Ten Years!!!

Although it is hard for me to believe, this month marks 10 years since I graduated from college. My pledge class decided to try to get together to mark the occasion, so Friday night I headed to Tuscaloosa to spend the night here:

As folks arrived and got ready for the evening, this is what the refreshments looked like in the TV room:
Quite a bit different than the study snacks we had there when we were in school! The house has definitely changed. It has been updated quite a bit and while I was really a fan of most of the updates {especially the nicer bathrooms!}, I have to admit that I thought they went a little overboard with all of the composites everywhere. I mean a few would be okay, but they covered just about any open wall space on the second floor! One thing hadn't changed, though, and that is how the house smelled. I know that sounds weird, but there is just a distinctive smell about the house that was still there. It isn't a bad smell; just a smell that I remembered from 10 years ago!
We had some time to catch up at the house before heading out. Mary Ruffin and I were excited to be back in the room we shared for the two years we lived in the house {but we were both glad we were only in those twin beds on the sleeping porch for two nights!}.

roomies

After a yummy dinner at Chuck.s Fish, we decided to go out for a little while. It had been a LONG time since any of us had had something like this on the backs of our hands:

What started out as going out for a few drinks, wound up keeping us out entertaining the piano players at the piano bar until the bar we went to closed at 1:00! At that point, it was way, way past my bedtime so I opted to go back to the house with a few of the girls, while the rest made another stop!
I headed back home on Saturday morning after a relaxing few hours at the spa with everyone, so I missed many of the girls who came just for Saturday night. I hated to miss seeing folks, but I loved getting to catch up with those I saw! It's amazing to me how much and how little can change in 10 years!