Clues Before Christmas

It's only November 9 and I'm already tempted to be in the holiday spirit.  But I know that if I cave, I'll get sick of Christmas before the season truly begins.  Still, it's really difficult when I see holiday commercials on TV and hear Christmas music in the office.

Before the holidays can really hit, though, I have one major roadblock.  Finals.  And all the crazy preparation, papers and presentations that precede finals.  Just this week alone it seems that all the teachers are trying to jam everything in before Thanksgiving break.  I'm going to be running around with a chicken with its head cut off by next week.


My last glimpse of sanity took place this weekend.  On Saturday I had the chance to spend the day with my sister eating junk food and watching movies.  Then on Sunday a group of girls from my sorority met up with our sister chapter at UMKC to go on a photo scavenger hunt at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.  I love the Nelson as it is - like with the Plaza, we Rockhurst students are so fortunate to have something so amazing close by!  At the museum, we all broke off in teams of two and looked for everything on the scavenger hunt list.  The list contained items such as an orange light switch, a diner with many reflections, corn with butter, and a real armor for a horse.  The team that came up with the most pictures in the end won a $30 gift card to Chipotle.  Chipotle is a pretty big deal around campus, so the stakes were high.

Once the hunt was over, we all went outside (it was strangely and wonderfully beautiful out for November!) and took a group picture by the shuttlecocks on the front lawn.