college memories

i was just looking through my college scrapbook and i came across some pictures from disney world. i LOVE disney world. i don't know, i think it has something to do with going there with the family when i was little. i can still see the seagull grabbing the icecream cone out of my sisters hand just like it was yesterday.

the college trip though. wow. it doesn't even seem like it was real.

here's how it happened.

there was a group of six of us that spent a bit of time together. i love these people. to this day and i don't even talk to any of them anymore but then, they were it. they were my every moment of every day and they are how i made it through four years of college. ryan sprenger, jessica einfeld, lauren radke, calvin roskam and nate funk. our lives that year could have easily been the dutch version of the tv show 'friends.'

so, ryan calls up our room one night and calls us over to the guys dorm (noordiwier-vanderwerp, not kidding, that's the name) to talk about an idea they had. when we get there, we are in this little pow-wow in the basement rec area and ryan mentions that he got an email from his aunt who was a travel agent about 'mystery flights' that were going out of grand rapids. you bought a ticket on northwest airlines for $70 for travel in one day. here's the kicker, you don't know where you're going. it could be florida, california, new york and a bunch of other places. i swear we debated for about two hours about how it was so much money and how it's a crazy idea. we decided that we'd do it and since i had a car, at 630 the next morning, i would buy the tickets. and i did. and on them, they said 'destination a'.

that's all we knew.

so at 5am on the morning of the 29th of october, i think, we headed to the 'grand rapids international airport,' international because you could fly to canada, and checked into our flight. and as we all six stood at the counter, the clerk said, 'have fun in orlando.' and we went crazy! so for the next few hours, we plotted and schemed about what to do while in orlando and we came to the conclusion that we needed to go to disney world.

we spent the day having the best time ever with some of the greatest people i've ever known. and by 10pm we were on a plane on our way back to michigan where it was cold and rainy. i remember on our way to my car, where we fit all 6 of us into a '91 honda civic, we just kept saying, 'michigan sucks.'

and that day will forever be one of the days that i will remember forever. i'll post pictures too.

and disney has a world of more stories. i'll tell another one tomorrow. :o) just for kicks.

dreaming of a day with the mouse,
k