what an adventure it was

so, i'm back from my adventure to grand rapids, michigan! it was such a fun trip! it was so great to get to see cristina and rebekah! everything was amazing except the travel. it was a complete fiasco (humm...fun word)! the flight to chicago was supposed to leave from LAX at 10:55, but was delayed SIX HOURS due to bad weather in chicago! so, i was supposed to get into grand rapids at about 8:45 MI time (three hour time difference), but didn't get in until 2:45am! but i do consider myself lucky. since our flight was delayed so long, we got put on a 9:30 flight out of chicago and lucky for us that was also delayed three hours and left at 12:30 or else it would have meant a night in chicago and a 7:30 flight out.

well, thursday i got to bed at 4:00am and then got up around 7:00. it was a nice three hours of sleep. :) it snowed pretty much all day friday, which was awesome, or it would have been had i had warmer cloths. oh yeah, did i mention our luggage got lost??? (i did have warm cloths...just not on) so that was nice and chilly. thankfully cristina let me borrow a coat, so i was nice and warm. i got a tour of calvin's campus and met with some people from calvin. it was cool. later that night i got to get my luggage. it was also my first meijer experience. seriously! i'm telling you we NEED those in CA. it's like a grocery store, target, sport chalet, and a bed bath and beyond all combined in one, plus much more! i want one...too bad we probably don't have enough room here to build one and do it justice. :) so, after cristina and i hung out and watched the weather channel...yeah we're cool like that.

saturday was nice. complete with lunch, much hanging out, some guitar hero and night sledding! we went to lunch at a place called rose's it was on reed's lake, which was frozen over and covered with snow and had many ice fishers hiking out to the middle of it. rebekah and i agree that ice fishing is definitely something we would not like to do, but apparently that is cristina's newest aspiration. psh what a loser! :) haha! just kidding. sledding was definitely a highlight except for the fact that we didn't know which hill people had recommended and probably looked funny for while trying to forage out own path through the powder. it was a good time. we did finally find the intended hill, which wasn't hard to find, and had some fun with that. the only downside is the fact that the "sleds" (metal try things) we were using hurt your butt if you fall off of them. it was totally worth it though!

later we amused ourselves by watching "Meet the Robinsons", which i was told i absolutely had to see. it was a very cute movie and hilarious! add some guitar hero to the mix and you have a party with us three. but i'm still wondering how rebekah got so good...or maybe i just really suck...probably. still love it though!

it was a fun trip! i'll put up some pictures now! :)