Its ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!

i apologize for not having blogged in forever and ever.

goodness graciousness!

so where to begin?

Pre- Halloween:

so me and craig really make an effort to not be "that couple" that is together all the time, and to have individual friends and interests and such... but anyways. it seems to have worked out that our best friend here at school is probably Bob Dean.

this is the part where i would do a little writing about bob dean, but there is really nothing to say except he is one of those people you really just have to meet. so i'll leave it at that.

well the day before halloween we were all rather excited. bob was excited because his girlfriend of two and a half years Audrey, who goes to UMD, was coming to visit for hallowgreens. Craig and I were excited because Bob was excited, and because we are both easily excitable. The rest of the campus was excited because Hallowgreens was just around the corner.

NOTE: Hallowgreens is the biggest party of the entire year at SMCM (which is really not saying very much at all) BUT nevertheless we were all very excited.

so i had one class in the morning. from 8-9

then i had the rest of the day free. but not really. because craig had a concert. so i had to go of course.

i spent like two hours working on my costume for the next night... (lara croft: Tombraider)

and then i walked downstairs to go see craig play with the orchestra.

the concert was exciting for the following reasons:

1. i sat with Euri Jorge.

let me explain

Laura: Euri! Hey man come sit by me!!

Euri: Oh hay laura! did you know craig is in the orchestra?!

laura: yea...yea euri thats why im here.

Euri: oh. wow. do you think people will sing?! i really hope people sing!

laura: euri its an orchestra concert

Euri: does craig sing?

laura: no... no one sings euri. thats a choir. people sing in choir.

Euri: oh i always get those confused.

2. everyone in the orchestra was dressed in costume. including the conductor...who euri kept calling the "instructor". i'm not making this up.

3. the entire orchestra performance room is about the size of our band room back in high school. this gives everything a more intimate atmosphere and also allows me to make weird faces at craig while hes playing. Im pretty sure this enhances his performing skills.

4. Ross, craigs older brother the music major, was for some unknown reason (probably just because he felt like it) playing percussion.. but not just any percussion...he was playing triangle? awesome ross. really. i wanted to ask how hard he had to practice for that part, but i didnt get a chance.

5. clapclap clap clap

euri: oh look craig is standing up! is he going to play now?

laura: no he just did play... the french horns had a solo

euri: oh... like already they played?

SO anyways. then craigs friend Chris arrived as a sort of last minute hallowgreens guest. Chris is a family friend who is very nice, but kind of high maintenance in that you have to keep him constantly entertained or he will start complaining about how bored he is. then Audrey got here and there was hugs all around and bob was very excited!!

Audrey is a mix of a four year old and a ballerina. she is very delicate looking and likes bouncing around and getting piggy backs and eating trix cereal. we loved her! she is apparently a finance major.

Then we went to go find something to do before chris died of boredom. so we set off to the Ross' house in hopes of entertainment (because that is what big brothers are good for.) Unfortunately we had to wait like ten minutes because Ross was at a pub with some of his own hallowgreens guests. ("the campus nearly doubles in size for hallow greens." this is apparently a statistic that craig read somewhere and probably repeated about one hundred times this weekend)

so we went to the daily grind to go get some apple cider before chris exploded out of boredom.

on our way the grind some fake zombies came up and drooled blood on Bob's jacket. This upset bob because he really did not want fake blood drooled on his jacket. This upset craig because craig is scared of a zombie attack.

anyways so finally ross came home and we borrowed Tropic Thunder and made a movie night out of it.

it was pretty violent. i really didnt like the movie very much at all. but the people were all awesome so it was still fun.

HALLOWGREENS

the next day bob took audrey for a tour. and me and craig worked on his politics paper. craig is not very good at getting work done, but he is EXTREMELY good at getting distracted.

so after i plowed him through half of his paper and then we went back to his room and got changed into our halloween costumes.

craig was supposed to be Indiana Jones and i was supposed to be Lara Croft.

Laura:craig how do i look?

craig: good

laura: do i look like lara croft?

craig: eh... should i bring this leather jacket or leave it here?

laura: well its kind of warm out... maybe you should leave it.

we went to go meet bob and audrey for dinner. they are very cute in that bob is kind of like a mom. when craig and i met audrey and bob to go to dinner this was our conversation:

Audrey: OH LAURA YOU LOOK AMAZING...craig you look good too.

