It's always an adventure when I'm around...

The end of transition in Vicksburg was pretty good, we had a "fish fry" one night and it was supposed to be outside, but was moved to the gym due to a downpour. The gym had no power, so it was a nice romantic candle light dinner...and there was really good sweet tea! After the dinner ended, it was about 7:30pm and as we headed outside to our dorms across campus, something felt strange...it was randomly bright and sunny and looked like it should have been about 3 in the afternoon...not after the sun had set...but it had stopped raining, so I was happy...that was, until I heard people talking about "the calm before the storm" and how that is the exact weather/sky right before a tornado! Ahhhh! No worries though, we didn't end up having a tornado to my knowledge...thank goodness!
So we packed up our 15p van and a dodge mini van (we were psyched to get a mini van rather than a huge cargo van or truck this round) yesterday morning and started out on our 12 hour drive to Greensboro, NC. With AmeriCorps and the Government vehicles we can't drive more than 10 hours a day, so we drove 8 yesterday and stayed in Atlanta, GA at a (not so) Quality Inn, where we ate dinner at Chipotle (delicious fast-food Mexican) and then went to see Tangled (for the second time) at a cool $2 theater! It was a great night. Today we finished off the trip driving 4 hours through GA and South Carolina, stopping at Pizza Hut for lunch, where this one was unique and had a $5 lunch deal with a salad, bread sticks, cini-sticks, and a personal pan pizza! We stopped again in Lexington, NC about 30 minutes from our destination to switch drivers one last time, when I managed to lock the keys in the van! Ahhhh I didn't mean to...I didn't know that the keys were still in there, but everyone else was inside using the bathroom, which was where I was headed, so I didn't want to leave the van unlocked and available for anyone to steal! Alleigh had left the keys in the cup holder, thinking that I was staying in the van...simple mistake....but leading to an adventure, of course! So we called GSA (the government version of AAA) and a guy came in about 30 minutes and busted in and got the keys for us...so it wasn't terrible, but kinda funny! The team was in good spirits saying that "something had to go wrong, otherwise it would have been a boring road trip!" That made me feel a little better!
Anyways, we finally arrived in Greensboro at 4:31pm and got a tour of our sweeeeeet housing...with get this...INTERNET and CABLE!!! MY computer even gets the internet, so it is amazingggg! YAY! The only downer is that we are sleeping on cots...not beds, but no biggie. We are also in a really awesome area and there are so many shops and cool things to do! We ate dinner at Zoes Kitchen, an adorable little place that is kinda like Panera, but even better! I got a half of chicken salad sandwich and a piece of chocolate cake :) We are also super spoiled because our sponsors told us today that they have churches lined up every day of the workweek until we leave to bring us dinners every night! Crazy! We are really excited that this round is off to such a great start....totally opposite of our last round! It's really a great change!
Also can't wait to see Nate in T-minus 3 days! Wooo! It's also supposed to be in the 70s-80s down here this week...yay! Sorry you New Englanders are all still getting snow! Ahhh!