So I decided it was pretty bad form letting my 2 regular readers down by not writing enough posts. I mean both Mom and my sister have told me that I need to do posts more regularly. So I thought I would give a little update about the alumni meet.
I went to to california to do my alumni meet at the beginning of Feb. It was super fun. I was debating about not going this year, but I am glad I decided to go instead. It was also nice because I shared a hotel room with Kristen one night and Kristina the next night, so I was able to spend a lot of one on one time with both of them. I like my track friends.
Anyways so the meet went well. I didn't throw that amazing... but it has been 6 years and in college I wasn't ever a super star. But I did get my friend to film me on the one good throw I had. My coach said that it was about as good of form as I had in college. So that was nice to hear.
As you may have noticed I had short hair in that video. Yes it is true, I cut of 10+ inches and my hair is currently on my fridge in a plastic bag ready to donate to locks of love. I'll get around to it eventually.
Anyways, I'm glad I went down to Claremont for the alumni meet - even though it was kinda chilly. Here is a list of a few of the things I miss from college:
1. The Motley - it really is great to have a place to hang out, talk with friend, have a good drink, and stufy if you'd like to.
2. The dining halls - The dining halls on campus, esp on Scripps, really wasn't too bad. And I def like having food prepared for me everyday right when I want it when I'm done with work. I mean I do like to cook, but sometimes when you're just home and starving cooking food just isn't what you wanna do.
3. Living next door to all my friends. I like living by myself and having my own space, but having the oppportunity to be within a couple mins walking distance from all your friends is quite desirable.
4. Having a workout prepared for you everyday. I love being outside, and though I have a hard time doing my own work outs, I do love to lift weights. And track work outs really were pretty great.
5. The absurd amount of spoiling Scripps does - I walked through the new field house - HOLY CRAP! it is like a resort. I don't know how you wouldn't work out if you lived at Scripps now.
Well that's enough nostalgia for now - there is plenty of other things about Claremont and college that I like, which is why I get so excited when I meet someone who went to Pomona, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Claremont Mckenna, or Scripps. And luckily I have a chance to meet up with some 5C'ers every year. Here is a shout out to the alum and current CMS hammer throwers.
So on Saturday I went down to Galveston for a Mardi Gras parade. It was the first time I had been to a mardi gras celebration. My friend that I went with went to New Orleans last year for celebration, he said that there was more kids in Galveston than in New Orleans... a little bit of a different clientele. This is a picture of me with my beads I caught off at the Parade (I didn't get a picture of me at the parade). My friend said that I was popular. Basically whenever I would put my arms up and cheer then I would get beads thrown at me... I responded, "Well I'm hot, what can I say?" Gotta love the arrogant self sometimes ;). I was impressed with the floats. They were quite ornate. I wonder if they would have been even 
more ornate if there hadn't been a hurricane a few months ago. The part of Galveston that I drove through looked back to normal, but my friend said he saw some boats in parking lots while we were driving, and we didn't go off the touristy areas much... and it def hasn't gotten its business level back up. There is even talk of closing the hospital down there. Anyways, back to mardi gras. So an example of the floats is seen here. Some had different themes - this one was a pirate obviously. Others included, 'under the sea' and '007'. In the parade there were also a lot of good marching bands (I've decided that being in a marching band would be very difficult). And lots of good dancers and baton spinners and flag twirlers. I enjoyed it.. even though it was a chilly mid50s temperature with a wind.. thank goodness for coats! Yes, before you say it, I admit I've acclimated and am currently a temperature wimp! Anyways, Happy Fat Tuesday!
