This evening we enjoyed dinner with Kacey, Joe and baby Triton. Kacey and I go way back to 2001 where we were immediate roommates at Bethel University (then Bethel College). We were both transfer students so rooming together worked out great. We lived with four other girls in J2 who already knew each other and who also welcomed us in with open arms.
2001-2002 was our sophomore year of college and forever that year will be ingrained in my memory as a year rich in....memories....if that makes sense. I transferred there in the first place because I didn't like St. Thomas. I basically went to college thinking that it would be like the movies; dorm room door always open, best friends with the whole floor and always something to do on the weekends. Let's just say the floor I lived on was on south campus (a HIKE away from all of the action), top floor (which was supposedly haunted) and, from what I heard, was the floor with the highest GPA. Unfortunately,I was not a part of contributing to those wonderful grades. So if you do the math (and carry the one) we had a boring floor. Our suite mate, Patricia, she was cool (we had a joining bathroom with her). She had sweet clothes and sometimes when she was gone we would try them on. I know, tacky!
I thought Bethel was the ticket to fun. I think not attending Bethel freshman year and not experiencing living on freshman hill kind of put the damper on the whole being best friend with the whole floor and always having something to do idea, but I did have a fun sophomore nonetheless.
We ate our meals at the DC (dining center), went to Vespers Sunday nights, went to chapel once in a while, TPed the boys upstairs, went running around campus late at night (with the rest of the female students), had a bike in our living room for months, and only a bike, lived above the RD (resident director) and her family who put up with our dance parties late at night (was dancing even allowed at Bethel?), made too much puppy chow and learned that too much of a good thing isn't a good thing after all, went to the spring and winter banquets and got dressed up to eat dinner and take pictures with people because, that's right, dancing was forbidden, took road trips to South Dakota, attempted to pull an allnighter, bombed my geology class (rocks aren't just for jocks!), had a bad crush on someone to the point where he approached Kacey and me at the DC and I FROZE, got over the crush, had a bubble jet printer that was super loud and super slow, downloaded songs from Napster that took days, emailed Katie numerous times a day, and still managed to transfer again...
But, a lot of those memories were shared with Kacey. Now, both of us are married with little bambinos. Where did the time go? It was yesterday that I was doing the dishes in the bathtub at J2 and now I'm washing bottles by the dozen at my own house.
I hope someday our kids have as much fun making rich memories twenty years from now as we did!
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