Happy New Year!

I had such a great time last night, I'm totally surprised.

I got to the formal around 8:15, and everybody was there and I saw Lincoln, Mel, Audrey, Seth Holts, and Samantha at a table so I went and sat with them. The place looked lovely, it was packed with confetti, balloons, candles, it was just really nice. Dinner was good too, it was just Olive Garden but it was better then what they usually do.

I hadn't seen Katie for a month, and all of a sudden I hear somebody say "Camille!" and there she was wearing a PINK dress with rhinestones! I have NEVER seen Katie wear a dress before, its just not something she does, but she looked great. It was so good to catch up with her, shes doing better. I love that girl.

Apparently they were going to watch 'Napoleon Dynamite' at 11, but my captors showed up right before then. Chelsea and Marta.

I took them around and introduced them to the people they didn't know, and then we left. It was So dead in CR, but I was happy about that! We didn't really want to go downtown to a really nice restaurant and spend a ton of money, and theres no way we could have even gotten into a bar if we wanted to, so we just went to an almost abandoned Chili’s and got drinks and cheesecake.

Our waiter was this guy named Chad, and he was obviously bored so we kept him busy asking for all sorts of stupid things.

Chelsea: "Chad can I get a bowl of marcino cherries for my drink?"

Marta: "Chad you know those towers in the middle of corn fields? Are those for cell phones or radio signals? Oh and could you bring Camille and I some lemons?

Camille: "Hey Chad could you take our picture?"

HA! It was quite the riot, we weren't really that annoying, just pretty relaxed and a little silly. We left him a thank you note on a napkin though with a big tip, so I think its all good with Chad.

Then we started back to my house and got into town almost exactly at midnight, so I pulled into Dad's parking lot and we danced around and yelled and kissed each other. Good fun times.

After that we came back to my house and hung out in my room...and then of course we had to eat some more so we went into the kitchen and brought a bunch of food to the table and lit candles and talked for three hours. We got DEEP at that late hour, ha ha ha. Reminiscing about the year, how we've changed, what we've learned...how we want to make next year better...

...it was good. Marta made us pick New Years Resolutions so I said that I'm going to try and say "No" more when people ask me to do things I really don't want to do. Its going to be tough, but healthy.

So it was a really great new year after all, and I have hopes and fears for the next year...but here it is. I guess I'm just going to have to dive in and give it my best.

Now I'm going to post pictures from the fun night.