"well that only took four hours..."

Tonight Melanie, Elissa, Katie, Bianca, and I all went out for dinner for Katie's birthday, which was during winter break.  We drove all around West Des Moines looking for somewhere to eat, put our name in at 2 places, drove off with one reservation buzzer, almost died sliding on icy roads, we ended up at Olive Garden.  We ended up waiting for over an hour because apparently everybody goes out to dinner on Saturday nights... who knew.

The wait was totally worth it.  We all scrunched in around a four-person table, almost had drinks and meals spilled on us, ate four baskets of breadsticks and two giant bowls of salad, and sang happy birthday to Katie extremely obnoxiously.

Although it was Katie's birthday, Melanie was the star of the night.  Her voice is just naturally at a level higher than most people's, so when she was telling a story of a girl who had no deodorant on, everyone looked over toward our table, thinking she was talking about herself.  Then she told us about her childhood when she and her siblings would take fake grapes and suction them to their faces and pretend they were nasty moles.  She was so surprised that none of us had done that before and that we were all laughing hysterically about it.

I love these girls.  I love that I can be myself completely around them, and THAT is why they love me.  You don't get that a lot, and I am so blessed to have gotten this lucky so quickly at Drake.