contra and letters.

so last night i traveled over to asheville to go CONTRA DANCING with my friends mary and gibby. can i just tell you that i have never had this much fun!! just imagine jumping into your most comfortable, flowy, summer dress and dancing barefoot with about 100 hippies in an old barn/house turned gym. it was one of the most fun and freeing experiences i've ever had. contra dancing is somewhat like line dancing with everyone doing the same thing but with lots more twirls. i had no earthly idea what i was doing but the guys simply pull you in and twirl you to the next partner- it's super easy to catch on to.
and the best part- when everyone gets done... you run down to the pond that's near by and jump in. it's extremely refreshing and trust me, much needed after dancing in a room with no air conditioning and lots of hippies! 

sadly no pictures were taken while we were dancing. besides the fact that i was a sweaty hot mess and wouldn't want to share a picture of that... we left everything in the car.
we did, however, stop for some photo ops on our way there!
gibby is ridiculously good at iphone self timers, by the way.

climbing the fence- no parking? oh... we're sorry. or not.

this was actually pretty scary. there were no stairs to get into this old ass silo so gibby had to lift us up and set us on the first window. he of course gracefully shimmied himself up to the second, and then the third. we're lucky he's fearless.

now moving on to our weekly letters!

dear God- help me get through the next few months at work until things calm down. you really know how to test my patience. i'm grateful you do though... i'm learning a lot right now. and please get my sister and her babies back home to NC safely next week.


dear florida- you cray cray. i just read that there was a 3rd flesh eating incident in your state... get it together. and to the people that keep saying it's zombies- you're idiots. people just need to lay off the drugs and bath salts.

dear work- calm yourself down, please and thank you. and you can hire a replacement for the coworker that quit (almost two months ago) at any time. we would greatly appreciate it.

dear sugar free vanilla latte from mcd's- you are incredible. can i get you delivered to my desk on a daily basis?

dear upstairs neighbor- please tell me i was dreaming when i heard a saxophone playing at 3am this morning. who does that?? i already wrote you your own full letter. don't make me write you another one.

happy friday, happy weekend, go dance your socks off!!