Southern Diaries - 3/15-18

Wednesday, March 15, 2006:

My journey began on this afternoon when I finally got out of my last final. I was lucky enough to catch a ride with Danelle and Chris to Spokane. Chris goes there to buy cars every Thursday so he stays in a hotel on Wednesday night. On this particular occasion, Danelle went with him. Another lucky me because he had to get two hotel rooms. As you can see from the picture, we had a jolly old time while Chris was out saving the world one car at a time! And since the big butt-bumpers debute on Devan's blog, we had to rekindle the experience.





Thursday, March 16, 2006:

Arrival!

I had a fun experience at the airport in Nashville. Sorry Emily, you've already heard this one. I actually copied and pasted from your e-mail to save redundant typing.

So, I was waiting for Aaron to pick me up in Nashville when a really old lady came and sat beside me. She was holding a bunch of balloons and accompanied by a middle-aged woman. I was on the computer watching a movie so I didn't pay them much attention until she asked me to use their cell phone to take a picture of the two of them. Neither one could work it. Then we began talking. Both ladies had super thick southern accents (by the way, I just figured out over break why the SAU paper is called that, "Southern Accent". I know, blonde moment for Tori. I now think it's a very clever name).

So Aaron calls me and says he's about 20 minutes away and he has run out of gas. Luckily he pulled into a gas station. Not to worry you think? Well, in his rush to get out the door, he forgot his wallet. Now he's penniless. We weren't sure if he should try to make it on the fumes of gas he had or try his hand at begging.

I explained our dilema to the nice ladies and they offered me a ride to where Aaron was. How sweet is that? They didn't even know me at all except for a brief conversation and they were willing to give me a ride. This 88 year-old woman (it was her birthday, hence the balloons) was so bright and cheery! She really insired me...

The end to the run-out-of-gas story is that Aaron managed to find two willing souls to give him a total of $2.50 to buy a gallon of gas. So I didn't need the ride after all. But just the gesture of these woman being willing to give me a ride meant so much!

More on this wonderful lady named Nila. While we were talking she was stroking my hair like she had known me for years. It was totally not weird at all either. It was like she was my long lost great grandmother. The kicker though was when they got up to leave, she kissed me on the forehead and told me to write her. She said in her shaky, southern voice, "My name's Nila Morgan from Morgansville, Kentucky. Everyone in town knows who I am, so you just send the letter to Morgansville, Kentucky and I'll get it." It was too cute!

I definitly had an I-know-what-Emily-will-be-like-in-68-years moment. Maybe without the kissing though. It made my day!

Friday, March 17, 2006:

Soccer with the gals!

My old teammate, Heather, invited me to a scrimmage. It was so exciting to see Kandace (who was visiting from Southwestern) and Rachel (Tina's roommate this year).

Saturday, March 18, 2006:

Today Aaron, Rachel and Liz Randall, Christina H., Amber M. and I were on 3ABN while sitting in church. Funny stuff. Mark Finley spoke for SAU's Friday night vespers and church. What can I say, the camera loves me!