Stranded In Athens

I've been homeless for the past seven days! On Saturday I packed up all my suitcases, hit the road and never looked back...until I had to look back when I came back to Athens and go to class on Monday! Too bad The Summit doesn't care when its tenants have final exams!

Fortunately, I had the opportunity to spend some QT with Daddy and Laura. I got over to their house Saturday afternoon and they showed me around their gardens! Laura's garden is completely organic and absolutely amazing! She has some huge tomatoes and cucumbers which she was about to make into pickles before I had to leave them on Monday morning!

Daddy's garden is not organic but he did show me how he gets rid of all his weeds with the tractor!

After gardening for a while, they took me out for a fabulous dinner at California Pizza Kitchen! Even though they eat there about 3 times a week or more, I always secretly hope they'll want to go just one more time and take me with them! Everything there is delicious and it's always hard to decide what to order, but finally I settled on a salad.

Sunday came too quickly! We decided to skip church and go for a leisurely hike at Vickery Mills. It was really beautiful and the shade made it a little cooler. We went to downtown Roswell for some Mexican food and a little window shopping. I'm a huge movie buff and later that day they took me to see Public Enemy (I'm in love with Johnny Depp now) which was really really good (I might go see it again this weekend with Lance and Sonny)! I sure do get my love of popcorn honest! All through the movie Daddy and I kept bumping hands as we were trying to get more popcorn and he kept saying, "I sure do love popcorn! Do you love popcorn?" haha!

I'm so lucky to still have friends living in Athens because after I left Daddy's house on Monday, I did not want to drive an hour and a half twice a day all week! My friends Anna, Meg, and Lauren actually live in the same apartment complex I just moved out of! Anna was at the beach with her parents until Wednesday, so Meg let me bunk with her for Monday and Tuesday night! We had tons of fun staying up late and giggling about old times! I sure am glad my finals wouldn't determine if I passed my classes or not because we didn't get much serious work done while I was staying with her! Even though Anna wasn't home we still had me, Meg, her dog Millie (a pug), Lauren, her dog Bentley (a lab), and Lauren's boyfriend Chance who's also homeless at the moment. It was slightly crowded but tons of fun! We tried to relieve some stress on Tuesday night be getting margaritas at Mexicali's.

On Wednesday, my Mom came to stay with me. We got a hotel room for Wednesday and Thursday night. There are so many places up in Athens that I've still never been to before. One place is a restaurant called The Grit and tons of people have told me how amazing it is! I can't believe I've never been there before because they serve all vegetarian dishes! I got a sandwich with chick pea fritters, carrots, cucumbers, and cabbage. Mom tried three of their vegetable side dishes and it was amazing! Lance is totally jealous he didn't get to eat there with us!

Tonight she took me to eat at Last Resort. It was kind of for sentamental reason because when Mom and I came up here to look for my first apartment, we met up with my first roommate, Alisabeth, and her Mom at Last Resort! Mom's heading out first thing in the morning and I have to hang around and study until my Spanish final starts at 3:30. I would probably be more worried except I only have to make a 20 on the test to make a B in the class! Mom's afraid because I'm not studying but I informed her that I only asked God to help me make a C in the class and that I shouldn't get stingy and ask for a B! haha! Goodbye UGA! Goodbye Athens! Hopefully I'll be able to come visit often!

I guess being homeless isn't so bad if it means you get to spend time with people you love!