The fun comes after dinner where we practically are free to do whatever we want! It was honestly so much fun and you can imagine how much pranks the boys played on us... ! We also have this tradition as a team to give a "buddy box." A buddy box is a box decorated to a certain theme and filled with fun stuff. We pick names randomly and from there, we make a box for that person! The girl I was doing a box for chose a monkey theme-
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The monkeys pop up!! |
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See what I did here!!?? |
Since it was my senior year, I wanted to make the best box possible! I always love making these boxes! I first chose a dark green box and painted over any words. For the top of my box, I basically drew (traced) two monkeys, colored them, and them to the top of the box in a pop up fashion.
On the sides of the box, I drew trees in the forest and glued it onto the side of the box. The pictures took so long to drew. I really wanted to hang plastic monkeys from the side of the box, but failed at finding any plastic monkeys. You know, monkey themed items are much harder to find that you would expect! Therefore, I had to print out my own monkeys from the computer to attach instead!
On the bottom of the box, I taped this adorable wrapping paper to it and on the inside of the lid, I made a mini collage of monkeys!! It was super cute!
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From Top Left- Nail Polish Stickers, Fuzzy Nail Polish!!, Revlon Galaxy Polish, Magnetic Nail Polish, Sparkly Nail Polish |
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Can I just eat it all?? |
I also filled the box with candy! So much candy!! I was even able to find a chocolate bar called "endangered species." The picture on the bar was a monkey and this company would donate 10% of it's sales to saving these endangered animals!! How sweet is that? I support this company 100% and I personally plan to be getting more of my chocolate from them. It doesn't hurt that their chocolate is all organic also! hehe!
We stayed at the Hampton Inn and our room was very nice. We had 4 girls to a room and when I got there, I kinda clammed my bed right away. It wasn't on purpose, but I really needed a place to put my stuff! I lugged two buddy boxes (mine and a friend's) up, my backpack, my books, my clothes, racing & training shoes... etc... basically more stuff than I needed from CT. to NH. My arms were dying hehe. That is what happens when you are a girl. You need to pack clothes for EVERY possible occasion!
Right when we got to the room, we were expected to change and go for our run. We were planning on a 20 min. jog, but that got caught in half thanks to the rain! (no complaining here!) After our run, we had an hour to get ready and go to dinner! I chose to wear my colbalt jet dress for dinner.
For dinner we went to a restaurant called Mama D's.. It was really pretty inside, but the food was not so impressive. The pasta sauce was lacking, but the salad was delicious!! (this is coming from someone who hates raw vegetables!)
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Had to blur out people . sorry~ |
After dinner, we headed back to the hotel where it was time to open out buddy boxes!! We changed into out pajamas and began exchanging boxes one at a time! The coolest thing happened when I leaned that the person I had for a box also had me! She made my box amazing!! My theme was hello kitty and Farenheit (the chinese band.. google it , they are all so cute!=) . I didn't expect her to follow my Farenheit theme, but she did!! I absolutely lover her and my box!! I will show you some detailed pictures of it in my next post! The pictures are still in my camera as of now =)
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I love these sparkly pj's!! I just had to take a picture! |
We awoke at the crack of dawn and believe me it was hard to get up!! We all had out breakfast and walked out to the sight of this beauty.
It was a perfect rainbow! It had down poured while we were sleeping!!
The rain sadly led to a very muddy course! Though I got so dirty, it was kinda fun to run. Lots of hills and mud meant that I had to focus on other things beside my pain!!! Take a look at my feet after the run- (the gray stuff is dried dirt)
The course I ran was one of the most challenging courses I've run. Lots of hills and the mud made it that much harder to sprint when we were going downhill. I still loved it though. Since it was an invitational race, I had no pressure do well though I did push myself multiple times. When it came to hills, I pushed myself up them and tried my best to pass people there. The one part I have to fix about my racing is my mentality. I think I feel as if I am scared to go faster. I know I can do it, but I have this fear of going too fast and then burning out at the end. It would suck to be slowly jogging or even walking right at the end when everyone is watching. I have to get over this fear soon though because it is preventing me from even speeding up at all!!
It was honestly so much fun and I cannot believe that it is my last year to do this. I have been on this overnight trip 4x and it feels like just yesterday I was a freshman with all the seniors. Now I am a senior and the freshman are telling me that they will miss me next year!! What?? It still has not hit me that next year I won't be here with the team! I was about to cry when the freshman told me that they want me to stay and that the team won't be the same without us seniors! Why!!! I hate racing and sometimes running, but the girls on the team are the sweetest people ever!!! I want to to grasp onto the time and make the most of what I have left!!
Dress- Sugarlips
Pajamas- Forever 21
Who loves my pj's as much as I do hehe? I really love this pair of pajama's! So cute and comfy
Were you part of any sports teams when you were in high school?
Have any of you run a race before? Do you have any tips for getting over that fear of burning out at the end? I really want to speed up at times, but I am afraid too... =)
Pajamas- Forever 21
Who loves my pj's as much as I do hehe? I really love this pair of pajama's! So cute and comfy
Have any of you run a race before? Do you have any tips for getting over that fear of burning out at the end? I really want to speed up at times, but I am afraid too... =)
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