Proof of my adventurous crazy side...

For personal reasons, I am not going to use any names in this tale...O and it's not proof read, so bear with woteva!!! :)
So I just got back to my dorm at about 5.30pm today, after a very random and funny 32 hours. To put it simply, I went on an unplanned, unexpected and totally ridiculous road trip.
K I'll skip the first part and start with Saturday morning. I got a call from one of my friends, saying I should get dressed so we could go to the mall. This was around 10.30am, after I had gone to bed at 6am. I was pretty tired, but I had promised to go along with her so I got off my bed, got dressed and got into the car. There was another girl there, making three of us, and we set off originally to go to the mall, and ended up five hours away from Carbondale, in a town called Peoria!!!!!

Okay when we got to the mall and got done shopping, we decided to go get something to eat. Of course we wanted something different, and thought about Red Lobster, but the closest one was in Marion, which is 30mins away from Carbondale. So we were off to Marion. To tell the difference between the girls, I'll use OF, as in Old Friend, and NF, as in new friend. Should be pretty easy to understand right? Anyway, my OF say the "Stake and Shake" sign and decided she wanted lunch there. So we were off to Stake and Shake, Red lobster was quickly forgotten.

While we were having lunch, NF, and the driver as it turned out to be, suggested that we go to Padukah, (An hour north of Marion), and go window shopping or something at the mall there. (Pls note that nothing happened with regards to this thought, but we always tell it as part of the story so....lol). Anyway, somewhere along the line, she changed her mind and said lets go to D'Quater (Sorry, I don't know how to spell it so thats how it's pronounced)....anyway, we decided that that was a better option (Did I mention that this was 3.5hrs South of our present location?) because some of NF and OF's friends were going over there to have Indian food for dinner. So we got done with lunch, hopped into the car and we were off to D'Quater.

No pls note that we acc did not know where exactly this place was, but we had a general idea u know and of course an atlas. On the way, OF announced that this sort of feels lyk a road trip, and then NF said "Well that would only work if we spend the night else where." Then she added "We could spend the night in Peoria." and looked at me. Yes, yours truly was so ready to back up that idea, and I definitely responded with a "Hell Ya!" to that bright idea.... OF called her sis and told her about the plan, then asked if we could sleep over. She said yes, and we told her we would be there at 10pm, and the journey continued.

We hung out with their friends as planned at D'Quater, had Indian food, also as planned, and then decided that it was time to head off to Peoria, when we suddenly realized that Oh, we did not have a place to crash at! The plan was to get to OF's sister's place before 10, but unfortunately that plan fell through and we were homeless. Yes these three college kids figured out that they had no place to stay at 12am in the morning! Genius, I know! We decided we'll head off there anyway, worst comes to worst, we'll crash at a motel or something. Then OF remembered she had a friend who stayed in Treemounth, or some place with a name lyk that, which was close to Peoria, and that we could crash there. So we called her friend, got an ok from her, and were off to her house.

Of course we had to make a quick stop at Wallmart to get somethings as we were to arrive at this house with only ourselves and our wallets! Sweet! We crashed in OF's friends house, without seeing the owners of the house! Got in at 2am and the out at 8am. We went off to NF's house and literarilly snuck in while everyone was out, because she was not meant to be there, and then got out before anyone came in. Almost like a B&E, just we had the keys to the front door, and a member of the family with us. lol.

We made OF call this guy who had a thing for her, and ask him to meet us for breakfast, so we had breakfast in Peoria first. Though he never showed up and got deeper in our bad books for sure. Nyhu, after our B&E, we went off to Pecan to get OF's full length mirror from the place she stayed at, and helped the lady there move some stuff. finally, we bagan our trip back to Carbondale at 12pm, and arrived at 5pm - This story would not be complete if I forget to mention the fact that we had to drive through a storm and almost got into a car wreck when NF tried to over take a truck and the car began to slide from side to side, rather that move forward. But of course, God willing, we got out of that one...

So the difference between this and my trip to St Louis last semester was the fact that the trip to St Louis was planned (though the events that occurred on the trip such as getting lost, getting lost some more, returning to town at 2am and not getting to see any of the things we went to St Louis to see but still having fun anyways), but this trip to wot turned out to be 5 different towns, was not....

So here I am back in my room at last, after my trip to the mall. This was a very random thing to do, but definitely awesome and a thing for the books! Me, being a 'safe' dare-devil, if such a term exists, was super stoaked the entire time we were on the trip and about it!!!! My grand kids are gonna have a ball with this one. "During my first summer skol in college, I took a trip to the mall, had lunch in a town 30mins away, dinner in one 3.5hrs away, and then breakfast in one 5hrs away with nothing but my self, friends, and goodies from a short trip to Wallmart!!!

Good times!!!

Jaa-Nee!!!