I'd call it epic.

This weekend is one for the books. But hold on. Lets also use this time to reflect and document the happenings of last weekend.

Last weekend
Last weekend we had the blessing of going on Staff Retreat. This only happens twice a year but I'd lie if it was not a huge reason I am an RA. I love time with the staff and getting away together is just beautiful. This year we went to Steph Yoder's lake house 2 hours away. We left IWU on Friday and stopped for dinner at 800 degree Woodfired Pizza. That was...incredible. We followed up that meal with a little Starbucks.

We finally got up to the lake house and unloaded the van only to get back in it to go get groceries for the weekend and rent a movie. Oh and all during this we are jamming in the IWU van listening to top hits and singing our hearts out...like all girls should. I will always remember singing Johnny & June with Noelle. Anyways, we got back, put in the movie and went to bed after that.

Saturday morning we woke up around 10. We all kinda did our own thing. I passed the volleyball with Steph, and threw the frisbee with Emily. We had an amazing lunch and then sweet Bill the neighbor took us out on his boat...for like 4 hours. It was crazy relaxing and just a beautiful day. We came back to eat dinner and get dressed for our big square dancing event at Pokagon that night. We danced till we couldn't dance anymore.

We went back to Steph's and talked around the fire and fell asleep. 

Sunday morning came and Emily and Noelle made breakfast and we had a time of worship together and then spent time in solitude. In the early afternoon we packed up and headed back to campus. If I could only use two words to describe the weekend: joy and peace.

This weekend
That brings us to this weekend. Well it's homecoming so that added excitement and Emily was on court and won Queen! Ok, so friday Katie and I watched a movie and made homeboys (secret recipe). The parade was cancelled due to rain so everything was moved inside. Thats where we watched Emily be crowned. Then after all of that I went to a Jon Mclaughlin concert. That was great. Saturday morning Ben and I and Katie and Tim went out to breakfast and played the American Girl game, it was an all-american morning.

Katie and I took naps on Saturday afternoon and I did a bit of homework (not nearly enough). Saturday night was a little thing we like to call The After Party. This is the first IWU dance that I have been able to attend and lets just say it set the bar very high for me. So awesome. That wrapped up around 12...and we did what we have dreamed of doing for so long. We took the trek to Kokomo in the middle of the night to go to Dirty Dan's Donuts. They open up at 1am and serve fresh donuts. The line was out to the middle of the parking lot. It was in a super sketch neighborhood. We were all freezing. But the donuts were awesome. We got back to IWU at 3. Finally got to bed and we all woke up for Church this morning. If that isn't an epic weekend. I don't think that I want to know what is.