The Fall Break Breakdown

Good day, Bloggers. Welcome to my place of quiet mind dumping. But what shall I dump today? Well I think I can certainly find a few things since I have an entire fall break trip to Colorado to cover. So actually the question should be "Where to begin?" instead of "What do I write about?" because I can tap a plentiful resource that was the activities of the last four days. So let's begin with Wednesday evening in a bit of a different style than usual....

Wednesday, October the Fifteenth, Two Thousand Eight.

It was an early start. Not because I had classes. No, those could have potentially ruined plans that had been in the making for weeks. The classes did not exist for me today...well the one class I could have attended would not have ended until four o'clock in the afternoon, and was therefore avoided. Instead I spent the morning packing and getting things prepared for the trip while my girlfriend and traveling companion finished up exams that she had scheduled for the morning.

It began normaly. I woke up, showered, brushed my teeth and put on deoderant, along with clothes of course, and loaded my luggage in the car. I then proceeded to the library to print the directions to our destination, Evergreen, Colorado to Erin's Aunt and Uncles house for the few days of relaxation from school and the headaches it had seemed to heap upon us and those around us in full force that week.

It was in the library that the day changed. The lights on campus began to go out, leaving only half the lighting in many of the buildings running properly. Because of this surge and loss of power the student printer in the library stopped working. No matter to me. I just wrote the directions down since they were quite simple. I-44 east. Then merge onto I-35 north. After that it was I-135 north for a short distance until you switched to I-70 west. It was that road that would lead you to Denver and eventually Evergreen. Anyway, back to the events of the day.

I exited the library, informing a student who was about to enter the building that it was about to be closed to make sure that no wires were going to cause a fire on the third floor. I walked across what is called the center of campus, which contains the fountain and bricks witch carved names of alumni and anyone else who had donated a significant amount of money to the school, and entered into the Webster Commons to get breakfast for Erin and I from downstairs. It didn't take long and by the time I had grabbed it and left she had finished her exam and was gathering her things from her room so we could load it into the car. Before long the car was loaded with her clothes and we left campus...only to drive right back onto the campus so she could grab one last check from the business office for work she had been doing in the science labs.

Then we were off. A quick prayer from her as we drove and our Fall Break had officially begun. We spent the rest of the day driving (eleven long hours) and listening to various music and audio books to keep us entertained....or me entertained. She slept the majority of the way. But the day did end eventually. That night we met her aunt and uncle for dinner and headed to the house (which was beautiful and to much to describe for one blog post) and slept a long and deeply for the first time in weeks because we had no obligations the next day...or the next one...or even the next one. We were finally getting a break.

"I believe in the sun, even when it's not shining; I believe in love, even when I don't feel it; and I believe in God, even when He is silent."
-An Unknown Jewish Man (Written on a wall in a Concentration Camp)

Until next time...