Blizzard

So I was in Oklahoma last week. It was awesome. I'm still sure that its the best state in the union. I wasn't too terribly attacked by vines or barbed wire this time, so there really isn't anything too exciting to report. But we did get done early on Friday so I got to go down to Dallas for the night to visit Kylie.

We went out with her Anthro friends and then went to a party that one of the SMU undergrads was throwing. It was really fun. Especially when a couple of them were playing pokie in chairs and, because one of the chairs was really poorly put together, it collapsed and completely broke and the guy sitting on it fell on the floor. It was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen.

I left Dallas on Saturday afternoon to head up to northern Kansas. There was a 30% chance up rain up there according to The Weather Channel. About the time I got to Wichita it started to snow and sleet. Pretty soon even semis were going about 40 down the interstate. I then had to take a highway up through the middle of nowhere to get the rest of the way to Fort Riley. I got behind a snow plow and we were only going 20mph, but I figured at least there I knew I wouldn't die because the road was clear. Eventually I had to drive on my own and it was terrifying and made me want to cry, but I made it without crashing. What should have taken 1 hour took 3, but I made it, so I guess I can't be too upset. Except at the weather channel because had I known it was going to be a blizzard I would have left Dallas earlier. Grrr...

Then the next day we went out to work at Fort Riley. We got to hear artillery shots going off around us all day. It was weird. We were also working in a mud hole. At one point I was hoping not to lose my shoe as it kept getting stuck in the mud. And I almost fell multiple times, but managed to stay up. Then after we were done one of the guys I work with was trying to get his coveralls off. It was THE funniest thing I'd seen in awhile. He couldn't get them unzipped because there was too much mud. So of course his shoes were covered in mud as well. So he's jumping around trying to get his foot out of the leg of the pants. He finally gets it out and realizes that he's gotten mud all up the inside of the leg of the pants. (Which another girl had told him was going to happen.) So then he was all upset but still had to get his other leg out of the pants. So he's spinning around and flinging his leg around trying to get the pants over his other shoe and flinging mud everywhere. I'm sure you had to be there to appreciate it, but it was hilarious.

Today we got to go to a less muddy field and do shovel tests and a couple of test units. Then we got done early because we finished our work and there wasn't anything that we could start with the end of the session coming up. It was also Dawn's birthday so when we went out for dinner with the whole crew me and Naomi got a cake and some silly presents and brought them for her. Then we went to the bar at the hotel and played Apples to Apples. Lots of people came, so that was fun. I think tomorrow we're going back to Lawrence. Then Sunday I'm heading down to Florida. I don't know where yet, but somewhere down there. Woo!!