Rainy Day Adventures

So, if there's anything I hate more than meat and having to wake up early, it's rainy Sundays. I mean, after all, it is called SUNday, therefore I always feel a little sad and dreary when a Sunday comes around where it is not even a little bit sunny, a day much like today. This afternoon turned out to be better than expected though, despite gloomy skies and pouring cold rain.

First of all, my family stopped for a quick doughnut run at Dixie Donuts, which is probably the cutest doughnut shop I have ever been in my entire life. They are constantly inventing new flavors of doughnuts, so of course I have to try a new one every time! This time I tried German chocolate (which was a chocolate doughnut with dark chocolate frosting and walnut creme stuff in the middle... YUM) as well as the 'OMG' doughnut (a vanilla doughnut with chocolate frosting and a chocolate doughnut hole in the middle with vanilla frosting and caramel and chocolate drizzled over it... help I think I'm going into chocolate overload... oh wait that doesn't exist...)

 Car selfies with the ever stubborn Meg

Meg looks cute even when she eats doughnuts...

After Dixie Donuts, my family and I went to the VMFA, the HUGE art museum in RVA. We decided to check out the South Asian Art exhibit because that is what I'm going to be learning about in art this year, so we figured it'd be cool to check it beforehand. This exhibit was filed with lots of pieces of art depicting Hindu and Buddhist gods, such as the above statue of Shiva, the all-powerful creator of the universe in the Hindu religion (at least that's what I read on the description plaque... I'm not actually Hindu so correct me if my facts are wrong...) 

 Chihuly is probably one of the most amazing things I've ever seen...

After checking out Southeast Asian art, Meg and I ventured over to the Chinese and Japanese art since that is what I learned about this year. Meg actually seemed to like it a lot, especially some of the tapestries and screens, and I took pictures of some of my favorite things such as the picture of the bird in the branches and the two ink drawings.

This was Meg's very favorite thing in the entire museum... I think she liked that it had animals on it... I have to admit, I like it too though.

We found this room at the very top of the building where one wall was made completely out of windows, so you could see the whole city. 

What I'm wearing:

Dress: H&M

Boots: Target

(I had taken my belt off at this point because I was being lazy, but I usually would wear a belt along with this outfit)

If Meg and I work together, we have enough arms to portray Shiva, unfortunately with an extra set of legs...

After I got home, I did chores, ate Caprese Salad (possible recipe coming later!) and worked on my birthday gift for Reshini. I was actually pretty proud of it, I made her a CD of 15 love songs since she's 15 and I love her... Ok fine it's cheesy but she liked it. After dinner I went to Reshini's house for a couple hours to celebrate her birthday, and although I didn't get any pictures, almost EVERYONE I made missed from school was there, and it was so awesome to see everyone again! We all ate too much ice cream and hung out in Reshini's living room with the extremely soft rug and watched Identity Thief and looked at videos of our young embarrassing selves. Now I just have to wait a couple more weeks before seeing them all again... I'm already starting to go into deprivation...

So no matter how muggy you "Sun"day was, I just hope it was a happy day!

Pterodactyl

I know I just got back from camp yesterday, but since my friend Kim is leaving today for 3rd session, we decided we HAD to get together in the small 24 hour period between sessions. We were going to go to the pool, but since it started to rain as soon as she got here, we decided we would have to just go to the playground instead. We swung on the swings for a long time, then waded in the creek and took some interesting pictures of us with a tree...

After getting back from the creek we ate spaghetti and salad and homemade bread and it was delicious, although I do admit I miss Cindy's rolls more than anything... Since I was still in a camp-mood and Kim was exciting about going the next day, we sang some camp songs and talked about the new counselors and played one of our favorite camp games, Pterodactyl. 

Since you're not allowed to show your teeth in Pterodactyl, some odd things resulted, such as this:

Afterward, we decided to go spray ourselves with the hose because we hadn't been able to go to the pool, but it started thundering so we just filled up my giant bathtub and "swam" in our swimsuits. It was really fun, but since Kim leaves today, I'm not going to see her for 2 more weeks! I'm just glad I got to see her before she left, or it would have been 4 weeks without her!

Meg is going to miss Kim too.

Basically, 2 weeks is going to feel like a long time. At least I can write to her! I'm jealous of her being at camp!

Definition of Class

After going three weeks without my best friend Cece, we knew that had to change. So today, despite the horrible bipolar weather, humidity, and thunderstorms, Cece came over for some midday adventures in my neighborhood. We made Ramen and quesadillas and cake pops, waded in the creek while it was still sunny, and then started walking to the McDonalds to buy milkshakes when the rain started POURING down on us. Luckily Cece had her cute purple umbrella, so we huddled under the umbrella arm in arm, drank chocolate milkshakes, and took a walk in the rain because despite my love for sunny weather, I do enjoy taking a walk in the rain every once in a while.

Because we are best friends, we had a wonderful time despite wet shoes and other unfortunate parts of a rainy day, and we figured we probably looked very classy sitting soaking wet in a McDonalds, then walking back through my neighborhood drinking milkshakes under a purple umbrella. Unfortunately, I'm going to camp next week, and she's going to Switzerland the day I come back, so this is the last time we'll see each other until August. I don't know how I'm going to handle it.

Because we are classy, once we'd dried off and gotten back under a roof, we made this recording of 'Little Talks' by Of Monsters and Men. We both loved the song as well as love to sing, and figured we could do a cover of it together! We also now have a joint SoundCloud account, except nothing new will probably be posted until August... Anyway here is the link to our song ---> Little Talks- Cece and Virginia

Also, check out Cece's profile, she is amazing, plays the ukelele, and is basically the most adorable person I have ever met.

Eep, Cece what am I going to do without you until August?!? Have fun in Switzerland!