Friday: Patrick showed up at the house in the morning to pick me up. He was fairly early, which shocked his parents a little. It must be love! :) I got the grand tour of Transportation Insight where Patrick works. Everyone was very nice. It's a neat place, and they all had good things to say about my boyfriend. It made me so proud.
From there we went to the bank where Mrs. Berry works. The welcome was overwhelming! All of her co-workers are evidently faithful readers of my blog. It was so funny because they all already knew me to some degree and were following the story of our Love. Great fun!
On to Boone - a beautiful drive up to the mountains. I got just a bit car sick, but once we had lunch at Our Daily Bread my stomach settled. We got to go to Footsloggers, Jason's outfitter store - very cool! He is so nice and it was entertaining to watch he and Patrick interact. The ASU tour was next. What a great school! Kind of made me wish that I had gone there.
Saturday: We woke up early so that we could go to the ASU Homecoming Parade that Patrick was driving in. It was cold cold cold when we left but quickly warmed up to a sunny 72 degrees. The weather could not have been better! Once the parade was finished we walked all over campus, down to Duck Pond Field, and then back to the other side to meet up with some old friends. I met tons of alumni, professors, current students, etc.
Instead of going to the game we decided to go for a hike up at Price Park. There I met some very curious cows (see pictures below). They followed us up to the wooded area where we strapped up the hammock and stared at us like we were doing something terribly wrong. We were getting uncomfortable as one of them got closer and closer. Definately was a Kodak moment...
Sunday: Church, lunch with friends, a tour of Hickory and some great time with the Berrys. I learned to ride the Segway, which by the way is great fun! At this point, we were starting to feel the wonderful weekend coming to an end. We had to both work to distract one another from getting really sad. We had as much quality time together as we could. The trip was full of great memories and stories, moments and discoveries. I did not want to leave.
