iturnedmyselfinsideout:

No matter how big or small the adenture is, Laurel and I always manage to have one.

Last night was on the larger scale of things.

At first we were going down 66, the fairfax county parkway, in Herndon closer to Reston and then…..

We didn’t know where to turn. Which is highly unlike me, I usually have an excellent sense of direction. And Laurel…not so much. She admitted this herself.

It must have been my green zebra spandex that I was wearing that threw me off. Because last night, Laurel had a sense of direction. After frustrated calls from dad, 4 U-turns, yells and dramatic lurching forward from breaking abruptly from Laurel, literally almost hitting 3 pediatrians (I think I hit one) getting lost on our way OUT of the parking garage, condescending looks from Security gaurds, people on the street, while running through the street attempting to find the ice skating rink, we finally made it.

Ice skating was a lot of fun this year, I got many good compliments on my outfit… Which I was totally worried about. Lots of people got mad at me though because I didn’t tell them that it was “dress totally awesome night”.

Blake looked awesome (surprising?) we had similar 80s light blue windbreaker jackets (embarassing). I got Jason to come! I told him he had no choice. He had fun. I met a few new cool kids and played tag with Amy and them. Bailey and I raced. I was too afraid to attempted to do spins, kinda regret it. Kristy fell like 4 TIMES. I love her. Ashley and Ryan came! Ashley did a great job for her first time ice skating : ) Laurel was a good teacher. I kinda felt bad for all the non-Younglifers at the rink. I’m sure they were harassed a lot.

We went to Cosi’s after and I stole people’s s’mores. I mean they’re my favorite thing to eat…. And I ate some Meditteranean sandwhich which EVERYONE seemed to want a piece of. “I’m sorry guys but I haven’t eaten since lunch..” didn’t mean much to anyone. Blake was constantly stabbing for one of the pieces of chicken with a s’mores stick.. He eventually got it.

And then Laurel and I had a whole new adventure on our way home…. It was almost as dramatic as the first one : )

great story but you forgot to mention we were literally there at one point, christmas lights and all! and i had some crazy opiphany and knew where i was and you didnt listen to me and drove off in the wrong direction.  then we got lost for like 20 more minutes. :)  okay no hard feelings. i just feel the people must know the truth …. haha