wow, snow flakes on my screen and so easy to shovel!!! (if it was only that easy)
and they were on me this morning while running in that turkey trot too... sooo cold 8*
but it was fun, aside from running soooo slow w/ my brother. and i saw a few ppl from high school too ;)
then back here to do the dinner thing w/ the fam
AND THEN....
while trying to track down my luggage in detroit or buffalo all last night and again all day today w/ absolutly no luck, i recieved a phone cal... from the miami airport!!! it was there, my bag... w/ my name on it... and tags to miami w/ a different airline and from over a week ago. it had been sitting there since i left yesterday. then some woman started searching through it... found some phone numbers in one of my notebooks and called some ppl in my classes... they gave her my cell number... and now its hopefully on its way here!!! now if everything goes well, I'll have my books, clothes, and stuff by 10:30 tonight!!!!

so what happened was i forgot to take my old tag off(but i never take em off) and so when the guy was putting the new tag on, instead of taking the old one off, he removed the buffalo one he just put on... so it is my fault :( i feel so stupid, and i even went to get some new underwear today since i had none.
but i learned my lesson... always take off old tags, anddont check unless absolutly necessary!!!

well hope everyone's having a great thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!

so i just got back, im lying on my bed typing, its cold out, definitly buffalo... but what's missing??? MY LUGGAGE!!!!!!! they lost it :( i have no clothes :( no books:( no tooth brush:( or even brush for that matter:( and so much more stuff that i had in my suitcase :( but its somewhere either still in Detriot (where i had my connecting flight) or maybe on its way to buffalo on a later flight, or with my luck, in some other city:(
i have nothing to wear or books to study!!! i don't know what to do :( what should i do??? and i was planning on going out tonight, eeek... i might be borrowing a bra from my mom, how bad is that:( maybe i shouldn't admit that, oh well, i did. and i guess i have other clothes to wear, but what about the turkey trot tomorrow morning.. all my dry fit warm clothes are in that suitcase :( how did they lose it on me??? so not nice... ok, that's it... i should prolly get off the phone line so if they call saying they found it i can go get it ;) HOPEFULLY!!!!!!!!!!!

so i posted a little thing a few days ago about my rowing trip to VA, but now i have some pictures !!!! so i figured i'd post a few of them too ;)

So this pic is from our saturday night search for dinner turned into moving cars so we could get our bus out of the stupid lot...



then this is what we experienced sunday morning showing up to our cold boats



our poor fin was even covered in frost :(



and of course... us rowing by (I'm in the white hat)



And there we go...

We had our last race of the season yesterday :( it was in VA, it was cold, but we definitely had fun ;)
so we left here at 5 on saturday, took off at 7, got to DC around 9 ish, long drive through DC VA traffic, arrived at the race course (charlottsville, UVA) around 3. it was cold!!! all we wear to row are these little spandex outfits... cold!!! so we rigged our boats and rowed for a little bit then time to head to the hotel... but our bus driver got us lost :( once we got there, quick shower then back in the bus to go to dinner. we got lost going to dinner:( crazy lost, over and over again... she was a really bad driver. then she got us stuck in a parking lot... this was actually best part of the weekend... she would creep up and back over and over again getting nowhere, almost hitting these cars over and over again for like 35 minutes and we were starving. our coach wasnt with us so she left myself and anna in charge. so anna's outside the bus trying to help her get around the cars, I'm inside trying not to let 15 girls charge out of the bus to go walk somewhere in the cold and get lost. then finally we just had onel ittle car in the way, just one... a little toyota camry. so i was like, ok guys lets go move it... and they actually followed me out of the bus, and everyone ran right for the car, got hands on and before i knew it, we were moving this car. first up to the curb, 2 men approached us, i thought we we gonna be in trouble, they were asking if we needed help... so then we got it up on the curb... the bus pulled out, we put it back... generally where we got it from, off the curb at least and we were off. again drove another 20 minutes, finally found a little shoppinhg center with a few little take out places... we grabbed something to eat (i got a sub) then a little shoppign around the plaza... we needed to be out for a bit after the little bus fiasco... then back to the bus, and what do you know, our hotel was 2 minutes away.... stupid driver
then the racing on sunday was good, we raced a bunch of "good schools" so good competition and stuff... but froze, it was soo cold. then loaded up the trailer, and back on the bus, from their to the plane then back here in miami by 10:45... SLEEP
unfortunatly, i was suppossed to write a paper all weekend, actually all semester... its due tomorrow at 3... but i just started it about 2 hours ago :( woops, i gotta get back to that now... but that was my moving a car story...

ok, so i have a funny story from this morning... but i suck at telling stories so it might just come out stupid, but here goes...
so i was at practice (rowing)
we were on the dock, getting our oars so we could launch
however, our oars were stuck under one of the oars of the other boat
so i thought i'd be nice and help them push off the dock.
so i started pushing tash's blade
but she wasn't pushing back so the boat wasnt moving, just her oar was
so i told her to push away (like gradually, ya know)
but she slammed her oar into the oarlock (pushing it all the way out)
however, i was right there
and her blade nailed me in the gut
it pushed me back about a foot on the dock
unfortunately i only had about 6" left of dock behind my left foot
so my left foot went in
as did my entire left leg
but my right leg was left up on the dock
with me in a very uncomfortable split
so i pulled my right leg in with me to get out of that position
so by this point I'm totally submerged in the water
but before i can lift myself out
2 girls from my boat grab my 2 arms
and drag me out of the water
then someone grabed a leg
and swung me around on the dock
i ended up sprawled on top of our oars
soaking wet
w/ a big bruise on my left inner shin
and w/ the most painful bruise in my crotch
so sorethe entire practice
and now i can't even sit properly w/o any pain "down there"
hehehehehe, so how did ya like my story???

that's it ;)