Halloween Dance

On saturday our school had a halloween dance. Mine and Rylie's costumes were pretty last minute so she dressed up like facebook (or bookface for those who watch the office) and I dressed up like a nerd. The dance turned out really fun though and there were a lot of really funny costumes. Our friend Melissa dressed up like a smurf and painted herself completely blue and our other friend Sarah dressed up with her boyfriend as Adam and Eve. Another couple went as Barack and Michelle Obama and Laura, a girl from the softball team wrote CEILING on her shirt and took pom poms and said she was a ceiling fan.

Me and Rylo :)

We finally got our picture with the President!!

* * * SVU * * *

So I realized that I haven't really put any pictures up of what virginia and my school look like so here is a picture overload. Sorry for all the pictures but since I kind of use my blog as a journal there's a lot of stuff I want to be able to look back on. And for those of you who I keep telling it looks like the twilight movies, hopefully you'll be able to understand a little bit haha.

Front of Main Hall

Back of the school

(I work in the building on the right)

Inside of Jonezzey's Cafe where I work

-Durham-

Most of the buildings here are really colonial looking obviously

-Durham Again-

Most of my classes are held here

This is a picture our church on the bottom and  the top is the Lofts where I live

This is downtown Buena Vista and this is pretty much it, there's really only two main roads. Notice the stoplights, lots of cities including Lexington have these. It's probably a good thing I'm not driving or I wouldn't even see them!

Virginia~ The tree's are beginning to look ssoooo pretty!

This is when it looks like the Twilight movies :)

A lot of people ask how I tell directions without mountains and the truth is I don't. Most of the time I have no sense of direction. The really isn't any huge mountains to look at its just constant hills.

P.S. Dani, I'm still killing you in our blogging war!! :)

~Just for Fun~

So a lot of people have been asking me what we do in Buena Vista for fun and the truth is, it's such a small town we kind of have to make stuff up. Sometimes are ideas are really good and sometimes they are well . . . pretty stupid haha. But one thing that everyone does here is jump off the footbridge so here's some random pictures from the footbridge and the shenandoah river. We also watch LOTS of movies (especially disney ones), hang out at Waffle House, play games in Walmart, and sing Karoake at Franks(the local resturaunt)!!

~Dirt in the Skirt~

So me and my friend Dani are now unofficially in a blogging war, so I thought I would make a post about our softball games. We played EMU and ended up losing both games. The first game we were ahead the whole game until the seventh inning and ended up losing by one so it was kind of sad. It was a lot of fun though, and I was excited because I had two doubles and I havent struck out in a college game yet :) (Knock on wood!!)

*Knights and Days at SVU*

~Homecoming~

A few weeks ago we had our homecoming game and dance. It was a ton of fun even though we lost our homecoming game the fight afterwards was pretty entertaining! And of course me and Rylie painted our faces like indians, it's kind of become our trademark. The theme for the dance afterwards was "Under the Big Top". It was super cute! They had a kissing booth, fortune telling booth, and a popcorn stand. We also had a powder puff game during homecoming which was a little unorganized but a lot of fun. It had been raining all day and it rained during the game so we were all pretty muddy. Here's a picture of us at the dance, hopefully I can get some more up soon!

 

Me, Laura, and Kenzy :)

Monticello

On wednesday our class took a trip to Monticello, which is the home of Thomas Jefferson. It was so gorgeous!! The house is set up on a hill and is surrounded by fields, flowerbeds, ponds, and trees. It was definately worth the trip and it was fun to see how such an important man in history lived his life. Hopefully pictures will be coming soon haha

Jericho Road

This weekend Jericho Road came to our school to do a concert and a forum. One of our couselors is actually in the band, his name is Justin and he's really cool! Their concert was actually a lot of fun. Friday night we also went to a concert by Elephant Shorcut which is a band of kids from our school! They are really amazing live and they actually have some of their songs up on itunes now so check them out!

~DC United Game~

On Saturday Rylie and I along with some other kids from our school went to the DC United vs. Sporting Kansas soccer game at RFK stadium. It was so much fun! We got to see the White House and the Washington Monument along the way. We also crossed the Potomac River on our way which was one of my favorite sites so far!! It was SO pretty!! The game was crazy, I'm pretty sure the majority of people were drinking but it was fun to get out of Buena Vista for awhile. Even though DC United ended up losing 1-0 we all had a blast!!

~Bomb Threat~

So for those of you who havent heard, our campus did receive a bomb threat and so we were all evacuated at one in the morning!! First we were put on lock down and told there was a bomb threat so we were not allowed to leave our rooms. Then a little while later there was a banging on all of our doors and we walked out into a mass of SWAT officers with mask and everything. Just a little bit scary! We were evacuated to a nearby church while they searched all the campus building with dogs. Finally at 3:30 in the morning we were let back into our dorms, and the best part is, they still had classes the next day! Luckily my professors were really cool and my 8 and 9 oclock classes were canceled!

Washington DC Temple!!! :)

Today SVU had a school temple day; they took all the students who wanted to go to the temple in Washington DC. We did baptisms for the dead and explored the visitors center as well as helping out with some grounds work. It was a ton of fun and the temple is SO pretty!! Rylie and I also had a ton of fun on the ride there and back and taking random pictures!!

Me and Rylie :)

This pretty much sums up our relationship!

~Raising the Bar~

Our neighbors Sarah and Katie, Me, and my roomate Rylie

DC Temple Visitors Center

-Hitch hiking to go see Obama-

Laughter is the best medicine :)

This is a replication of Buena Vista, literally!

Softball Tournament ~ Tennessee :)

So two weeks ago our softball team got to go watch a division I softball tournament where Tennessee was playing!! I was so excited!! It was an awesome day, I sat at the ballpark with a hamburger and a dr. pepper and afterwards we went to Dick's and Olive Garden :)

Tennesse Celebration!!

~Ivy Pitching~

Virginia Tech huddle

P.S. This picture is just to show you guys where our new softball field is being built. It's right by the soccer field and its absolutely gorgeous!! As you can kind of see its surrounded by trees!!

Here's a picture of our actual field being built right now :)

Softball Practice . . . and the bats :)

So crazy story . . Lately we've been having occasionall night practices so we practice till like 10pm. Well on thursday we are out taking grounders and all the sudden something thuds to the ground. At first I thought it was a bird that had died and fallen from the sky haha. But then our assistant coach got closer and realized it was two bats!! Creepy!! But no worries our coach had an empty bucket handy, so she just turned it upside down on them and told us to keep going!! Umm excuse me those are like the most disease ridden animals ever, if you get bit by one your sure to get rabies haha. Pretty soon though they started flying around in the bucket so they knocked it over and they flew away accompanied by screams from all the girls!! It was obviously a good day at  practice :)