Norden Dance!

I'll pick up where I left off yesterday...

I headed into town to get groceries right after I posted my blog. Let me tell ya- if my car was in any sorts of alignment before I left it definitly isn't now! haha I hardly made it- it had rained more south of here so Toro and I had quite the trip to town. But, I got there grabbed some groceries, checked my mail and scooted right on out of town because high school graduation was just letting out and there were people everywhere!

I went back to the house and unloaded groceries. It sounded like everyone was laying pretty low for the rest of the day so I stayed up at the house for the most part and worked on setting up my computer and internet connection as well as cleaning and balancing my checkbook, etc. It seems as though I can always find something to keep busy with! I got ahold of my friend Carter that I had plans to meet up with that evening. He said that we should meet around 9 or 9:30 in Valentine and then we would travel to Norden for the barn dance together. Horray for barn dances. So...I spent the afternoon setting up my dresser and doing all sorts of random things around the house.

For some reason I had it stuck in my mind that Carter was going to call me when they left their place- so I waited. By eight o'clock I hadn't heard from them so I just took off for Valentine. Since it's about an hour and a half I figured I could be there by 9:30. Right after I left I got a text message from Carter saying that they were almost to Valentine...what!? I was soo confused. Well come to find out- if you haven't already caught on, there is a time change between Martin and Valentine- you loose and hour and enter back into central time about 30 miles west of Valentine. Yeah...Sara didn't know that and Carter never thought of it either. This means that I got to Valentine at about 10:30 instead of 9:30. To top things off when I figured an hour and a half according to map quest I never thought to count the 15 minutes is takes to get to Martin. Since it was high school graduation night around here I scooted right along figuring that the cops were all busy with high schoolers! ;) No Mom, I didn't go "too fast".

But I eventually made it and met up with the boys. Then the three of us (Carter, Roan, and I) dropped my car off at Carter's family's place that they own in town and headed to Norden. We thought it was free so we just walked in the door like we owned the place- come to find out, it's $5! Since neither of us had cash in our pockets we just kinda sat there and felt bad. But, by the end of the night the guys at the door had had a few and the Snouser (sp?) dog was taking money so we didn't feel too bad. We'll just have to pay em double next time! We had a great time! The live bands are a lot of fun and you can dance to every song:D In fact, one highlight of the evening was the two different high school girls chasing Roan around. A little liquid courage and a cute boy sent them a huntin! He wouldn't dance with anyone and by the end of the night apparently I was his "clutch girl" also know as his escape woman! It was hillarious, I told Carter that watching him get annoyed over the evening was worth the drive alone!

With lots of fun having been had- the dance ended at about 1am. Carter and Roan took me back to town to stay in the empty house there and they headed back to their place. Just for background info- a lot of people out here have houses in the towns where their kids attend school and a house on the ranch jsut to save money. So, I got the hosue to myself. The boys told me that just because I got a house to myslef all night doesn't mean I can drag boys through- dang! ...you know me. haha

I got up early this morning and made my way back to Martin. I've been working on the house and tying up some odds and ends since. Now it's time to go drop Bart of at the fish sitters...(hahaha) and meet Mom and John in Interior! Horray for good times:) I will probably not have internet out there so it might be a couple days. See ya!