My Weekend On the Other Side of the State

As I believe all you regular readers know, I live very far away from my very good friends. This weekend (mostly Sunday), however, I was able to see several of them. This was because a girl who I hadn't actually met yet, Starski, decided she wanted to see as much of her friends as she could before moving up further north. I counted as one of those friends because she really wanted to meet me. :) (Yay mutual friends! :D ) So after a good amount of organizing and feeling like I wouldn't actually be able to be a part of it, my parents decided that they were okay with taking the time and gas to drive over there, even though it meant I wouldn't be able to go to a girl's Bible camp that was taking place the week before the Sunday in question. Still, I'm sooo grateful they allowed me to go. :)
On Saturday afternoon, the third of August, we (Dad, Dysprosium, Vanadium, and I) drove over to my friend's Jj's house, because he so kindly twisted his parents' arms to let us stay. ;) Actually, I'm pretty sure he didn't force them to keep us. :) Anyway, we arrived at his house at 7ish in the evening, and we were fed. ^_^ Theeen I'm pretty sure I spent the rest of the night conversing with Jj. Vanadium joined in as well, and Dysprosium... sat in. :) In any case, it was very enjoyable.
I awoke at 6ish the next morning... I usually have trouble staying awake at 7, so I was surprised to find that I didn't even feel tired at 6, especially since I didn't get to sleep until 1ish. Weird how other people being awake affects me. In any case, Jj had asked that I wake him up at 6, and I thought that'd be no problem seeing as I was planning to wake up at 6 anyway. But when I woke up he was already awake and talking to Dysprosium and Vanadium... whaaatever. Sooo for breakfast Jj made me tea and I had a breakfast cookie that my Mom had made previously and had us bring for sharing. :) We then left for the church that we had planned to meet at, which was, in fact, about half an hour from Jj's house. On the way, I read two chapters from a book (Deltora Quest, if you're interested) to Jj, and I suppose everyone else that was in the car, too. :) Then we sat outside of a Burger King because Jj's Mum wanted to get a drink and the drive thru (through!) was extremely slow. I don't know whether to add "that day" or not... I think I'll just assume it's not usually that slow, so, the drive thru was extremely slow that day. However, we still got to the church building in time for class and service, so yay. :)
Afterwards, we (Starski, Holly, Mitchell, Jj, Yuri, Andrew, Taylor, Krissi, to name a few, or perhaps the majority) went over to Uncle Kenny's house, which just so happens to be located right beside the church. (Like really, the church parking lot could almost pass as a parking lot for Uncle Kenny's house. Also, by the way, Uncle Kenny isn't biologically my Uncle... I just call him that. :) ) I had only brought some homemade potato salad to contribute to food, but almost none of the teens ate it (I guess because they thought it was cottage cheese... but I took the lid off and told at least a few people what it was), so I gave it to the adults, who thoroughly enjoyed it. So that's happy. :D Especially since I worked raaather hard on it. (My Aunt makes the best potato salad ever, (or at least, the best I've ever had, and I've had a few) and I felt like I needed to make mine up to par, especially since I was using her recipe.) Then, since everyone had gone off to watch Starski play Slender and I wasn't much interested, I played a bit of Portal on Jj's laptop until I felt like I was shunning people and watched Starski play Slender, which was actually rather amusing. :D Aaand I got to hug her at a time when I felt she needed it, so that's good. :)
I managed to stall our (mine and my travelling companions') departure until 4 in the evening, and even more accomplishy of me, I got us home in four hours rather than the expected five. I guess I can't get all the glory, though, especially since that would imply that I sped a lot, which I didn't do... a lot. The interstate was really rather clear. :) Though when we first entered the interstate, it was quite obvious that the interstate was not clear the other way. I was glad I was heading west rather than east.
So that was my weekend. 'Twas fabulous. This extrovert is happy. ^_^