GYRAD

So there is this tradition at Biola called a GYRAD...or Get Your Roommate A Date (oh yes, we are so creative here!) The idea being that the entire floor of a dorm goes out on a group date and you get your roommate a date for it. All very casual (just to clarify...for any concerned Fathers who may be feeling the urge to get out their gun collections...hehe)

Well, said tradition took place Friday night to the enjoyment and excitement of all. So I got Kaitlyn a date with Jon, a guy we know from film classes, and she got me a date with Nathan, a guy I know through Torrey. Chelsea went with Barak, another Torrey guy who is in the picture. (Just a side note, I feel I need to take a moment to say how incredible the guys in Torrey are. A bunch of the girls on our floor had dates who backed out either one or two days before the GYRAD and just left them hanging. They were left without any idea of what to do...since they had already paid to go...so, thanks to phone calls from Irene and Chelsea, the Torrey guys stepped in at the last minute so these girls would not be left without dates. It was quite kind of them, since most of them had other things they could have been doing. So yeah, Torrey guys are awesome!)

Anyways...back to the GYRAD. Our theme was "Unbeleiveable" so couples were encouraged to dress up. Nathan and I went as hippies and he drove me and "Mary Poppins" and "her dear chimney sweep" in his old bug that was actually from the 70's. We went to Ripley's Believe It or Not and did a scavenger hunt....well, some groups did scavenger hunts...and others were geeks who went around reading all the signs. :)

The Museum was quite interesting....not too much that was really all that unbelievable, but put in context of the early 1900's I can see how a lot of the African tribal stuff would seem really extraordinary. I guess that with all the cultural awareness, the novelty of things like that has faded. But I learned a lot of random trivia facts...and had fun Chels and Nathan and Barak.

So for dinner we drove to In-N-Out, sat at a table across from the Greek gods (aka. Irene and Charlie...yes they actually wore bedsheets and bathrobes and looked quite godlike if i do say so myself). After that we went back to campus and watched Big Fish. I actually really liked that movie...it was an interesting way of looking at mythic truth. Except that the actor who played the dad looked a lot like my grandpa who spun tall tales and it was hard to watch him die at the end...it kinda brought that whole experience back, so I just didn't watch.

After that Nathan and I went over to the game night Milton was hosting and I played Halo with the guys for a while (Bryant said my cool points went up just for playing...even though i got slaughtered). Then Nathan left for word as some of the girls I knew showed up, so I hung out with them for a while. Went on a musical walk around campus with Brian and Bethany...and finally went to bed. All in all...a good day was had.