. I was beside myself the whole night. Thanks you guys for sharing this night with me :)

After the play on Friday evening I drove home to McKinney to find this lovely piece waiting for me. I had bought the print last semester but wanted it framed, and it turned out great! I spent Saturday enjoying the luxeries of being at home (ice machines, great food, golden retrievers, shopping with mom, video games... all the good stuff in life haha). I returned to TCU Saturday evening.

On Sunday Erika was kind enough to work with me to get me ready for this weeks chemistry lab, where the students had to build different molecules and answer different questions. Lauren decided the model pieces were pretty and created her own nonexistant molecule and determined chemistry can be fun haha.

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