A Break from the Normal Weekend

So a bit of context first. One of my good friends who is now living in Florida and will be a new teacher this year emailed me earlier this week and was like I think I am coming to Missouri this weekend. We have been trying to plan sometime when we would see each other this summer, so there you go. Anyway, she was going to come with one of her good friends from Florida and they were going to try to fly into KC. Then I would drive them from KCI about the three hour trip to her house and then probably leave that night after one of her grandparents' famous fish fries. Well, I heard nada until about Friday night at like 7:45. My friend was driving from Florida to Missouri and was checking to make sure I could pick up her friend the next day from KCI at around noon. WHAT?! But okay fine and I'll get a good dinner out of it or so I thought and would make the best out of the ride from the airport to her hometown with this perfect stranger.

The ride down to my friend's hometown ended up being quit enjoyable with her friend. We talked the whole four hours about fun to deep things even at lunch at O'Charlies. We had a good time talking about my friend and some of her faults or things that are just can be her and only her. We actually had a good time agreeing on several things, but it was all in good fun nothing horrible.

We got there and it was nice to be done with driving and get ready for the fish fry and at this point pretty much decided that I would be staying the night after everyone wanting me to stay. Okay. . . the fish fry was great with all her family there, good food, and wine. Later that night my friend, her friend (my new friend) and I went on the roof to talk a bit and stare at the stars. It was amazing and kind of surreal!

Next day I went to church and lunch with everyone and decided to go on the lake with all of them too and pretty much I would be leaving Monday morning early. So a less than half a day trip turned into 2 nights and at least a day and a half trip. But we went on the lake that afternoon and evening and that was a blast a bit hot, but no sunburn here. Some of them went skiing and I went tubing for the first time and was pretty good at it for my first time I thought. My good friend surprised me at one point and decided to share the tube with me and do that, we had a blast laughing and everything that wiping out didn't really bother us. Then my friend's dad was going to ski and she was going to drive this old boat until she broke the key off in the ignition. This was proceeded by "oh gosh, oh gosh" while I was in the front seat and got excited and dropped a whole bag of chex mix all over the front of the boat. My friend's dad didn't get to ski but somehow we got the boat started again with a pair of pliers. We went to her grandparents boat for snacks and dinner. We were in a cover and my friend wanted to jump off of some of the cliffs and I followed her because her parents told me to. Well we ended up going a good ways followed by me saving my friend's life three different times. Of course she just wanted to jump and thought it was deep enough until I went down all three times and came back up after touching the bottom. Then we scaled the rocks back together for the most part back to where the boat was with a few tense funny moments of one person freaking out and the other one having to grab the other one. We both made it back in one piece though after a good time, but I was exhausted. Then we ate and finally went back that was the afternoon and evening on the lake, the perfect day!

I left there about 6:30 this morning after a pretty good weekend out of the ordinary!

What else? Oh yeah I don't know if I am going to stay in Kansas anymore, I am leaning on going back to Missouri again until I figure out what to do. There have been a lot of complications lately with stuff, a lot of stress that now I am leaning more in the direction of not staying. We'll see though, but this weekend helped me think about some things more objectively and out of context that I think I was able to listen to my gut and inside more. I don't know, pretty much everything in my life right now is unclear except a few solid things! What a fun place to be in!