a fun week(end) with my friends!

 This post is a little more exciting than the other ones I've been making recently, yippee!! But seriously, I am super lucky to have friends in my life who are willing to come visit me on the other side of the great state of California. Two of my friends came up to see my best friend and me and also to celebrate Halloween with us. 

It was a really fun weekend overall, and I thought I would share some of my favorite moments here! This was my costume on Halloween night; I went as a sad clown with two of my friends, Jake and Megan. The toughest time of the whole trip was finding things to do, and we definitely struggled on this night for things to do. For our main event, we decided to go to a house show for a little bit, but we ultimately ended up walking around the city for most of the night because we weren't sure what else there was to do. There should be some context here: the city we go to school in has an issue with unsafe Halloween events occurring on the actual weekend Halloween falls on, so everyone throws parties the weekend before. Until we actually went to school here, we didn't know this, so we told our friends to come up thinking there would be tons of stuff to do when in reality there wasn't. We still made the most of it though and I think we all enjoyed ourselves pretty well this night. 

The next day, we did virtually nothing, because it was raining the whole time we were awake. It was a much-needed rest day for everyone. We spent the day playing board games and talking about ourselves. 

Brace yourselves because this is the day when things get crazy (I'm kidding, kind of). We live very close to a national park with a volcanic mountain in it, and since it rained all day on Friday, we decided Saturday would be a great opportunity to see the snow if it was cold enough at the mountain. So, we made the hour and a half drive up, and sure enough there was almost two feet of snow on the ground by November 2nd! This was also my best friend's first time seeing snow that she remembers. I am so grateful that she had a good experience because honestly, I was a little nervous there would be nothing left on the ground. 

It was the right kind of snow too! The powdery kind that you can fall into without hurting yourself (though to be honest, we all tried to fall into the snow and we all hurt our heads, whoops). I have never lived in snow before, so I'm sure this doesn't seem nearly as magical if you live somewhere like Illinois or something, bear with me. 

This weekend taught me a lot about my friendships, and how important they are to a person's life. I am so grateful I have these wonderful people in my life that I can talk to about anything. Living away from home is hard, but it's really only like this because I've lost a majority of my support system. I am just so extremely lucky that I live with my best friend who understands me so deeply. If you are to receive anything in your life, I truly hope that everyone receives a best friend. 

Well, I suppose this concludes my weekend, even though I am quite literally almost three weeks late with this post. I hope that if this reaches you, I am thinking of you fondly and I want everyone to feel loved right now. Until next time, cheers!