Thanks Yom Kipper!

This weekend, seeing as it was a long weekend since those of us here in New York got Monday off for Yom Kipper (by the way, I didn't even have to look up how to spell that, thank you Ari) , my lovely friend Nicole was nice enough to invite myself and her roomate Catherine to her house.

So after working an info session until 3:00 on Saturday. Side note: for those of you who don't know I am currently being trained (while being paid) to be a tour guide. Saturday was great, we had actual families and my senior guide let me give a lot of the tour, I may be ready for my evaluation (which means a $2 pay raise and senior guide status) by the end of this month! Anyway, at 3:00 we took the thirty minute drive to Nicole's town of Dix Hills.

I was wonderful to be in an actual home and eat home cooked meals. Her family was so nice and welcoming, as well as loud and a little bit crazy, so obviously I felt right at home. Her 4 year old niece Emma was there for a while Saturday night, we quickly bonded over having the same name.

The rest of the weekend we did pretty much... nothing. Which was perfect!

Her parents left Sunday morning (after cooking us a delicious brunch), and didn't come home until Monday night.

Here is what three (honors) college freshman did on a weekend with no supervision and a house all to themselves.

Catherine and I made flash cards and studied for our Art History slide quiz. We had to know the title, general date, culture, artist, as well as the significant points about 40 pieces of ancient art, out of which we would only be tested on 6. This is her being the missing head on the Statue of Queen Napir-Asu (1350-1300 BC, Elamite, concerned with permanence, inscription with a curse, ect, ect). I totally aced that quiz, by the way! So obviously sitting back on two recliners, drinking soda, eating chips and peanut M&M's, and quizing each other with the flash cards during the commercial breaks in Fight Club at 2:00am is the best way to study ever.

We also played a four hour epic game of disney monopoly. Which I won, although for a while it was leaning in Catherine's favor (Nicole went bankrupt about four times). We didn't even have enough castles, or $500 bills. You see all those green cottages by my stack of $500s, they represent $500 each.

Other than playing with her mother-daughter set of cocker spaniels, I don't really know what we did. Catherine and I watched mindless television about wedding cakes, wedding dresses, Wedding Crashers, and a boy with "White Trash" tattooed across his chest (not all in the same show, obviously).

We went to the mall, but apparently Dix Hills is a very fancy-smancy sort of place, and all the clothing was plastered with designer labels. We then went to Target where I bought a pair of dark brown "Uggs" for $30.