Smiling faces, beautiful places!

Another good weekend, here are the highlights and lowlights (in no particular order)

Highlights of the weekend
1. Convincing a boy to have vegetables (note - plural) on a pizza. What a triumph! Boys always seem to revert to their caveman instincts when it comes to pizza – meat, meat, meat and oh...some more meat.
2. Driving myself to another state. Weekends are exciting times for me!
3. Getting to know Jose better.
4. Square dancing, although there is some controversy as to whether it was square or contra. Either way it was a laugh! A lot like a ceilidh before you mock, and everybody loves a ceilidh!
5. Going to the zoo and making up stories about the animals (sounds rare but actually fun. It was a lot like people-watching but with animals!)
6. Going to Jose’s church. BIG! They have so much going on there and seem to be using the space they have really well. Fair play to them.
7. Sleeping in on Saturday morning.
8. Learning about American Football. Not as good as rugby, but you know, it’s good to learn about new things. I now know what the yellow and blue lines mean, how many points for a touchdown, about the AFC and the NFC and about downs. Thanks to Jose, Jason and Will for imparting such knowledge!


Lowlights of the weekend
1. Dancing with rare, sweaty country people. In the dances there was a lot of switching partners so you couldn’t bags yourself a non-sweaty one with any degree of confidence that he would remain with you. You also had to hold hands a lot. There was one guy there whose hand would literally slip off mine it was so sweaty. Gross!
2. Not knowing any of the worship songs in Jose’s church.
3. Zac’s (Jose’s roommate) alarm going off far too early on Sunday morning.
4. Having a majorly awkward discussion in the car coming home from the dance about ‘socialism’. This guy had clearly got communism and socialism mixed up. Also he developed unhearing ears where no matter what we said, it did not matter to him.

Twice as many highlights as lowlights. There are many more highlights that just aren't suitable to be written about, including an interesting name of dance in South Carolina! Still makes me laugh even now, I'll tell you individually. All in all, I had a great weekend!

Oh and 'Smiling faces, beautiful places' is SC's number plate tag line. Like Michigan's is 'Great Lakes splendour' and NC's is 'First in flight'.