Comin' Out of the Woods

(It's been over a week since I've blogged and I'm feeling the pressure. It has become part of my daily routine to check my email, peruse Facebook, and then check my list of blogs to see who has posted an update. I got home from the beach last night about 8:30 and went straight to my computer (how sad). The first update I found was from my roommate, begging for someone to post something new. When I got home from work today, I promised her that I would give her something new to read while she was at work. I just got an email from her asking why I haven't made good on my promise yet.)

I went to Destin, FL this weekend. What started out as two girls wanting to go to the beach for the weekend turned into so much more. We ended up renting 2 houses so that all 20 of us could have a place to put our stuff and lay our heads at night. It was a really fun weekend!

It all started Friday morning about 5:00 am. For some reason, 4 of us were determined to get to the beach as soon as possible. One benefit to leaving so early is that we didn't run into any traffic. On the way, I was introduced to a new singer, Zac Brown. I must have heard his song Chicken Fried (as well as Sic 'em on a Chicken) at least 50 times through out the whole weekend and I'm still not tired of it. I was actually inspired to download one of his albums. Love it! Here is a video of him singing Chicken Fried. Visit his website to hear more of his music.

Probably the funniest part of the weekend was learning a new dance. Sunday night, after dinner, most of us met at Cafe 331 to do a little dancing. I don't remember the song that we were all dancing to, but it was one of those Cha-Cha Slide-type songs that has a dance to go with it (if you remember the song, please let me know). A couple of girls in our group started the dance and pretty soon, everyone in the place was trying to follow along. It occurred to me that someone could just start doing the same steps over and over, and people would probably join in eventually. It only took 3-4 minutes for our two ADHD members to come up with their own dance moves. They were all too enthusiastic to unveil them during the next song. Of course we all went along with it and it worked; before the song was over, several others were trying to join in. Did anyone catch the name of that dance?