Foot, Food, Fun, Friends, and Goodbyes...

A smiley face made of post-it notes! You will see how this applys to the blog later in the reading.

Today was full, and i mean full, of things to talk about. So this may be a pretty long entry but today's story's are worth telling.

The first memorable event was not such a good one. I woke up super excited because today was the day i go to see Sam again, and Morgan got to see Ben again. Oh this would be a good day, i could feel it! I got up, stretched, and headed to the bathroom to take a shower and get ready for the morning activities. Right as i picked up the shampoo bottle to wash my hair, it slips from my grasp and hits the foot that i just recently began to walk on comfortably again. As soon as i picked up the bottle, a huge bump the size of an egg can be see on my poor foot. UGH!! seriously...this is not the day for this to be happening. I quickly finished my shower and hobble out of the bathroom into my room where Molly was sitting on the floor. She takes one look and gasps. Yes, it was that bad. Not a good way to begin the morning. For a while i sat on my bed with my foot elevates and ice on my little unfortunate foot. As i sat there and Morgan got ready, Molly was in the kitchen making pumpkin spice muffins, which were AMAZING!!!

Soon it is time to get ready to leave because we had a plan to stop in the mall at Starbucks for Molly and then head to La Rosa's to meet Sam, Ben, and Bailey for lunch. As i hobbled around trying to find something to fit over my swollen foot, Morgan gave me a pair of her shoes to wear. We locked the apartment and got to the car. Suddenly Molly informs us that she left her wallet in the apartment and needs to go get it. I hand her the keys that are attached to my Vera Bradly I.D. clutch thing, and she hurries away to retrieve her wallet. She sure took a long time to get it, but finally she comes out and gets into the car. Off we go to Starbucks.

We get to the mall, where Starbucks is, and while molly is ordering i call Sam to find out how far away he is. 10 minutes he says. We have time to stop inside of Forever 21 to look around for five minutes. Morgan and i both get a pair of sunglasses =) Soon we are off to La Rosa's, but not before Morgan accidentally tries to pull out of a one way turn the wrong way =0 oops!!! I'm sure she wasn't the only person to do it.

 Finally we arrive at La Rosa's and sit down with Bailey, not too long later Sam and Ben walk in and sit down. We order our delicious pizza and eat a great lunch, take pictures, and have funny conversation

.After we eat all our pizza, took final bathroom breaks, and split up our bill, we headed out the door for a group picture.

Our first attempt didn't work so well, but it still looks cool!!

After this one, we found another person who could take the picture for us better!

Don't we look so cute?? =) we all had a good time together!!

So after La Rosa's, we headed back to our apartment, the six of us. Boy were we in for a HUGE SURPRISE!!! Walking up the stairs i pull my keys out, unlock the door, and inside this is what we see.

Post-It notes. Everywhere. All over the apartment, in the refrigerator, on the silverware, on the walls, doors, windows, mirrors, shelves, you name it, there were there. On every post-it note was some silly picture or phrase or message or word or letter. Who could have done this?? Who could have gotten into our apartment while we were not there??? Two individuals...Ben and Sam. This is how it happen. Sam and Ben LIED to us about the time arrival that they would be getting her, and Molly was in on this the whole time. They were parked around the corner of the apartment while we were waiting on Molly to get her wallet. Molly did not go inside to get her wallet but to take the apartment key off my ID clutch and leave it inside for Ben and Sam. She ALSO left the apartment door unlocked for the two boys to get right in. So the whole time i had no clue my key was missing and all this suspicious activity from Molly was overlooked. While we were at the mall, Ben and Sam were putting post it notes EVERYWHERE in the apartment. They claim there will be some we wont even find until we move out. Hm we will see about that! Sam also played a game with the post it notes, he put letters on post it notes and set up clues for me to unscramble the letters. It spelled out VANILLA TWILIGHT, which is our song. That was super sweet. Ben made a heart for Morgan in her room and each post it note said "i love you" in a different language. So even though Ben and SAM pulled a prank on us under our noses, it was still a very cute thing to do =)

After the whole post it note fiasco, we sat in the apartment for a while watching Dan in Real Life which Ben and Morgan set up the internet. We got kind of bored, so we decided to head back into town and go to old navy. After walking around that store for a while, Molly told us goodbye because she was going to head back to Richmond. From Old Navy, we went to the mall because Sam wanted to go to the Lego Store and to the Apple store. We didnt stick around too long and from there we decided we would go back to the apartment and look up places to go and eat at. We chose a place called the "Grand Buffet." It was actually very nice and we had good chinese food. Sam and Bailey both ate this unfried squid which had the suctions still on it. Bailey also decided she liked to eat eel. and Sam and Ben ate frog legs. Yuck. Ben learned that frog legs were not crunchy but really had bones inside them =)

We left there and headed back to the apartment again. Bailey left to go home when we got back so now it was time for the four of us to find something to do, and we did. Because it was our last day seeing each other for a while, we decided to split up. Ben took Morgan to Hyde park to see the view of Cincinnati and to find tennis courts, but i don't think they had much luck.

While Morgan was with Ben, Sam and i decided to go to a cool place called Sawyer Point. It was kind of like a park, but huge. It was right beside the Ohio River and across the river you could see Newport Kentucky. The evening was beautiful, and even though my foot was killing me, i still had a wonderful time walking up and down the pathways at Sawyer Point with him. It got late, so we headed back. When we got back to the apartment again we sat for a while with Morgan and Ben who had gotten back a little bit before us. The forty minutes went by quicker than a blink of an eye and soon it was time to say good bye to them. It was super sad. It is really hard saying bye to someone who i haven't been away from for longer than a week in the whole year and nine months that I've been with him. I understand that it is something we both have to do in our lives and i know God will keep us strong in this relationship, just like he will keep Morgan and Ben strong. After the tears and the hugs and the goodbyes they walked out the door and to the car and drove away. It has been so hard for me to say good bye to friends, and it has been very hard to say goodbye to my father who means so much to me, but tonight was so very hard when the door closed as Ben and Sam walked away because they will be missed so much. They are both amazing, Godly men, and everyday i will be praying for a great college experience.

Well that is all for tonight. It has been a wonderful day, also a sad night, but a very memorable day/night as well.

Goodnight everyone =)

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