Snow Day

I do not know where you are from but in Chesapeake the last big snow I remember was 7^th grade, so when I experienced my first Blacksburg snow it was AMAZING. Freshman through junior year in high school I do not remember having any snow days but senior year he had a snow day because of 100 percent chance of snow and we got nothing, not even a flake.

Saturday morning at 8:30am there were loud banging noises coming from the door. My roommate and I were asleep so it took awhile to register. I am the bottom bunk so it was my job to get out of bed to open the door and when I got out I looked out the window and it was snowing. I said it really loudly, “It is snowing…” and my roommate thought I said ‘it is noon…” That would have been very bad because we were supposed to get dressed and ready to leave at 10:15am to go to Olive Garden for our best friend’s birthday. We both got out of bed except I got back in bed where it was warm and watched the snowfall, meanwhile my roommate was already to go and turned and looked at me and said “what are you doing?” so I got out of bed and put on my snow gloves, two jackets, two fuzzy socks, rain boots (I left my snow boots at home), and jeans. When we got outside, there were about 5 of us and we walked across the drill field, made snowmen, walked around the duck pond and took pictures, threw a couple of snowballs at each other in a very friendly way. Then we went back to our rooms to get ready to catch the bus at 10:15am to Christiansburg. We got off at Wall-Mart where we all bought sleds for five dollars and carried them around for the rest of the time in Christiansburg. After Wall-Mart we walked to Olive Garden with our sleds and then we got there at 10:50am and it does not open until 11am so half of them went sledding and the other half stood by the door and waited until 11am. We were the first ones in the restaurant and since Lauren was not there yet because she went sledding we told them about her birthday and ordered a cake and everyone paid a dollar. By the time we left for Christiansburg there were 8 of us so the cake was not very expensive. After Olive Garden we went to Old Navy because they were having a sweater sale. I did not by anything but others bought the sweaters for ten dollars. They were very cute sweaters too. Then we ran out of the store because we thought we saw the BT transit but really it was a dumpster outside Sears. While we were walking around we actually saw the BT transit and we chased after it and then got on the bus. I was the last person to get on and an elderly man stopped me and said, “I did not think you still used sleds anymore.” And I just smiled at him and said “yes we do.” When we got back to campus we went to our dorm rooms to change into clothes were we could play in the snow. Then we played in to snow by sledding down the hill at Hillcrest, by Lane Stadium, by the cage, and behind Slusher. I had never been sledding before and it was a lot of fun. We went down on our stomachs, on our butts, and we even put the other person’s foot in the sled before us and had all 8 of us go down in a train line sort of thing. That was the best because we went down fast and controlled. Remember in Chesapeake we do not get snow and if we do it is .25in to .5in and then there are no hills to go sledding down. I would have liked to go traying with the dinner trays but I like my purple sled better. By 3:30pm we had been in the snow all day and we were all frozen so we decided to go in and drink hot chocolate and I did homework. I had not done the linear algebra do that evening; however, it took my two hours at the most. That evening I went to the GYM. I love the GYM it is so much fun and it makes me so happy. I had not been to the GYM before until I got here. I came back ate a salad and showered so I could go to the PJ swing dance down South Main Street. That was a lot of fun J I enjoy swing dancing a lot! After swing dancing, I did not get back in my room until about 12:30am because the dance did not get out until midnight. You could leave earlier if you wished but I did not wish. When I got back I ate more food and watched gossip girl. I told myself I will do the rest of my homework Sunday and make Sunday my productive day. It was a very productive day which was all worth it because Saturday was a lot of fun and as the birthday girl put it was the best birthday ever.

I hope of you had fun in the snow and that is did not distract you from all your homework like it did me. I am so glad I had Sunday to catch up. I heard it is supposed to snow again this Saturday, but at the same time I hope it does not so I can focus on finals and not wanting to go outside and play in the snow.

I had a great semester will all of you and thank you so much for reading my blogs each week. I am going to be honest some weeks I had no idea what to talk about so I just kept typing about random stuff. Thank you again.