some real adventures

So it's been a while and i apologize.  To start, let me tell you about some of my ACTUAL adventures.  In the past month I have had many fun moments, some in the Midwest and some in the west.  But the most interesting adventure was at the Sioux City ice skating center for a curling tournament.  

Now, you all remember the curling teams in the last winter Olympics? Personally, I was a big fan of the Norwegian Olympic curling team and was absolutely in love with their attire (https://www.facebook.com/NOCTP).  They even started a facebook group (as seen at left) and i am a follower!  Now the sport itself is quite bizarre and reminds me of shuffle board on ice (and crack).  You have to try and get a "stone" in the middle of the circle across the ice and there are sweepers that heat up the ice to make it go faster or change directions. I realize, my description of this event is really not going to help you get the picture but I am attempting!

Lucky for me, i was too busy to be a player but instead got to stand on the ice and cheer on the team for their last game.  Britton's family were the key players while Janet (his mom) and I took pics and slid around on the ice.  The best part of the whole event was definitely the the team uniforms.  The competition seemed to have a "through the decades" theme so there were groups in mullet wigs, our team had on some stellar 80's styles and one whole team dressed up as the opposite sex!  All in all it was a fun time and after watching this year, i hope to be more involved next year, maybe as a sweeper?

The same weekend was also Dance Marathon at USD.  For those of you that read this and don't know about DM, its a 24 hour fundraiser for Children's Miracle Network.  This year USD broke records and raised over $50,000 and brought over 200 students to the marathon.  As a coadvisor of the group we were all proud to see what the students accomplished and none of us can wait to see what they do next year!  

The following weekend I had the great pleasure to join my big sister from Delta Zeta in Vegas for some bachelorette party action!  We spent 3 nights in the Venetian, gambling, eating good food and being lazy at the pool!  Being the planner that I am (NOT!) I forgot to charge my camera before leaving so it was dead before I event left Omaha. I h ope to make up for that at the wedding next month in good 'ole Alabama!

And this past weekend I had the privilege to start the weekend off with my first ever experience of USD's Stroller's event.  The event is a variety show where 5 teams compete.  4 teams consist of fraternity/sorority pairings and the last team is called the GDI's (gosh darn independents).  In between the teams musical dance skits a group called the Strollers perform jokes and skits.  I have heard of the obscene jokes this group has done in the past but 2011 Strollers seemed pretty tame to me.  only a few jokes had me questioning their sanity.  The performances were also quite entertaining, including made up lyrics to shows and interesting plot lines.  I was glad to have the chance to watch the show and engage in some USD history.  The strollers show started in 1923 and this year marked the 88th show.

This Friday I am lucky to have my momma coming to visit!  I can't wait for her to get here to spend the Easter holiday in Vermtown.  Hopefully we will have some adventures of our own that will be blog worthy!