Fun Times with Fun Friends

This photo was taken on self-timer on July 20th, 2019 in Custard Cup at 10:30 pm. This was after we had met around 5:30 for dinner at Olive Garden, because who doesn’t love pasta, and after we had walked around TJ Maxx for a good hour and a half. TJ Maxx is where we made the wonderful purchase of matching yellow hoodies with the words “DAYDREAMER” on them.

Originally the night had started out with just the plan to see each other and eat some dinner. We all met at Olive Garden, I was super excited because these were some of my favorite people and I hadn’t seen them as much as I wanted over summer. Gloria and Kat had both just graduated and were getting ready for college, which meant I wouldn’t get to see them every day in the Uni halls, so I knew this might be one of the last time we all got together and had a good time for a while. We eventually all arrived to olive garden and were catching each other up on how our summers had been thus far and what was new. As soon as the waiter walked over we immediately asked for as many breadsticks as we could have (He only brought one basket the first time but eventually caved and started bringing us more). Part of the reason I love these people is that I rarely talk to them without ending up crying laughing, and that's great. When we were ready to order Kristine asked if the dessert lasagna with layers of chocolate cake and frosting had noodles in it. This led to everyone laughing uncontrollably and barely being able to order our food. After spending a few hours talking and eating we decided we were going to go to TJ Maxx since it was just across the parking lot from Olive Garden. We all started our TJ Maxx trip by cramming into the bathroom because pretty much everyone needed to pee. We made our way slowly through the aisles of the store picking a lot of items up even though we knew we weren’t going to buy them. When we got out of the clothes sections and more into the decoration stuff we just went crazy. Kat and Glo were sitting in the middle of the aisle with planners all around them trying to figure which one to get Samaia, Kristine and I all split up and almost every 30 seconds would call out someone's name so we could find each other.

As we were on our way to check out a couple of things each of us grabbed we came across these intense yellow hoodies in the middle of the men's section. At first, we saw 2 or 3 and thought it would be fun to put them on and see how they looked but we slowly realized there were enough for all of us and we all found sizes that worked for us. It seemed like the perfect thing to symbolize and remember the night. It’s hard to say if we would have bought them had we not been full with pasta and walking around TJ Maxx for over an hour. We all bought them and put them on. To end the night we decided to go to Custard cup and get some ice cream in our matching hoodies. As we waited in line we got plenty of stares someone asked if we were all from someday camp, to which we replied no, we are just great friends. After finishing our ice cream we decided we needed photos to remember this night. We refused to let anyone take them for us, we insisted on using the self-timer. We took so many photos and everyone had me laughing so hard, we were taking photos for like 20 or 30 mins. This photo is my favorite just because everyone is doing something funny and weird. You got Kat super enthusiastic with her leg in the air, Kristine not ready for the photo still trying to tie her hoodie, me fighting air, Samaia representing the mental state we were all in, and who knows what Gloria was dong. Every time I see all the photos we took in my camera roll or see the hoodie in my closet I smile and am reminded of the great friends I have. :)