festive weekend

This was a fantastic weekend!

It was full of:

the first snow of the year

hot chocolate 

watching Elf three times

putting up Christmas decorations
iHop at 3am
snowball fights
chasing geese

Glee and Taylor Swift Christmas music

baking cookies
playing sardines in KOBC at 2am

basically, great friends!!

luminaries

Every year Elon holds a Celebration of Light. 

It is known to the students as the Elon Luminaries and is definitely one of the best nights of the school year!

Luminaries is filled with friends, hot chocolate, hot cider, carolers, Santa Claus, community and of course beautiful lights and decorations!

Basically, Elon is perfect.

Beautiful Alamance!

Two year tradition!

dta

Coming from Maryland, we know crabs. 

We know crabs well.

Good ol' Maryland Soft Shell Blue Crabs.

Since I have been home from school [4 days], I have consumed 4 meals with crab in it.

Can you tell I have missed it?

town Christmas tree!

Annapolis has GREAT stores to shop in!

 and a dock to sit on while chatting with friends!

Isn't it amazing?

Wow, I miss this so much when I'm at school.

hiking

Yesterday Caleb and I went looking for a place to hike. We found this little nature area near Elon called Shallow Ford. It had a few short trails but it was still fun to walk through all the beautiful fall foliage. There was a little river that ran through the woods and some fun trees and rocks to climb!

Unfortunately, my good camera is broken so these were taken with my little Sony Cybershot pocket camera [definitely not as good of pictures as they could have been, but oh well].

It was such a fun day!

waste, but great

I [waste] my time ALL the time.

It is probably definitely not the best thing for me to do, 

but it happens. a. lot. 

best time waster = StumbleUpon

If you have never heard of StumbleUpon,
you are really missing out. 

I.T.   I.S.   A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.   

But don't worry. I am solving all of your life problems
[or adding to them by giving you a time waster]
right now by introducing it to you. 

Go. Click on the link above. Enjoy.

Seriously, I will sit on this website for hours upon hours and get absolutely nothing accomplished. 

Butttttt I find so many cool websites [that waste more of my time] because of it.

Examples incase you need a little more convincing:

Can't find your phone? Click here!

What if Abe Lincoln had a facebook? Click here!

Cookie Dough Truffles? Click here!

Wanna play an addicting game? Click here!

Go. Try for yourself!

elephants

Lately, I have been obsessed with elephants. 

Yes, you heard [saw] correctly.

ELEPHANTS

Not completely sure where this recent 

obsession

love

absorption

fascination

fixation

attraction

enthrallment 

has come from, but its here.

And I am fully embracing it.

 haha

I have come to realize what I want to be a Mahout now/when I grow up. If you don't know what  a Mahout is all you need to know is that they live in India and play with elephants all day. 

Seriously, what could be more fun than that?

crafty night

Saturday night, my roommates and I had planned on going line dancing at Arizona Petes in Greensboro. We were planning on leaving at 9 and it was about 8:45 when changed our minds. We were then trying to figure out what we would do instead and then we remembered, "BLAIR HAS PAINTING SUPPLIES!"

We [literally] ran out of the door to get to Michael's craft store before it closed at 9. Blair had the paint, but we needed to get canvases to do the painting on.

So we sped to Michael's and got our canvases as they were 

trying to rush us out of the store because 

we walked in the door at about 8:57.

[I bet they hate those type of people]

We got back and the painting began!

Mama Shark and Baby Shark!

 The whole group!

 Parker!

 Cam!

Madelyn!

 Lizzy!

 My finished product!