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Back from My Pensacola Adventure

So. That was interesting. For starters, as you already know, I didn't know about going to Florida until the day before. Secondly, I didn't know I was staying in an actual dorm (not a hotel room with Aunty and Uncle like I thought) until 10 minutes after arriving! Yeah. I was a guest student for the weekend and slept in a dorm room with my cousin's girl friend and her two room mates.
Ryan's girlfriend, Meghan, is so nice. I just love her. She has a great sense of humor and is so easy to talk to and get along with. I love her. :)
Pensacola is, um, nice...? Haha, no, it was actually pretty nice there. If you can ignore all the weird rules that seem, no, that ARE, a little overly conservative, it is actually a really get college. There is a Bible Manuscript room with all these old Bibles and such. So incredible. They had the tiniest Bible's EVER, scrolls, a shofar, and other neat things. They had Bibles in a whole bunch of different languages, as well. That was really neat.
We went to the last two speakers of the missions conference - they were amazing speakers. And the last one was really funny. I enjoyed singing all the old hymns, too. Some of them I remember liking back when I was little.
We went to the beach on Saturday. The sand is so white!
We went on a PCC tour and I met a kindred spirit. Our tour guide is also in love with pirates. Real pirates, not movie pirates. I think I heard just as much about pirates on the tour than about PCC. :)
I tried some interesting food - frog's legs, coffee (which I actually liked - sorry mom and dad), alligator burger and *dramatic dun dun dun* cafeteria food.
Yeah, that's the main overview of my Florida trip. One other random thing: We went up to the Social Hall aka the 'dating room' and the opposite genders have to use different stair wells. To get to the dating room. Uh... While we were up there I taught everyone how to play Dutch Blitz - they had never played it before! Criminals! For shame.
I'm glad the driving part is over now, however I have the flight to look forward to tomorrow. I can't believe the Texas portion of the trip is basically over now. There is no way it flew by that quickly. No way.

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