"Featuring Prof. Thomas Ferris" among others. |
Tom also sang Hakuna Matata with another professor, which may have pushed the needle toward hysterical...
2. Will had a soccer game scheduled for 9:30am Saturday morning in Houston. I woke up early and checked my phone for weather updates, and when I saw a message from the team manager indicating that the fields were open and the game was a go, Will and I loaded up and pulled out of the driveway at 7:11am. An hour and a half later we arrived at the athletic complex in Houston. While Will put on his shinguards, I disconnected my phone's bluetooth from the car's audio system...and started to see notifications coming through on our team app.
"Fields closed."
And then...
"Game cancelled."
You guys. These notifications had come in at 7:14am, just three minutes after I pulled out of my driveway in College Station. Will and I got up early on a Saturday and drove all the way to Houston only to find out his team wouldn't be playing after all.
Normally this kind of shake-up would lead to a meltdown...by me. I plan and organize most aspects of our lives because if I didn't, we wouldn't get anywhere on time nor would we be able to balance school, work, music, dance, sports, etc. I also HATE wasting time and money, and this unnecessary 90-minute drive to Houston wasted both.
But for some reason, this time a drastic change in plans didn't break me. Will and I decided to make the best of our situation, so we started with a walk/jog/adventure through the park. We eventually ran into three other friends/teammates of Will's who had also made the drive, so before we climbed back in the car the boys ran off a little steam (and the parents hoped we wouldn't get a ticket for letting the boys play on the closed fields).
The cement path on which we jogging rounded a bend and stopped abruptly in front of a heavily wooded area. We ventured through the trees and came out on the other side near sandy dunes and a river. |
The sand by the banks of the river was so saturated from days (weeks? months?) of rain that it sucked us in like quicksand...kind of creepy! |
Will's sandals and my fashion sneakers weren't the right footwear for our little hike, but we didn't let inappropriate dress hold us back! |
Hallelujah! |
Ready for the journey home! |
I know I'm biased, but that's one handsome boy. |
3. Meanwhile, Hallie spent the morning with Tom at an TAMU engineering recruitment event. (She attended a lot of work events last week.) When I finally made it back to town and picked her up, she had been sitting on the floor in the corner of a lecture hall listening to professors describe and answer questions about their research for more than three hours. She was, however, still in such a good mood that I couldn't help but treat her to cookies at College Station's newest cookie shop. She ordered a "Tiffwich", a cookie and ice cream sandwich which happened to be the size of her head and made her as happy as...well, as happy as a little girl with two cookies and a pint of ice cream. And lucky me - she gave me three delicious bites.
This is how much was still left after she had been eating nonstop for 10 minutes. |
4. Last month Hallie had the opportunity to sing the National Anthem at an Aggie basketball game. She loved the experience, but left that day kind of bummed that a scheduling conflict meant she couldn't actually stay for the game. So when another opportunity to perform at an Aggie basketball game arose - this time with the Aggie Youth Dance Day - Hallie couldn't wait to go, both to dance and to see a great game of basketball.
Hallie is hard to find, but if you really look, you can see her in the front row of the back/older half of girls. Her blond hair is in a ponytail and she's wearing a skinny black headband.
This week was chock full of great opportunities made possible by the community in which we live, and for that I'm truly grateful.
5. Happiness Highlights:
I discovered the reason why the Sam's Club chicken melt is my favorite on-the-go lunch: "Sandwich Bros. of Wisconsin". |
A polaroid of me and the birthday girl, taken during her party but also apparently during the 1970s... |
This girl's hair is really starting to come into its own - waves and even curls for days, and that blond... 😍 |
I guess we know what she thinks about life in Missouri... |
Linking up with High Five for Friday here:
That karaoke night sounds like a lot of fun!
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