Milestone week and stuff

Phew! Why are there only 24 hours in a day? Last week contained of;

• Getting up
• Making coffee
• Sit down and read for the milestone test we had on Friday
• Go to school and remember you didn't eat breakfast
• Sit at school and study
• Go home and sit down to study
• Go to bed and remember you didn't eat dinner

And no, getting up didn't mean at 2 PM! I know 99% of you guys are thinking that. It was 12 PM. (did I mention we had the late shift?) But guess what! I aced the test ^^ 100%! Stuff like that makes me happy.

After school last Friday 11 of us jumped into 3 cars and set course for Minneapolis! I was lucky enough to drive the whole way there, about 4-5 hours. The destination? A sleazy, cheap motel.

Mmmm... We doubt they washed some of the sheets properly... But what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Or we'll be in a House episode next week with some weird disease.

Now... What is the first thing we do after getting a mediocre nights sleep? (We arrived at 1 AM) Go to IKEA and eat Swedish meatballs! It wasn't fried or covered with cheese! Sweet salvation of food. The other girls went kinda berserk at IKEA. You've seen the pictures of our car? Let me jolt your memory:

4 people in this car, not so much space to begin with. But the best buy was a picture/canvas, measuring 2 meters wide :D And it actually fit in the car! I didn't, though. But I volunteered to drive with the guys in the OLDSMOBILE! Remember that beauty? Let me jolt your memory:

The seats are made from heaven, and the car flows on the road while you're listening to the silence that is the motor. I've said this before you say? Like 10 times? I can't say it often enough! Okay? I'll give you guys a picture of the ridiculously big canvas when/if we get it up.

IKEA wasn't really the biggest event this day. That was Mall of America, the biggest mall in North America. It's huge... Too huge... You need days to get through it. And it has a bloody amusement park in the middle of the mall! (Yes, I took a roller-coaster. And no, I didn't scream. That much. *ahem*)

You can always count on Americans to go one step further than anyone else

I managed to find close to nothing while walking around there! I did buy a pair of shorts and a sports bra, but I managed to forget them at the motel when we left... We went back after a while, but they didn't have it. Probably went in the trash. So not only did I spend 65 dollars on clothes I'll never see again, I owe one of the guys a new bathing shorts since he had his in my plastic bag. FML.

After a tiresome day at a too big mall with too many people, we went to relax at a water park right next door. Do you know what's not fun in a water park? Not getting any water on you until it's been 40 mins.

First thing 4 of us did, was to line up in a queue to do one of the bigger rides. When we're almost at the top, we're told that they have to have a 10 minute break for some reason. So we decide to just skip the ride, and go swim in one of the pools. But once we're down, we realize the 10 minute break meant the whole god damn water park! But it was all good when we finally got to play in the water =)


We spent the evening in downtown Minneapolis, which made us realize that Grand Forks really isn't that grand. At all. After a good dinner at an Indian restaurant we went out in the cold streets to find a pub of some sort.

I was smart enough to not have any ID with me, since I couldn't find my wallet that evening (don't worry, mom. I found it the day after.) And the Americans are pretty nazi when it comes to seeing an ID that shows you're over 21 years old. Which brings me to;

Definition of Irony

We found a pub, but everybody needed to show an ID before going in. One of the girls gave me one of her IDs, and I gave it a go. And it worked! I got in!

The irony, the ID showed that I was younger than I am. Have I misunderstood the use of a fake ID? I think not! I'm getting too old!



Sunday was the real reason we went to Minneapolis. a NFL game, Vikings versus Cardinals. Yes. American football.

My understanding of football before the game:       0/10
My understanding of football after the game:          3/10

Things I learned:

- There are 4 rounds, each are 15 minutes
- but 15 minutes in American sports means approx 45 minutes due to a whooooole lot of breaks
- When your team is playing bad (I was told they were playing bad. I didn't know), the game is really boring.
- After 2 hours and 20 minutes you're ready to quit this bitch,
- But then the Vikings suddenly picked up the pace and created an extremely exiting game at the end!
- I might have become a supporter.

Another fun part of NFL. We showed up at 0930 to find a place to park, but the game didn't start until 12 PM. What to do? Go to a pub nearby and get a coffee! With Bailey's! At 10 AM!

And since it was my birthday, I got to drive the whole way back to Grand Forks with the Oldsmobile ^^ I actually asked the guys if I could, and they just grinned from ear to ear and went to buy a bunch of beers.

Now, now. Before you ask, I drank that coffee 6 hours before I sat down behind a steering wheel. A cup of coffee and Bailey's is long gone before that time.