preference

yesterday was the big day. we started our preference date at 2:30 for an ice blocking excursion. out of all 10 couples, 20 people, no one got hurt which is a huge accomplishment in my opinion. between the hours of 4:30 and 7:00 was a massive chaotic flustering of getting myself ready along with my friends brittany and tiffany. then more chaos ensued as i got in the car and realized that i forgot where my date darren lives. not good. after many frantic phone calls and a completely lucky guess, i picked him up--late. we rushed back to brittany and tiffany's for pictures and drove up to mckenzie's for a pasta buffet. then we headed off for the dance. that was hands down the best part of the whole experience. it was SO FUN! we stayed for over 2 hours. oh man. darren is such a fun kid and it was such a blast to be there with him!

ya my eyes are closed and look at matt's face!

this picture is totally blurry and not so flattering but whatever.

i had a hard time keeping my eyes open apparently

here's the good picture

this was half of the group. it was so fun having such a big group!
now for the embarassing part of the story, in trying to get darren home before his curfew, i ran a stop sign and was speeding a bit, and--you guessed it--i got pulled over. i got a ticket and traffic school. so then darren was really late for his curfew, and so was i. bad news. but it could have been worse, and he didn't get in trouble, and my parents weren't mad either.
other than that little mishap, it was seriously the most fun dance i've ever been to!