Saturday morning I woke up around 8:45 and mossied (word?yes.) down my 3 flights of stairs to the kitchen to make my fav. tea (today:goodearth white tea with vanilla). A couple of my fellow roommies (Crissa&Erin) were down stairs reading and sipping on some coffee. We began to discuss what we were going to do with our 3 day weekend...
Crissa: "Oooooh let's go to Roosevelt Island (sweet place to hike/run trails)!"
Me: "Sounds great--how do we get there?"
Crissa: "Ummm, we could metro and then maybe catch a bus...I wish we had a car."
Erin: "Yea, me too."
Crissa: "We could use my zip car..."
All: "hmm yea..."
Erin: "OR, We could buy a car on Craig's List..."
All: "oooo now that's a great idea! let's go in together to buy a really cheap car on Craig's list and then if it breaks it really won't matter."
(we are extremely logical thinkers. just wait)
(Erin searches on Craig's list. no luck. best result: bright red 15 passenger van. awesome, but not practical when you need to parallel park on our street)
Erin: "hmmm What about Ebay?"
All: "oooo yea yea Ebay seems more professional and reliable."
(Erin searches on Ebay. again, no luck.)
All: "..."
Me: "I mean I have my car in Texas...we could fly to Texas and drive my car back."
Crissa: "yessss! we could totally do that!"
Erin: "I'll look up tickets! Emily, where do you fly in?"
Me: "DFW, but I mean...really? you want to fly to Texas?"
Crissa: "Heck yes! This is the best idea yet!"
Erin: "The ticket is only $120!!!!"
(lots of screaming and shouting...)
Betsy enters the picture, slowly walking down the stairs: "guys...what in the world is going on?"
All: "WE'RE GOING TO DAINGERFIELD!!!"
Betsy: "What? Why?"
All: "We're going to get Emily's car!!!!"
Betsy: "Wait, you want a car to go to Roosevelt Island--so you are going to fly to Texas and drive Emily's car back...?"
All: "yessssssss! a;lsdkfjawoeifj!!!!"
(lots of jumping and screaming. i told you this only got more logical)
Me: "ok ok let's think about this. i'll call my dad and see if the car would be ready to go if we came and see what he thinks...let's go for a run and pick up some groceries at eastern market and then come back home to decide"
1:30 p.m. rolls around...Crissa and I in the kitchen all sweaty and making some lunch
Crissa: "Ok if we are going to go we need to buy our tickets now"
Me: "uhhhh....(thinking thinking)...Ok let's do it! the plane leave in 2 hrs we have to hurrrrrrry!!!!"
1:35 p.m. buy ticets
2 p.m. leave house for airport(minor detail: we find out a little too late that the metro is not working...)
3:30 p.m. board plane (with a few minutes to spare)
9 p.m. Anna and Steve pick us up from airport
1 a.m. arrive at mi casa in D'field
My mom had NO CLUE i was coming. complete surprise. she had woken up to go to the bathroom when i arrived home...i snuck in her bed and snuggled in under the covers. you can only imagine what happened next. her jaw dropped for a good 3 minutes...shaking...lots of tears...crazy laughter.
pictures to come soon. and stories from the road (all 1,221 miles of it)
the day started with wanting to go to roosevelt island and we ended up in daingerfield.
ohhh life. you are funny.
17 February 2009
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This story has the smell of Emily all over it! I still am not quite following the logic though. So, are you still going to use this car to go to your island?? What will you do with the car now?? Would it have not been cheaper to rent a car for the weekend than to fly to Texas and then pay for gas to get back??
I mean... seeing your family definitely trumps all that... no doubt. Just curious!
to clear things up:
i had been toying with the idea ever since christmas to somehow get my car to DC. i didn't get a long enough vaca over the holidays to drive it up so i looked up pricing on shipping my car but that is WAY too expensive.
ever since i just decided that i didn't care. i have gotten used to public transportation and i enjoy it a lot (and really like how environmentally conscious i have become)
but then there are those times when you need groceries.
or a bookshelf--and you realize that you can't carry that for 3 miles.
there are 3 of us in the house without a car so in bringing mine--now we have one to share! the keys are available for anyone at anytime!
i still want to remaing thinking as if i do not have a car. i will continue to metro to work and back, and prob. only use my car on the weekends. there are both pros and cons to having/not having a car in DC. but when this weekend happened it just made sense that this would be a great time to go get it...or maybe not much sense at all...but it worked. :)
That's awesome Emily!! I love how random it was. I hope you made it back safely! We should hang out soon!!
I respect that so very much.
wow.
that is nothing short of incredible.
i'm so impressed. PLEASE post pictures and stories.
I love your life. haha.
hahaha that's HILARIOUS!
i wish i had know you were coing- I so would have driven to daingerfield to see you
i miss you so much! i cant wait to see you in a few months!!
love you!
i love it! we miss you emily seybert!
haha, this is the best post!! em, you are so fun :)
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