Bob: Oh Auds you didnt finish your cookies i packed for you

craig: thanks.

Laura: you packed her snacks?

Audrey: well see we went on a tour. bob gave me a tour of your campus. its beautiful. breathtaking really.

laura: you packed her snacks?

Audrey: i couldnt finish them because you made me take a nap bob.

bob: oh well lets put on your rainboots before we go to dinner, its wet out.

audrey: next time i want to sleep on the inside of the bed.

bob: well we'll have to see about that Auds. go put your rain jacket on.

Craig was getting rather strung out because people kept not recognizing who he was. plus he is used to having epic halloween costumes because his mom used to personally make them for him and his brother every year.

but anyways, people kept immediately recognizing who i was. and craig kept getting

"umm... are you..... ummm maybe like.. OH IVE GOT IT. your a crocidile dundee!! no? well maybe... oh. indiana jones you say? i might have recognized you if you had a leather jacket"

by the time we got to dinner this is what happened

card scanner lady: hello... you must be lara croft.

craig: who am i?

lady: i really dont know hun, dont ask me.. please i dont watch tv really.

craig: im not going to eat until you guess

lady: oh hunny dont say that... i really.. um i just dont know...

guy serving potatoes: THAT LARA CROFT IS THE BEST COSTUME IVE SEEN ALL DAY

craig: don't even talk to me laura. dont even say anything.

bob: craig you kind of look like a park ranger...

Then after dinner...BRYAN GALE AND PAGE GOT HERE. Bryan is craigs best friend from high school and paige is his new girlfriend. they are rather adorable. Bryan is awesome. hes from ireland and plays piano and guitar and has an endless supply of one liners. Paige was really sweet, and her older sister is a senior here at SMCM. But both bryan and paige go to Towson...they have a football team.

so we all went back home and everyone else got dressed. chris as a guy from BUYMORE in Chuck a tv show. Bryan gale as indiana jones number 2 (the one that people recognized as being indiana jones) and paige as a black cat, bob as a cowboy, and audrey as a ballerina.

hallowgreens is when all the underclassmen trick or treat for alcohol at all the upperclassmens apartment housing. all in all things are pretty crazy, but public safety is around in case anything gets out of hand.

the rest of the night consisted of a few rounds of malibu, a whole lot of jello shots, some apple punch spiked juice, and some jungle juice.

probably the best part was Ross' apartment, which we visited about five times.

Ross and his friends had done a full out production of...wait for it... "KING ARTHUR'S CASTLE" The entire apartment was decked out as a castle. complete with a sign on the front door that said "ye must have seen one and twenty winters to enter this castle" which craig thought was a line from a movie..."no craig... it means you have to be 21 to drink here stupid"

Ross and friends were a complete cast with some pretty awesome costumes. they were serving spiked rum and playing medieval sounding music. it was pretty amazing.

it started raining pretty hard and i was feeling pretty intense marching around in my combat boots i had borrowed from some one for my costume. audrey the ballerina was not doing as well in her slippers and although it didnt really seem to phase her, bob would occasionally just pick her up and carry her around. whenever he put her down she would start jumping up and down and waving her arms around to whatever music happened to be playing depending on the house.

at one point i turned around and craig had randomly bought a pizza from some dominos delivery guy who was dressed as an oversized gorilla. but at that point i didnt even bother asking him...

then we all went home and went to sleep we were grateful for no casualties. craig had 7 people sleeping in his room because his room mate had invited his ex girlfriend down to celebrate in the festivities. it was a full house and then some.

POINT LOOKOUT STATE PARK

the next morning we all woke up and went to brunch. Then i had to take pictures for an art project i was working on which required me to go off campus to the nearby Point lookout state park. Craig and i had decided to make a trip out of it and invited bryan, paige, bob, and audrey to come along, which of course they all did. So we voyaged off campus in a small caravan of cars with no directions (craig: um well i kind of know how to get there.... approximately...) but alot of country music cds (which were bryans) and arrived at the park (miraculously?)! we wandered and took pictures and laughed, and then all had to say goodbye because people had to go back to their own colleges and such. which was sad.

hopefully more visits are in store in the future.

now i am majorly excited for CHRISTMAS!!!